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A few days ago I addressed one of the objection I received from a Muslim critic who sent me a barrage of questions, assaulting the credibility of the Bible. I told him that I was going to answer his objections one at a time, and today I’m dealing with part 2. Here is what he said “The Bible & the Torah express originally in Hebrew with Aramaic in some parts. Quran express originally in Arabic. Can translation of the word of God be taken as word of God? Translation is the work of man. The fact that there are so many translations & revised edition of the Bible but Quran only in one language (Arabic). English itself indicate that translations is subject to human errors. Now let us frankly ask ourselves. What is the source Book of our beliefs system? The original word from God or word has been translated, revised numerous times? If the latter is the reality than it is also a reality that translations are opened to flaws. Logical and truthful please.
Basically he is arguing that since the Bible has been translated so many times in different languages over the course of many years, then it can no longer be trusted as the word of God. So I’ll be addressing this today
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hello good morning this is ts.com if you
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standing on my screen right now you're
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going to read answering the Muslim
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critic part two is the Bible corrupted
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so a week and some change ago I shared a
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post on my uh Channel and I talked about
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why as people we can't see God with our
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eyes and I gave the reasons why and this
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guy uh sent me a barrage of questions
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and actually he was assaulting the
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Integrity of scriptures saying that the
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Bible was not the word of God and he
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gave me a lot of objections so I told
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him I'm going to answer your objections
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one at a time and the first one that I
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did was um he questioned the genealogy
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of Jesus he said that Matthew and Luke
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had different account and there was a
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contradiction so therefore that was not
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the word of God so I address that in my
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first uh video so if you want to see it
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I will have a link for you in the
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description and today I'm going to talk
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about another thing he said the Bible is
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corrupted because there are so many
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translations and um he said for example
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here's what here's what he wrote like he
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said to me the Bible and the Torah
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Express originally in Hebrew with
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Aramaic in some portions and Quran
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expressed originally in Arabic can
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translation of the word of God be taken
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as the word of God translation is the
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work of man the fact that there are so
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many translations and revised edition of
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The Bible but Quran only in one language
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Arabic English itself s indicate that
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translations is subject to human errors
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now let us frankly ask ourselves what is
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the Source book of our belief system the
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original word from God or word that has
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been translated revised numerous times
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if the latter is the reality then it is
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also a reality that translations are
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open to flaws logical and truthful
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please basically he's arguing that
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science that since the Bible has been
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translated so many times in different
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languages over the course of many years
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it can no longer be trusted as the word
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of God so I mean when I first read this
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thing I kind of laughed a little because
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I'm like this is kind of sad because
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he's saying that because man translated
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the scriptures in different languages no
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so therefore it's no longer the word of
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God so actually my uh my dad and mom
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they don't speak English I mean they do
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speak but it's like they don't speak
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English they we from Togo so they speak
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French so when they call to speak to my
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kids I have to be the translator right I
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translate what they telling me in in
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English to my kids cuz they're speaking
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French to me and I got to tell them my
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kids that hey this is what he's saying
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in in French so does that mean that I
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lose the meaning of the message of
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course not because I'm translating it so
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what you really need to attack is the
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Integrity of the translator the one that
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is translating it so now he's telling me
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that the Quran was written in Arabic and
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therefore because it has not been
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translated so therefore it is the word
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of God first of all uh it's kind of
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funny because whever is translating or
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whever is receiving that message can
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also choose to say hey this is what I
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heard but this is what I'm going to
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write right so it doesn't matter the
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translation doesn't matter is the
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messenger that matters the Integrity of
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the messenger because the messenger can
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say hey I heard this in Arabic but I'm
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going to say this so it doesn't the
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translation really has no bearings at
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all again that's a basic argument but I
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want to actually go and show you why the
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text the text of scripture can be
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trusted so I don't want to give like
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basic argument actually want to go
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through a series of steps to show you
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that so let's jump into that look at the
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dead SE Scrolls and the Old Testament
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so what and the D Scrolls reveal about
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the Old Testament that we have today
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that's very important to understand now
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the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in
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1947 a herdsman found some unusual clay
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jars in caves near the Valley of the
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Dead Sea and the jars contained like a
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number of Scrolls revealing the
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religious beliefs of monastic farmers
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lived in the Valley from 150 BC to ad 17
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to
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ad70 and the Desy Scrolls contain uh
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fragments of almost every book of the
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Old Testament and most importantly a
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complete copy of the book of Isaiah now
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this scroll was dated to approximately
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100 BC and a comparison of the kumran
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manuscripts of Isaiah listen to this
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proved to be word for word identical
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with our standard Hebrew Bible in more
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than
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95% of the text and someone would say
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well that's still the 5% what about the
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5% you said 95% what about the 5% here's
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the thing the 5% differences were simply
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a matter of spelling like you might
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experience when using the word favor or
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favor with o
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Ur and finally some somewhere addition
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of a word for the sake of clarity like
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the the addition of the the Hebrew word
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for light to the end of verse
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531 in Isaiah 5311 following they shall
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see the light so none of these
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grammatical variations changed the
