We Can Trust The Bible
#UnderstandingTheBible
VIDEO BUMPER…
OKAY - I want to start of the morning by reading several passages of Scripture that all have a common focus that will become obvious pretty quickly.
Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.
– Ps 119:89
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
– Ps 119:105
The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. I open my mouth and pant, longing for your commands. – Psalm 119:130,131
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. – Isaiah 55:10,11
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe. – 1 Thessalonians 2:13
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. – 2 Timothy 3:16,17
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. – Hebrews 4:12
All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. – 1 Peter 1:24,25
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit… - 2 Peter 1:20,21
PRAYER…
OKAY MGCC…
THIS MORNING – we are kicking off a new series that I am extremely pumped up about called, ‘Understanding The Bible.’
Understanding this book that…
• Is eternal
• Stands firm in the heavens
• Gives us light and understanding
• Comes from the mouth of God accomplishing what He desires and achieving his purposes
• Is at work in those who believe
• Corrects us when we are wrong – teaches us to do what is right – and prepares and equips us for ever good work
• Alive and active – sharper than a double edged sword and that judges the thoughts and attitudes of our heart.
• Will stand and endure forever
• Was written by men who spoke for God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
• Is not just ink on paper
• Is not just another book
YES – for a few weeks we are going to have several conversations about understanding the bible.
NOW - it seems like today, that everyone has an opinion about the bible…
SOME – say that the bible is a pack of lies, stories made up by men - that simply meets the needs of weak-minded people.
AND OTHERS – say that this book is God-breathed and is the hope of the world…
QUESTION…
• What do you think about this book?
• Do you believe that it is true – that it is from God?
• How seriously do you take it in your life?
• Is it just nice to have around or do you read?
• Do you follow it’s teachings?
• Is it a guide - a compass for how you live?
• Do you understand it?
• Do you find it kind of intimidating?
• Would you like to understand it or understand better?
OKAY – here are the conversations we will be having beginning today…
• We Can Trust The Bible
• The Story Of The Bible
• How We Got The Bible
• Principles For Seeing The Bible In HD
QUESTION…
IF - God exists
IF – a non-contingent, uncaused by anything else, self-sufficient, self-reliant, all-powerful, intelligent, always existing, unique, good & moral God who loves us, were to write a book – what kind of book would it be?
WELL - I think among other things a book written by God would be…
• Unique (in a class of it’s own),
• Accurate (we could trust what it says)
• Supernatural (it would know some stuff that only God could know)… and it would be
• Transforming (it would radically change the lives of people).
QUESTION – is there such a book….
WELL THIS MORNING – in a conversation called,
“We Can Trust The Bible”…
I want to make the case for the bible being that book…
UNDERSTAND B/S
You can trust the Bible because…
The Bible Is Unique
YOU KNOW - Webster must have had the bible in mind when he wrote the definition of the word ‘unique.’
CHECKOUT – this definition of the word unique;
1. one and only; single; sole.
2. Different from all others; having no equal.
NOW – I want to talk about several was that the bible is different from all other books in the world and how it has no equal…
The bible is unique in it’s composition
The bible was written over a period of 1500 years; in 3 languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek), on 3 continents (Asia, Africa, Europe) and it was written by 40+ different writers from all walks of life…
Including kings, military leaders, peasants, poets, fisherman, prophets, statesman, priests, scribes, scholars, shepherds, fig pickers and even an IRS agent…
The bible was written in many different places; Moses wrote in the wilderness, Jeremiah in a dungeon, Daniel in a palace, Paul behind prison bars, Luke while traveling, John while in exile on the island of Patmos.
AND - the bible was written in a wide variety of literary styles – in this book we have: poetry, song, romance, law, biography, prophecy, historical narrative, parable and allegory.
UNDERSTAND – there is no other book like the bible in it’s composition – it truly stands alone. I challenge anyone to find a book written over a period of 1500 years, in 3 languages, on 3 continents by 40+ men,
AND YET fit together so perfectly…(it ain’t happening)
The bible is unique in it’s circulation
IT’S - the most published book in history – no other book even comes close.
100 million copies of the bible are printed and sold every year!
AND – the total number of bibles sold is estimated to be around 6 billion!
The bible is unique in it’s translations
IN FACT - the bible was one of the first books ever translated. In 250 BC the Hebrew Old Testament was translated into the Greek language and given the name Septuagint (LXX).
The work was originally produced for Greek-speaking Jews living in Alexandria who could no longer read Hebrew.
UNDERSTAND - most books are never translated into another language at all. AND - among those that are, most are published in just 2 or 3 languages. Far fewer books see translations figures rise into the teens.
