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Voddie Baucham - Can The Bible Be Scientifically Proven? · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Here's another one. And I just have to admit, I
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  Speaker 1: like it when people use this one. Because there's part
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  Speaker 1: of me that, you know, I don't like to talk
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  Speaker 1: about in Sunday school. His name is Bad Vody. Try
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  Speaker 1: to let him out at least once a week late
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  Speaker 1: at night when nobody's around. He loves this one. When
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  Speaker 1: people say, you believe that Bible, but I'm a man
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  Speaker 1: of science. And unless you can prove it to me scientifically,
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  Speaker 1: I just can't believe that. See, at that moment, I
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  Speaker 1: try to grab on the bad votey and hold him
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  Speaker 1: real tight and not let him go. Because I know
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  Speaker 1: what he'll do if I let him go. He won't
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  Speaker 1: be Christian. He just won't. Sometimes I think he's not
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  Speaker 1: even saved because of the stuff that he wants to say.
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  Speaker 1: Look at him and he say something like this. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: you don't even deserve to remain in this argument, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you stay in the argument because
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to like what's about to happen to you
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  Speaker 1: because intellectually, I'm about to beat you like a tied
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  Speaker 1: up goat. So hold on right where you are. All right.
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  Speaker 1: How are you going to sit here and tell me
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  Speaker 1: you're a man of science and you'd believe it if
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  Speaker 1: I proved it to you scientifically? Why do you want
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  Speaker 1: me to use the scientific method? Do you not realize
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  Speaker 1: that you don't use the scientific method on historical events?
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  Speaker 1: That proves you don't even deserve to be in the argument.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the scientific method. In order to use the scientific method,
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  Speaker 1: something has to be observable, measurable, and repeatable. Folks, you
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  Speaker 1: can't use the scientific method to prove that George Washington
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  Speaker 1: was our first president. Why? Because his presidency is not observable, measurable,
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  Speaker 1: and repeatable. See, they messed around. Let me go to school.
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  Speaker 1: You don't use the scientific method there. You have to
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  Speaker 1: use a more evidentiary method there. So what you do
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  Speaker 1: is like what we do in a courtroom. You say,
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  Speaker 1: do we have any eyewitnesses? Well, I just told you
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  Speaker 1: we got some of those. Do the eyewitnesses tell the
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  Speaker 1: same story? Yep. Friday dead, Sunday risen. They say something's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen and it happens exactly the way they said.
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  Speaker 1: You see, we have no external evidence that would argue
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  Speaker 1: against the Bible's claim to be the word of God. None.
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  Speaker 1: So the real intelligent thing to do is to believe
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  Speaker 1: what it says. So I don't choose to believe the
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  Speaker 1: Bible just because I was raised that way. I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't choose to believe the Bible just because I
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  Speaker 1: tried it and it works for me. I choose to
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  Speaker 1: believe the Bible. Now say this with me, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: because it is a reliable collection of historical documents written
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  Speaker 1: down by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. They
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  Speaker 1: report supernatural events that took place in fulfillment of specific
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  Speaker 1: prophecies and claim that their writings are divine rather than
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  Speaker 1: human in origin. I told you I wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: three things. Number one, I wanted to answer this question.
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  Speaker 1: that I believe is a pertinent question in our culture
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  Speaker 1: that we have to be able to answer. It's a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate question that deserves a legitimate answer. Secondly, I told
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  Speaker 1: you I wanted to make an observation. Pastors in the room,
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  Speaker 1: listen to me. I just shared an expository sermon. I
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  Speaker 1: preached the text in its context. I did not try
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  Speaker 1: to be more creative than God. It's what I like
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  Speaker 1: to call expository apologetics. The Bible says, answers every relevant question.
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  Speaker 1: All scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting,
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  Speaker 1: training in righteousness. All of it. His divine power has
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  Speaker 1: given us everything we need for life and godliness through
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  Speaker 1: our knowledge of him who called us by his own
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  Speaker 1: glory and excellence. Here's what I'm worried about. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us who believe in the inerrancy of scripture,
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  Speaker 1: but some of us don't preach like we believe in
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  Speaker 1: the sufficiency of scripture. Don't let anybody tell you that
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  Speaker 1: exposition is a thing of the past. I hope I
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  Speaker 1: didn't bore you because a lot of people say exposition
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  Speaker 1: is boring. I hope you weren't bored. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people say exposition is irrelevant. I believe I just answered
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  Speaker 1: what I would argue is the most relevant question that
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  Speaker 1: our culture is asking and did it verse by verse,
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  Speaker 1: precept upon precept, line upon line, which brings me to
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  Speaker 1: the third thing, and that's the challenge. We have got
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  Speaker 1: to teach the people of God Number one, that the
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  Speaker 1: Bible has the answer. And number two, how to learn
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  Speaker 1: it and give it. Anybody who can memorize this passage
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  Speaker 1: of scripture in its context can learn how to give
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  Speaker 1: the answer that I just gave you. Anybody, anybody. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: that's why we wrote the ever-loving truth. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: wrote the ever-loving truth Bible study. That's what it's all about,
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  Speaker 1: for people to get this message. into their minds so
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  Speaker 1: that when somebody asks them a question, like, why do
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  Speaker 1: you choose to believe the Bible? They don't have to
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  Speaker 1: fumble around and hymn in the hall. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: to give some lame answer like, you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: raised that way or I tried it and it works
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  Speaker 1: for me. They can look people in the eye, like
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  Speaker 1: a young lady from Dartmouth College where I was teaching this,
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  Speaker 1: who looked a science professor of hers in the eye
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  Speaker 1: and for the first time in her life felt confident
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  Speaker 1: enough to speak up in the classroom. and looked at
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  Speaker 1: him and said, well, sir, I choose to believe the
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  Speaker 1: Bible because it's a reliable collection of historical documents written
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  Speaker 1: down by eyewitnesses during the lifetime of other eyewitnesses. They
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  Speaker 1: report supernatural events that took place in fulfillment of specific
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  Speaker 1: prophecies and claim that their writings are divine rather than
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  Speaker 1: human in origin. And by the way, if you want to,
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  Speaker 1: you can put some gravy on top of it. I
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  Speaker 1: tried it. Worked for me.