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meaning of the text in any way in other
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words there was no there was no
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doctrinal change so the meaning of the
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text did not change because favor was
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spelled f a v o r instead of f a v o you
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R okay maybe the scribes might have been
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slipping that one time I don't know what
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he was doing and maybe he misspelled a a
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a a a word that does not change the
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Integrity of the meaning of the text and
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you need to understand why because what
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compelled the ancient scribes to treat
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these documents with such precisions and
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meticulous care it was clearly their
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belief that the document were themselves
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sacred and given to them by God so when
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they wrote those scriptures and copied
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for the next generation and the Next
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Generation they scribes I mean it was
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rigorous work and if you really want to
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know what the scribes and a scribe was
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like I will encourage you I'll give you
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a video maybe I I'll put it up here that
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you can go and watch to see how rigorous
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nobody could just be a scribed you had
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to be trained to be a scribe so people
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don't understand how serious these
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people took this job and why is that
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important it means that the content kept
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its Integrity 2,000 years did not change
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the content at all because the scribes
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understood that these verses and these
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sacred words were sacred that and they
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were passing it on to the next
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generation and they dared not temper
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with the text this is important okay the
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Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in
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1947 and the content that we saw was
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pretty much word for word for what we
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have today so there is no variation at
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all as far as the meaning of the text
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okay so the doctrine has not changed the
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message is the same there might be
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spelling misspelling of certain words
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but that did not change the content and
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the meaning of the text I want you to
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get that now let's talk about the New
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Testament let's do
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that the New Testament see the New
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Testament was originally composed in the
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Greek
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language and there are approximately 55
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5,500 copies in existence that contain
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all or part of of the New Testament we
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don't have the originals we don't have
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the originals of the New Testament okay
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I want you to understand that we only
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have copies but the copies exist from a
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very early date see the New Testament
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was written about 50 to 90 ad and the
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earliest fragment dates about ad 120
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with about 150 other fragment dating
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between 150 and 200 years from the time
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of composition so between the time he
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was comp poos the original and the
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copies is about 150 to 250 years so some
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people may say well that's a lot of
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years but you need to understand some
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things I'm going to show you a couple of
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things here you need to compare what we
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have about the New Testament and other
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ancient writings okay for example the
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earliest copy of Caesar's the garlic
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Wars it dates about a th000 years after
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it was written okay the earliest copy we
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have in a manre is about a th000 years
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removed from the original
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yet nobody ever question the stories of
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Caesar that we've heard okay and the
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first copy of the Ary by Homer dates
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about 2200 years after it was written
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and again nobody questions those things
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and when the interval between the the
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writing of the New Testament and earlier
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copies is compared to other ancient
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works the New Testament proves to be
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much closer to the time of the original
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which is between 200 and 250 years this
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is incredible okay now there's other
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thing that you need to understand the
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5,500 copies are far any way the most we
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have of any ancient work because of why
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the more manuscripts and more copies you
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have the easier it is to reconstruct the
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original because you can compare all
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these manuscripts and come to the truth
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what was really said because if you
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don't have many copies how can you
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compare and say Hey how do we know that
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we only have two copies here and that's
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all we have how do we know that this is
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the truth with the abundance of
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manuscripts it helps because now you can
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see all these have been scattered all
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over the places so now we can
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reconstruct the original by just looking
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at the manuscripts and the abundance of
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manuscripts okay many ancient writings
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have been transmitted to us by only a
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handful of manuscripts for example
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catalus three copies that's all and the
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earliest one is600 years after he wrote
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Herod this eight copies that's all we
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have and it and and the time when he
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wrote it was 1300 years so what you need
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to understand is this on top of that the
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New Testament was translated into
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several other languages and we have
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about 18,000 copies of those versions as
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well a lot of more copies in other
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languages so you can even go anywhere
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and find those copies and compare it so
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there's abundance of manuscript you have
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so much information that we can Recon
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reconstruct the scriptures in the
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original now the question is somewh
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someone would say to me well how can
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these copies be trusted I just gave you
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um a little bit of information but so
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what do we do like how can we know that
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this can be trusted well I'm glad you
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asked because there's something else
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that we have that maybe a lot of you
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guys don't know and this is it like the
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early church fathers the apostles they
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had disciples okay for example polycarp
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and papius they were Disciples of John
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those are the first the first uh Century
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church and in Clement of Rome was a
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student of Paul the Apostle and Paul
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Paul mentions Clement in many of his
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Epistles and why am I mentioning these
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individuals these men wrote letters to