BUT – check this out… according to Wycliffe Global Alliance (a bible translating alliance made up of 100 organizations from 60 nations)…
• Full Bible – 682 languages (5.4 billion people)
• New Testament – 1543 additional languages (700 million)
• Portions of Scripture – 1121 additional languages (400 million)
6.5 billion people – 3,346 languages of the 6,900+
AND – at this very moment an army of thousands are at work to translate the bible into the world’s remaining languages…(in fact work is in progress in 2500 additional languages right now)
YouVersion – 1100 languages
Faith Comes From Hearing – has recordings of Scripture in 1100
The bible is unique in it’s survival
UNDERSTAND - attempts to destroy the Bible have always been a part of this remarkable book’s history.
In 303 AD the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued an edict to destroy all Christians and their Bible.
AND THE - the persecution that followed as a result of this edict was one of the most brutal in Roman history. Toward its end, Diocletian ordered a monument to be erected and on it he had these triumphant words inscribed,
"The name Christian is extinguished."
HOWEVER - Twenty-five years later, Diocletian was dead, and his successor Constantine legalized Christianity and ordered 50 Bibles prepared at the government expense.
AND - in 1776, Voltaire, the French philosopher, announced that,
"One hundred years from my day, there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker."
YET - one hundred years later, his very own house and press were being used to print and store Bibles by the Geneva Bible Society.
Ironically enough, at a public auction held one hundred years to the day of Voltaire’s prediction, the first edition of his work sold for 11¢ but a Bible manuscript was purchased for over half a million dollars!
As Peter put it in 1 Peter 1:24,25…
“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever…”
A thousand times over, the death bell of the bible has been sounded, the funeral procession has been formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. - Bernard Ramm
The bible is unique in it’s influence
UNDERSTAND - the bible is without a doubt – the most influential book the world has ever seen… It has set more pens and brushes in motion then we could even imagine.
The bible has influenced such great artists as; Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt and Michelangelo, and great Musicians like Bach, Handle, Beethoven…
The bible has inspired over 400 great works of art and musical compositions. AND – not only has the bible had great influence – on the arts, but on nearly every other walk of life….
IN FACT - the bible has influenced governments, philosophy and judicial systems for hundreds of years…
Our own Declaration Of Independence, Constitution and Judicial Code are grounded in the Bible.
AND LISTEN – the bible has influenced many of histories greatest people…
Abraham Lincoln: I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given man.
George Washington: It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible
Napoleon: The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
Patrick Henry: The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.
Charles Dickens: The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
Benjamin Franklin: A bible in every home is the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.
Woodrow Wilson: When you have read the bible, you will know it is the Word of God, because you will have found in it the key to your own happiness and your own duty. A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this knowledge of the bible.
Ronald Reagan: I have found that the bible contains an answer to just about everything and every problem that confronts us, and I wonder sometimes why we won’t recognize that one book could solve our problems for us.
And as Sir Walter Scott lay dying, he said to his friend and biographer, John Lockhart, “Read from the book.” “Which book?” asked Lockhart. Scott replied, “There is but one.”
The bible is unique in it’s continuing universal appeal
UNDERSTAND - for centuries people from all walks of life…
Young & old, rich & poor, educated & uneducated, male & female, kings & peasants, slave and free - people from all over the world – in different places, from different cultures have read this book…
I MEAN – seriously think about it…
The Psalms and Proverbs are over 3,000 years old…
AND – just as these words spoke then -- they ‘still’ speak today… Crazy.
QUESTION – how many other books containing 3,000 year old poetry do you read on a regular basis?
I bet as many as I do – zero!
NOW – people read books all the time, AND – most of the time when they are finished with a book they throw it on a shelf or in a box in a closet… until they decide to sell it for 25 cents at a garage sale.
AND THEN - they look for another book… that will entertain them, help them escape or teach them something new.
BUT UNDERSTAND – it’s different with serious bible readers… YOU SEE – they never seem to finish the book AND even if they do they are never tempted to put it away for good.
INSTEAD – they read over and over again….
B/S - I have been intently reading this book since 1979… 39 years!
UNDERSTAND– if God were to write a book – it would be unique [Different from all others; having no equal
YES – we can trust the Bible because it is unique, and…
The Bible Is Accurate
The bible is accurate historically
QUESTION - is the Bible good history or bad history?
Which is it? Do you know?
WELL - let me start with some easy examples of what bad history might be. Listen to these phrases and tell me why it’s bad history.
Number one:
World War I was a bitter four-year conflict fought from 1904 to 1908.
Good history or bad history?
Why is it bad history? What’s wrong?
The dates are wrong. (now some of you are bad students. You didn’t think there was anything wrong with that whole statement right there). The dates were wrong.
