Confidence in the History of the OT (Part 1)
Israel in Egypt, by Edward Poynter We are in the midst of a series on the Bible, and in particular, on how we can have confidence in the trustworthiness of the Bible. We have looked at the confidence we can have that the table of contents in our Bibles is correct – that is, that the canon of Scripture that we have in the 66 books in our OT and NTs is composed exactly of the books that ought to be there. Today, we want to shift and look at the confidence we can have in the history that the Bible relates. We need to do this because the Bible is largely composed of history, the telling of what God has done in our space-time world, beginning with its creation from nothing. The Pentateuch is composed of law but also of a lot of history. Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, are all history. Even the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel contain lots of narrative about the history of God’s...