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their various churches and they were
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also involved in great debate in which
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they quoted and cited chunk of passages
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of the New Testament and their letters
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survived to this day so this is
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incredible because you could literally
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reconstruct close to the entire New
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Testament by just reading those letters
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it's
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incredible and he was documented that uh
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John buron he has cataloged more than
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86,000 citations by the early church
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fathers who site different portion of
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the New Testament so basically you can
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destroy every Bible that you have today
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you can destroy and say away with these
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people and destroy all these scriptures
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you could really literally like
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reconstruct most of the the scripture
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the New Testament by just reading these
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letters of the early church fathers you
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can even reconstruct some of the Old
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Testament because they also quoted the
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Old Testament okay and our wish as
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Believers in our day and age like we
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will also spend time memorizing entire
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books of the Bible like the early church
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fathers because it would serve a lot of
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purpose these guys would write letters
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and you can check the early church uh
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history you can go and check to see
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their letters that their debate that
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they were involved in they used
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scriptures they quoted Paul they quote
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John they quote Peter they will quote
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Matthew in chunk of their passages just
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to show and prove a point to me it's
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incredible because even if you didn't
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have the Bible you could read those
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letters and understand the word of God
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okay and I'm going to give you more like
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this is not a new practice even the
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apostles quoted the Old Testament in
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their gospels and Epistles and to me
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that is the most undeniable proof of the
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integrity and authenticity of the New
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Testament because the apostles PR pretty
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much did what you call an exposition of
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the Old Testament in the New Testament
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they explained what the prophets wrote
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about in the Old Testament and I want us
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to go to Isaiah 53 let's go to Isaiah 53
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here and I want us to see something I'm
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going to read the entire
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passage Isaiah 53 reads who has believed
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what he has heard from us and to whom
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has the arm of the Lord been revealed
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for he grew grew up before him like a
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young plant and like a root out of the
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dry ground he had no form or Majesty
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that we should look at him and no beauty
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that we should desire him he was
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despised and rejected by man A Man of
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Sorrows and acquainted with grief and as
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one from whom men hide their faces he
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was despised and we esteemed him not
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surely he has borne our griefs and
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carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him
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stricken Smitten by God and afflicted
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but he was pierced for our
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transgressions and he was crushed for
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our iniquities upon him was the
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chastisement that brought us peace and
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with his wounds we are healed all we
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like sheep have gone astray we have
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turned everyone to his own way and the
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lord has laid on him the iniquity of us
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all he was oppressed and he was
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afflicted yet he opened not his mouth
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like a lamb that is led to the slaughter
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and like a sheep that before his Shar is
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silent so he opened not his mouth by
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oppression and judgment he was taken
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away and as for his generation who
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considered that he was cut off out of
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the land of the living streaking for the
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transgression of my people and they made
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his grave with the wicked and with a
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rich man in his death although he had
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done no violence and there was no deceit
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in his mouth yet it was the will of the
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Lord to crush him he has put him to
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grief when his soul makes an offering
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for Guilt he shall see his his Offspring
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he shall prolong his days the will of
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the Lord shall prosper in his hand out
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of the anguish of his soul he shall see
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and be
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satisfied by his knowledge shall the
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righteous one my servant make many to be
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accounted righteous and he shall bear
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their iniquities therefore I will divide
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him a portion with the many and he shall
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divide the spoiled with the strong
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because he poured out his soul to death
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and was DED with the transgressors yet
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he bore the sin of many and makes inter
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for
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transgressors so my thing is this if you
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truly understood the new test Old
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Testament you would never question the
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authenticity of the New Testament
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because all the New Testament came to do
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was to do an exposition of the Old
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Testament basically reveal what these
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scriptures meant the apostles spend
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their time proving that Jesus was the
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Christ by quoting and quoting Time and
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Time and Again the old Testament and if
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you truly understood the Old Testament
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you will never question the New
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Testament to me it's like it's an easy
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proof because if you truly understood
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the text of scripture when you read
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Isaiah 53 you knew that this was
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pointing to Jesus he was me for our
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transgressions he's going to make many
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righteous by his death and by his wound
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we are healed the punishment that
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brought of spe was upon him I mean who
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is who is Isaiah talking about he was
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crushed for our iniquities they pierced
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him I mean everything points to Jesus so
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how can I
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question that if you truly understood
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the Old Testament you will never
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question the New Testament because the
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old is in the new revealed and the new
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is in the old
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concealed so the text of scripture of
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the New Testament is absolutely
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authentic because not in my eyes but
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because of the text of script scripture
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of the Old Testament basically is a
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continuation of the Old Testament the
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New Testament basically proves what the
