A lecture on the Inerrancy of the Bible! How Scripture writers foreknew things that are corroborating with science. The role of Divine inspiration in the writing of the Bible and its inerrancy.

1. OBJECTIONS TO INERRANCY
IN THE BIBLE- PART I
Christian Apologetics

2. People who don’t believe in the
authority of the Bible find the idea of
Inspiration, inerrancy hard to
swallow and come up with all kinds
of arguments why they don’t have to
believe that. Here are some of the
objections that need to be
addressed.

3. The Bible doesn’t
teach inerrancy –
it is a recent
invention.

4. 1. Astonishing evidence
Scientific
foreknowledge.

5. The Bible contains accurate
scientific information about
things that the writers could not
have known.
Some of these concern fairly recent
scientific discoveries or insights, so
even a skeptic’s dating of biblical
sources can’t explain this type of
evidence away.

6. Astronomy

7. In Isaiah 40:22 we read “He sits
enthroned above the circle of the
earth”. The
Hebrew word Isaiah used for
circle is the word khug, which
means literally something
with roundness, a sphere.

8. But the people of Isaiah’s day thought
the Earth was flat– actually they did
so until the late middle ages, 2000 years
after Isaiah was written.
Later it was discovered that the Earth
was not flat; rather it was a khug.
Isaiah had been correct all along, even
when the people of his day emphatically
stated the opposite.

9. In Job 38:31,33 God asks Can
you bind the beautiful
Pleiades - can you loose the
cords of Orion? . . . Do you
know the laws of the heavens?.
For a long time people didn’t
really know what God was trying
to tell Job here.

10. Only in the 20th century
astronomers discovered details about the
stars that we see as constellations in the
sky.
And in fact, the Pleiades are just a
bunch of stars that appear to be in the
same spot in the universe – but in
reality they are extremely far away
from each other and not connected at all:
you can’t bind them together because
there are lots of other stars “in between”

13. In
contrast to that the stars in
Orion are quite close to each
other, and in fact linked in
the sense that they move along
the same path through space.

14. Oceanography

15. In Ecclesiastes 1:7 we read all
streams flow into the sea, yet the
sea is never full. To the place where the
streams come from there they return
again.
This statement, considered by itself, may not
seem profound at first glance. But when
considered with additional evidence and
other biblical passages, it becomes all the
more remarkable.

16. Ecclesiastes 11:3a states that
if the clouds be full of rain, they
empty themselves upon the
earth.
Amos 9:6b tells us that
He...calleth for the waters of
the sea, and poureth them out
upon the face of the earth; the
Lord is His name.

17. What is explained here is what
science calls the hydrologic
cycle: water is dumped
into the ocean, condenses
into clouds, which bring rain
mostly to the mountains, from
where the water then flows back
into rivers and into the oceans.

18. The idea of a complete water cycle
was not fully understood or
accepted until the 16th and 17th CE.
The first substantial evidence came from
experiments of Pierre Perrault and
Edme Mariotte.
More that 2,000 years prior to their
work, however, the Scriptures
had indicated a water cycle.

19. God told Noah in Genesis 6:15 to build
an ark that measured 300 cubits in
length, 50 cubits in width, and 30 cubits
in height.
This is a ratio of 30 to 5 to 3, length to
breadth to height. Until approximately
1858 the ark was the largest seagoing
vessel of which we have any written
record.

20. As it turns out, the dimensions 30:5:3 are
the perfect ratio
for a huge boat build for seaworthiness
and not for speed.
In fact, shipbuilders during World War II
used that 30:5:3 ratio to build the boat that
eventually was nicknamed the ugly
duckling a barge-like boat built to carry
tremendous amounts of cargo. It had the
same ratio as the ark.

21. How did Noah know the
perfect seagoing ratio to use in
building the ark?
Upon whose
knowledge did he draw?
Brunnel and others like him had
many generations of shipbuilding
knowledge upon which to draw, but
Noah s literally was the first of its
kind.

22. Medicine
&
Foods

23. Moses told the Israelites (Leviticus
17:11-14) that the life of the flesh is
in the blood. He was correct.
Because the red blood cells can
carry oxygen (due to hemoglobin
in the cells) life is made possible. We
know today that the life of the
flesh is in the blood. But we
didn’t know that 200 years ago.

24. Think of how often blood
transfusions have made life
possible for those who otherwise
would have died.
Today we know the truth of the
matter.
How did the biblical writer
know it?

25. While the Old Testament placed
no restrictions on the eating of
fruits and vegetables,
severe limitations were given for
the eating of certain meats.

26. Among land animals, only those that had a
split hoof and chewed the cud were
approved as edible (Leviticus 11:3).
Of the water-living animals, only those with
fins and scales were acceptable (Leviticus
11:9; of interest is the fact that poisonous fish
have no scales).
Birds of prey were prohibited, as were almost
all insects.

27. Perhaps the best known among
these biblical injunctions was
eating the meat of a
pig.
To the Jew, pork was considered
unclean, and thus was inedible.
Today, we know there is good
scientific reasoning behind such a
prohibition.

28. The pig is a scavenger and
will eat almost anything.
In so doing, on occasion it ingests the
parasite, Trichinella
spiralis, which is the cause of
trichinosis in humans.
Left untreated, this disease can
be debilitating and even deadly.

29. Pigs also are known carriers of
the tapeworm Taenia
solium, and of the parasite
Echinococcus granulosis,
which causes tumors in the
liver, lungs, and other parts of
the body.

30. Hygiene

31. In Deuteronomy 23:12-14, Moses
instructed the Israelites always to bury
human waste products.
Today, of course, with centuries of experience
behind us, we know that this is an excellent
sanitary hygienic practice.
But the common course of action in Moses
day, and for centuries to follow, was to dump
waste products in any convenient place.

32. History has recorded the folly of this kind of
action. In Europe, during the Middle
Ages, Black Plague swept over the continent
on two different occasions, slaughtering
more than 13 million people in the process.
Europeans routinely dumped waste of all
kinds out their windows and into the public
streets where decomposition took place
and microorganisms flourished.

33. It is evident
1. SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
2. OCEANOGRAPHY
3. ASTORNOMY
4. HYGIENE
are completely out of their time
thinking which gives us clear evidence
that it is divinely inspired