Introduction: Why Trust the Bible?
It is a delight to be with you this morning. I am always delighted to be with the Lord's people on the Lord's day. I am here with most of my family, my wife, Bridget, and our seven youngest children are with me. We bring you greetings from Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, where we have recently relocated and become members.

We spent almost the last decade in Lusaka in Zambia. We went there to help start the African Christian University. We're supposed to be there for three to five years, but ended up being there almost 10. But we are back now and excited about the opportunity to help start the Founders Seminary in Cape Coral. Pray for us as we get started.

Our first semester starts on August 11th. I have the privilege of serving as the president of the new seminary, and it is a weighty responsibility, but an exciting one. So please keep us in mind, keep us in your prayers.

Today, I have a very specific message to give you, and that is why we choose to believe the Bible. That's something that I've been talking about, preaching about, writing about for a very, very long time. It's something that has really come to the forefront in the broader culture at large.

I don't know if you know the name Wes Huff, but Wes Huff is an apologist. He's a Canadian PhD student specializing in New Testament textual criticism. A while back, Wes got a call from a friend who was doing a podcast, and it was a last-minute thing where Wes was asked to come on and have a discussion, have a debate with another guy who was not famous, but he was well known in the biblical skepticism field.

He is a guy who talks about all these conspiracy theories and how there are Egyptian myths and ancient texts, and all these conspiracy theories about the Bible. So Wes agreed to go on his podcast, and it was really bad. The biblical skeptic was utterly exposed as the fraud that he is.

He goes all around the world talking to people about these things that supposedly undermine the authority of scripture. He said he was talking about this one example, this Sinai Bible that doesn't even have the resurrection. So Wes Huff pulls that book off of his bookshelf. Again, Wes Huff, PhD student, is studying textual criticism.

He asks if the guy was talking about Codex Sinaiticus, and it was. Wes opens in the original written language and shows that what he says is not there is actually there. The guy's like, okay, I'll take your word for it. It's a couple of hours of moments like these.

So much so that eventually Joe Rogan invites Wes Huff to come on the Joe Rogan show. Because the original podcast went viral. It was so embarrassing, and Joe Rogan was talking about how embarrassing it was. Joe Rogan, a well-known atheist, spends hours with West Huff talking about the Bible and textual criticism and all this sort of stuff.

Wes brought different things with him to show and give to Joe. Joe Rogan is going to church now, communicating with Wes Huff regularly about the Bible. Now he's been on other podcasts to talk about this because of the phone call that he answered and was ready for. Essentially, he answered the question that we're addressing here today.

I'm not saying that everybody needs to be a PhD-level textual critic. That's not what we're going to be doing here today. Today, I just want to help you be able to answer what I believe is the most important question for any Christian to answer. Let that sink in for a minute.

Now, as I say that, some of you are sitting there thinking, well, I don't know if that's the most important question. Fine. Some of you are thinking, I think the most important question would be, Who is Jesus? My most important question would be, What must I do to be saved? Or the most important question, fill in the blank, whatever it is that you say is the most important question. Let me ask you another question. Why do you believe what you believe about that?

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