The Bible

Quick Facts: The Bible was written over about a 1500 year span. By More than 40 different authors On 3 Continents: Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 3 Languages Billions, yes Billions have been sold. More copies have been produced of the Bible than any other book in history. It has been translated into more than 2200 languages. Although written on perishable materials originally, it has been copied and recopied for hundreds of years before the invention of the printing press. Scripture has never diminished in correctness, nor has it ever faced extinction. The Bible has more manuscript evidence to support it than any 10 pieces of classical literature combined. "Jews preserved it as no other manuscript has ever been preserved. With their massora they kept tabs on every letter, syllable, word and paragraph. They had special classes of men within their culture whose sole duty was to preserve and transmit these documents with practically perfect fidelity"-Bernard Ramm Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. -Charles Celeb Coloton

Infidels for eighteen hundred years have been refuting and overthrowing this book, and yet it stand today as solid as a rock. Its circulation increases, and it is more loved and cherished and read today than ever before. Infidels, with all their assaults, make about as much impression on this book as a man with a tack hammer would on the Pyramids of Egypt. When the French monarch proposed the persecution of the Christians in his dominion, and old statesman and warrior said to him,"Sire, the Church of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers." So the hammers of the infidels have been pecking away at this book for ages, but the hammers are worn out, and the anvil still endures. If this book had not been the book of God, men would have destroyed it long ago. Emperors and popes, kings and priests, princes and rulers have all tried their hand at it; they die and the book still lives. -H.L. Hastings A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of classical or modern times has been subjected to such a mass attack as the Bible? with such venom and skepticism? with such thoroughness and erudition? upon every chapter, line, and tenet? The Bible is still loved by million, read by millions, and studied by millions. -Bernard Ramm   If he [the biblical critic] tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel... I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like, I know that not one of them is like this. -CS Lewis The noted French infidel Voltaire, who died in 1778, declared that in one hundred years from his time Christianity would be swept from existence and passed into history. Only 50 years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society used Voltaire's press and house to produce stacks of Bibles. -Geisler And Nix Other book claim divine inspiration, such as the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and parts of the Veda. But none of those book contains predictive prophecy. -Geisler And Nix An inspired work, the Bible is also a source of inspiration. Its impact has no equal, whether on the social and ethical plane or on that of literary creation... Its characters are dramatic, their dramas timeless, their triumphs and defeats overwhelming. Each cry touches us, each call penetrates us. Texts of another age, the biblical poems are themselves ageless. They call out to us collectively and individually, across and beyond the centuries. -Elie Wiesel The Bible contains detailed prophecies about the coming Savior of the world, whose prophecies have proven true in history. Only the Bible has its accuracy confirmed in history by archaeology, textual criticism, science, and the like.