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History & Heritage of
Session Seven: The Evidence and Alternatives
An Experiential Exegesis of
Your Trouble with the Truth
Truth is
always the
same old
thing
An Experiential Exegesis of
Your Trouble with the Truth
Truth is
always the
same old
thing
Truth is just
what you
need to hear
An Experiential Exegesis of
Your Trouble with the Truth
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Point 1
The deep things of
God are only found
when you have the
true word of God.
Truth is
always the
same old
thing
Truth ruins
the taste of
your
sweetest lies
Truth is just
what you
need to hear
An Experiential Exegesis of
Your Trouble with the Truth
Truth is
always the
same old
thing
Truth ruins
the taste of
your
sweetest lies
Truth is just
what you
need to hear
An Experiential Exegesis of
Your Trouble with the Truth
Truth just
wont let
you rest
Thesis
The truth is, when you
bring your own strength
into the work of God,
God always stops working.
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Types & Shadows in 1 Sam 14
Jonathan = the new man we are in
Jesus Christ
Saul = the old man, and because he
is in unbelief about the true word
of God he never knows what to do
OF SCRIBES AND SCROLLS
OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT
INITIALLY PRESERVED by Levitical
priests, Deut 17:18; 31:24
INITIALLY PRESERVED by the Holy Spirit,
John 16:13
SUBSEQUENTLY PRESERVED by
priests who were scribes, Ezra
7:6,10
SUBSEQUENTLY PRESERVED by the
priesthood of believers, 1 Tim 6:14,20;
2 Cor 2:17; 2 Thes 2:15; 2 Tim 1:13
PRESENTLY PRESERVED in the
Masoretic Text & Reformation
translations, Rom 3:1
PRESENTLY PRESERVED in the Received
Greek Text & Reformation
translations, Acts 11:26

OF SCRIBES AND SCROLLS
OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT
INITIALLY PRESERVED by Levitical
priests, Deut 17:18; 31:24
INITIALLY PRESERVED by the Holy Spirit,
John 16:13
SUBSEQUENTLY PRESERVED by
priests who were scribes, Ezra
7:6,10
SUBSEQUENTLY PRESERVED by the
priesthood of believers, 1 Tim 6:14,20;
2 Cor 2:17; 2 Thes 2:15; 2 Tim 1:13
PRESENTLY PRESERVED in the
Masoretic Text & Reformation
translations, Rom 3:1
PRESENTLY PRESERVED in the Received
Greek Text & Reformation
translations, Acts 11:26

QUEEN ELIZABETH
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Evidence of Gods Hand in History
Psa. 12:6-7 The words of
the LORD are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace
of earth, puried seven
times. Thou shalt keep
them, O LORD, thou shalt
preserve them from this
generation for ever.
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The Wycliffe Bible
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Psa. 12:6-7 The words of
the LORD are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace
of earth, puried seven
times. Thou shalt keep
them, O LORD, thou shalt
preserve them from this
generation for ever.
AD 1382
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William Tyndale, priest and
Oxford scholar, translates the
New Testament from Greek
into English (AD 1526), but
cannot get approval to publish
it in England.
AD 1526
1. Tyndales Bible
1. Tyndales Bible, 1526
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The Coverdale Bible is
translated by Miles Coverdale
(AD 1535) and dedicated to
Anne Boleyn, one of
King Henry VIIIs wives.
This is the rst complete Bible
printed in English.
AD 1535
2. Coverdales Bible

2. Coverdales Bible, 1535
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AD 1537
3. Matthews Bible
Printed just a year after Tyndales death, Matthews
New Testament relies heavily on Tyndales version.
As a tribute to him, on the last page of the
Old Testament, Tyndales
initials are printed in
2.5 inch block letters.
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3. Matthews Bible, 1537
John Rogers
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In AD 1539, the Great Bible is
placed in every church by
order of Thomas Cranmer,
archbishop under King Henry
VIII. It is read aloud except
during services and sermons.
AD 1539
4. The Great Bible
(Cranmers Bible)
4. The Great Bible, 1539
Thomas
Cranmer
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Exiles from England ee to
Geneva, Switzerland. In
AD 1560, they print the
Geneva Bible, a complete
revision of the Great Bible with
the Old Testament translated
from Hebrew.
AD 1560
5. The Geneva Bible
5. The Geneva Bible, 1560
John Calvin
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The translation of the Bishops
Bible begins under Queen
Elizabeth in AD 1568. It is
translated by fteen bishops of
the Church of England.
AD 1568
6. The Bishops Bible
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Douay-Rheims Bible
The Douay-Rheims is translated
into English from the Latin Vulgate
by the English Catholic, Gregory
Martin, in France (AD 1582/1609).

It becomes the standard English
translation for Roman Catholics.
AD 1582
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6. The Bishops Bible, 1602
Matthew Parker
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For seven years, six teams of scholars use
the Textus Receptus, Masoretic Text,
Bishops Bible, prior English versions, the
Spanish Reina-Valera and other foreign-
language translations to complete the new
version in AD 1611.
AD 1611
7. King James Bible
In 1604 King James I commissions 54 scholars to under-
take a new Bible translation.
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7. King James Bible, 1611
The AlternativesGreek Texts
A relative text, not an absolute text
A fully postmodern text made (up)
by five unsaved men
We receive a text that is not the
Received Text
We have to second-guess God, and
say the Holy Spirit failed us!
The AlternativesTranslations
A multiplicity of words, not one true
word
A patchwork Bible not a purified Bible
We have to be our own detectives, and
cant be just devoted
We deny the evidence of Gods hand
in history!
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Two Seeds
Two Greek Texts
Two Lines of Bibles
Two Philosophies
of Translating
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If you come to God with
a conclusion already, then
you will not be ready
when God contradicts that
conclusion.
Point 2
The same as when you
choose to believe
CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION
MIRACLES ACTUALLY OCCURRED
PREDICTIVE PROPHECY
THE BIBLE ACCURATELY DESCRIBES HISTORY
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