Bible course (5 mins.): lffi lesson 03 introduction and points 1-3 (th lec. 4).
PUBLISHER: Good afternoon Juan. How are you? Ready for today's lesson?
STUDENT: Good afternoon Alberto. Very good, how are you? I'm ready, I was waiting to connect to the video call, so I'm looking forward to it.
PUBLISHER: Perfect Juan, I'm glad you come with enthusiasm, we're going to see very interesting things. I'm fine too. Today we are going to start with lesson 3. Have you taken a look at it?
STUDENT: Yes, it's about whether we can trust what the Bible tells us and the promises it makes to us, how can we be sure that we can trust them.
PUBLISHER: Well, and this lesson is because the Bible is very extensive as you know… and there is a lot of advice and promises. Both past, present and future… How can we be sure of everything the Bible says?
STUDENT: Well, yes, it's like books... they usually have errors or misprints as they are called...
PUBLISHER: But the Bible is a very different book…because it comes from God…isn't it amazing that it was written so many years ago and is still so useful today?
STUDENT: Actually yes. There are people who have written books that have been very important, but they remain there with the passage of time... the Bible is still consulted by many people, now I have begun to study it, for example...
PUBLISHER: The power of God is seen in his written Word... and it is even more impressive to see how it was written by dozens of different men, from different times and over hundreds of years... and do you know the most spectacular?
STUDENT: What Alberto?
PUBLISHER: That none of its writers contradicts or repeats or writes something that is not useful... that is, because although there have been many writers, the Bible only has one author...
STUDENT: Yes, it is God… as you have told me, God used men to write it… but everything comes from Him… so there are no errors and as you say… there are no contradictions…
PUBLISHER: For all this and more, we see that the answer to the first questions of the first paragraph is affirmative. We can trust the Bible, even if it is old and yes, it is very useful for our days because the author is God as you have said… and what does he want for us?
STUDENT: Well, I would tell you to guide us in life so that we are happy and have fewer problems, among other things.
PUBLISHER: Very good Juan. Among other things, yes, the Bible guides us and if we allow ourselves to be guided by it and trust what it says… of course we will have cleaner, happier lives without so many problems. We are going to go little by little unraveling what we have commented at the beginning, about whether we can trust the Bible...
STUDENT: With the first question, right? The first point I say, if what the Bible says really happened?
PUBLISHER: Exactly. Many things happened, in fact, the Bible recounts many ancient events, in the end it is history… we were not there, so… How can we be sure that what it says is true? Let's read Ecclesiastes 12:10 which is quoted in the paragraph.
STUDENT: It says, “The congregator tried to find nice words and to write words of truth exactly.”
PUBLISHER: Well, thanks Juan. This text together with those of Luke 1:3 and 3:1,2 that are quoted here also tells us that everything was written studying the veracity of all events, so that each word was written with the utmost rigor. What does this translate to?
STUDENT: Well, as it says here at the end of the paragraph... that researchers, historians, and archaeologists have accurately confirmed these data: the dates, the characters, the places, and the important events mentioned in the Bible.
PUBLISHER: That's right, many events are still being investigated and some have recently been corroborated... which shows us that the Bible is never wrong and we can trust what it says. Which is precisely the question of point number two.
STUDENT: Yes, and the paragraph comments on what you just said. That many things are still being investigated today and confirming what the Bible says.
PUBLISHER: Yes, as the paragraph says, the Bible was written ahead of its time, and even for ours. It has taken many years for science to discover things that the Bible already said but that society did not believe possible. Pure or natural science also proves that the Bible is accurate.
STUDENT: I suppose you mean what you told me that the Bible already said that the Earth was spherical and floated in space.
PUBLISHER: Exactly Juan, very good. And it is that, as Psalm 111:8 says here. The Bible does not usually talk about natural science, but when it does, it is trustworthy and accurate for eternity. Since these natural laws do not change.
STUDENT: It is impressive how these men wrote about these things without being researchers...
PUBLISHER: It was possible because… you know the answer, all of these instructions came from the greatest researcher that ever lived… our Creator of all things, God. He has done it all, so… as point 3 says… can we trust what the Bible says about the future?
STUDENT: Yes. As you said, it has created everything we know. So he can do whatever he wants, and he knows what he will do in the future…no wonder the paragraph says that he has described what would happen in these days in great detail…
PUBLISHER: And he has not been wrong about anything, in fact today many prophecies are being fulfilled and the things that have not yet been done as Isaiah says will be done in a short time. Let us now analyze how we are sure of this. And for this, we are going to delve even more into how accurate the Bible is with the following section 4 to deepen the subject.
STUDENT: Okay…
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