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Old Testament was saying so there is no
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questioning so to me I don't even have I
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don't have this Fe like oh what if you
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were lie to no
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never yes I might have my share of Doubt
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sometimes but when you go back to the
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Old Testament you understand the message
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when you read the letters of Paul you
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read the Epistles of Paul you read first
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Peter second Peter you read 1 John 3rd
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John John chapter 1 everything if you
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read the Matthew's gospel Luke's gospel
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you understand that every Old Testament
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prophecy was fulfilled in the new most
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of it you can see the continuation you
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can see that the Old Testament was
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pointed to Jesus so there is no
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questioning the Integrity of the text
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you know people actually believe the Old
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Testament Muslims believe the Old
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Testament so it's like how can you miss
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it do read the whole thing to truly
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understand okay so to me there is no
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question at all because if you truly
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understood the old the new would just
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give you
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peace now create doubt where he give you
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peace now I can answer his question with
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a B basic argument he's saying that
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translations corrupt the original text
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which is really to me a little asine
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because from the way he wrote I can see
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that he's not a native English speaker
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just like me I'm not a native English
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speaker yet he uses the English language
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to communicate with me does that mean
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that what he's saying to me can't be
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trusted because he's using English and
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not Arabic I mean you see it's like
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Point your gun into your ho and then
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boom it's like come on man now here's
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what I'll
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say that even shows me because the Bible
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has been translated in so many languages
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it shows me that whoever translated it
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cared so so much about the message that
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they wanted the whole world to hear it
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because they said this is good news the
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gospel so we want every living being to
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hear this message of the truth so
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therefore we're going to make sure it is
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publicized and translated in as many
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language as possible or in every
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language this to me is incredible
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because here's the thing if I'm going to
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China and I'm going to preach to Chinese
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people if I'm going to Taiwan if I'm
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going to Germany if I'm going to any
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other country I need to make sure they
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hear the message in their language
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because they don't speak what I speak
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you can't go to a a group of people that
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speaks German and start preaching to
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them in English they're not going to
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hear you you got to you got to learn
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their language or you got to translate
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the text of scripture in their language
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so they can read it and understand it so
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to me those that did the translations
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kudos to them because they care so much
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about this good news that they say
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we got to make sure everybody hears this
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in their language we got to make sure we
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publicize as many copies in as many
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different languages possible because
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this is the truth this is the truth we
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want everybody to hear it so keeping the
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scripture in one language and say well
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if you want to learn about God then you
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have to you have to learn
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Hebrew I mean if you want to learn about
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God then you have to learn the Greek
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language come on if you want to learn
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about God guess what we're going to
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translate it in your language so we make
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sure it gets to you that's the love of
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the translators they understood how much
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God loved the world and they said we're
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going to make sure everybody going to
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hear this message in their language
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we're not going to keep it in Hebrew
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we're not going to keep it in in Aramaic
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we're not going to keep it in Greek but
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we're going to make sure French English
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German Arabic uh farsy um you name it
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Spanish every language is going to get
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the scripture in their own language
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because we care so much about those
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people that we want them to hear this
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beautiful message of the
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Gospel so the translations actually
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amplifies the truth of the Gospel it
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doesn't diminish it it doesn't corrupt
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it it amplifies the the message it gives
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the weight of the message because people
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want other people to hear
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it by the way I just wanted to end with
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this I know that no matter how I present
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this
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argument many people people may reject
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it because what it is not up to me to
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change your heart scripture says no one
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can come to Jesus unless drawn by the
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spirit of God unless God the Father
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draws him so it is the work of the
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spirit but why do I do these
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things I do it because I believe maybe
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the Lord is going to use this to speak
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to you I can't change you maybe the
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Lord's going to use me as the messenger
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to give you this message
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and also I want to let you know if you
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have been encouraged by these messages
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please do support t.com because I
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started t.com for the sake of answering
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difficult questions and talking about
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these kind of tough topics and the Lord
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has endowed me with this kind of ability
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to do this so if you feel like you've
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been led to support this please do so
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today because this whole thing is run by
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myself the website everything that I
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write is just oneman operation now I'm
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not saying one man in the sense that I'm
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just solo and I'm doing this alone no
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because scripture also says it is God
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who works in me both to Will and act
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according to his good purpose so I
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believe God grace empowers me to do what
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I do so if you believe this has helped
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you and you want to support do so I
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would truly appreciate it Merry
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Christmas and I'll see you next time
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thank you very much
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