The Bible is the Word of God: Internal Evidence…Summary Examples

Eyewitness Accounts“[Simon Greenleaf] is the highest authority cited in our courts”

- U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller 1888-1910

“If any ancient document concerning our public rights had been lost, copies which had been as universally received and acted upon as the four gospels have been would have been received in evidence in any of our courts, without the slightest hesitation. The entire text of the Corpus Juris Civilis (Code of Justinian) is received as authority in all the courts of Continental Europe upon much weaker evidences of genuineness”

- Simon Greenleaf 1783-1853

The Bible is the Word of God: Internal Evidence…Summary Examples

Eyewitness Accounts1 John 1:1,4 – “what we have heard, what we have seen with

our eyes, what we beheld and our hand handled…”

1 Cor. 15:3-8 – “He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of who remain until now…to James, then to all the apostles…He appeared to me also”

The Bible is the Word of God: Internal Evidence…Summary Examples

Legal Testimony“I have never, to my recollection, seen a case in which judges

were not convinced of the truth of the Gospel, where they have attended meetings, in the revivals which I have witnessed. I have often been very much affected, in conversion with members of the legal profession, by the manner which they would consent to propositions to which person of ill disciplined minds would have objected…Indeed, as a general thing, they take a more intelligent view of the whole plan of salvation than any other class of men to whom I have ever preached or with whom I have ever conversed.”

- Charles G. Finney Luke 1:1-4; 2 Peter 1:16-21

The Bible is the Word of God: Internal Evidence…Summary Examples

ProphecyIsaiah 44:28-29 – Isaiah prophecies about Cyrus (the

Great) and his decree to allow the building of Jerusalem.

Isaiah – 740 BC Cyrus – 576-530 BC Cyrus’ decree – 2 Chr. 36; Ezra 6 200 Years before the fact! Medo-Persian Empire did not even exist!

The Bible is the Word of God: Internal Evidence…Summary Examples

ProphecyDaniel 2:36, 38-40; Daniel 11:2; Daniel 11:30 – Daniel

predicts the next 4 world empires 500 years ahead of time!

Joshua 6:26 – Joshua predicts the fate of the man who attempts to rebuild Jericho

1 Kings 16:34 – prophecy fulfilled

The Bible is the Word of God: Internal Evidence…Summary Examples

ProphecyEzekiel 26:4-5, 12 – Ezekiel prophecies about the

siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander the Great.

Ezekiel– 586 BC!

Nebuchadnezzar besieged the city (585-572 BC).Alexander scraped the ruins into the sea to create

a causeway (300 BC).Today, fisherman dry their nets where the old site was.