World War I was fought between 1914 and 1918.
UNDERSTAND - good history pays attention to dates and gets them right. Bad history doesn’t.
Second statement:
World War II was a bloody conflict between Allied and Axis forces fought on the battlefields in Central China and Southern Africa from 1939 to 1945.
Are the dates right? Yes, the dates are right.
What’s wrong? The place. The geography is wrong.
World War II was not fought in South Africa and Central China, but mostly in Europe, the South Pacific, and a few other places.
LISTEN - good history gets geography right.
The third statement:
The Soviet Union premier, Margaret Thatcher, will always be remembered as the leader who engineered the unraveling of the USSR.
Why is that bad history? It’s the wrong what? It’s the wrong person. It was Gorbachev, not Thatcher.
YOU SEE - Good history pays attention to the people facts.
OKAY - Here is one more: Michael Jordan played basketball for over a decade for the Chicago Bulls in the 80s and 90s, but his play was just average.
Now you think, are the dates right? Yes.
Is the place right? Yes.
You know the person is right.
BUT - the whole storyline is wrong. The essence of what the statement is about is wrong.
I MEAN - Michael was a little better than average, don’t you think?
BOTTOM LINE - bad history, among other descriptions, could be defined as any account of an actual event that plays loose with dates, places, people or storylines.
OKAY - all of that to say that when you study the Bible and you compare it to accepted history, the events surrounding the teachings of the Bible have all been well established historically.
UNDERSTAND - the Bible is not bad history. In fact, the Bible is not just good history, the truth is that the bible has proven to be outstanding history – even better than the records of secular historians.. YOU SEE - not only does the Bible pass the muster with regard to dates, geography, people, and storylines that it references, but what has happened in recent years with the advent of archaeology is that the bible has proved to be true and secular history and bible critics were proven to be wrong.
UNDERSTAND - prior to archaeology when there were disputes between the biblical record and the secular record of history – critics of the bible would jump up and say – “hey we can’t trust the bible to be true – look it can’t even get simple events of history right..”
AND SO – for years these critics proudly strutted around like they had defeated the bible…YOU SEE in their minds they thought that they had the bible on the ropes and were moving in for the knockout punch…
BUT LISTEN - before the final bell sounded the bible pulled a Rocky Balboa and knocked them to the canvas instead…
Let me give you a couple examples (that’s all I have time for).
For years critics of the Bible kept pointing to a people group mentioned several times in the Old Testament, a nation called the Hittites.
The secular historians said, "no such group of people ever existed. This is purely fictional. There’s no record of them anywhere. The Bible is bad history."
THEN – in 1906 archaeologists unearthed not only evidence that the Hittite nation once existed, but they located their capital city and 40 other key cities that made up the Hittite Empire.
One more example…
The name Pilate was said to be a figment of the Gospel writer’s imagination. There was no historical record of the famous Governor who gave the go ahead for Jesus’ crucifixion.
Then, in 1961 a helicopter was flying down the coast of Israel and noticed a strange circle in the sand – which led to an excavation of an entire city named Caesarea Philippi and a magnificent amphitheater.
On the walls of that amphitheater was a plaque dedicating it to the man who built it: Pontus Pilate, Governor of Judea.
UNDERSTAND B/S - this kind of thing has happened scores of times in the last hundred years where what was thought to be bad history in the Bible suddenly became good history because of archaeological evidence.
So much so that author William Lane Craig thinks it’s high time that the writers of Scripture get their just due for taking great pains to be accurate in even the smallest details surrounding the events of the Bible.
FOR EXAMPLE
Craig says the biblical writer, Luke, who penned the Book of Acts in the New Testament, demonstrated -- "Uncanny geographic precision" when he references certain cities, towns and villages that he and the Apostle Paul traveled through during the first missionary journey.
Craig says that each city, town and village that Luke mentioned squares exactly with the record of secular history.
Craig says that he’s
"amazed at Luke’s grasp of government as he cites the official names of the prelates, magistrates, proconsuls and governors of his day." Craig says, "It would have been pretty easy to get at least one of those wrong."
BUT - Luke gets every single one of them exactly right.
Craig also says that Luke gets it right when he describes terrain, rivers, mountains, valleys, wells, buildings, and even the coinage of his day. It all squares with the other historical references, every single word.
UNDERSTAND B/S – even though the Bible was not specifically written as a history book in the strictest of senses, the Bible passes the historicity test with flying colors.
Dr. Nelson Glueck, probably the greatest modern authority on Israeli archeology, has said:
"No archeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries."
(in other words when archeologists want to know where to dig they use the bible as a map)
The bible is accurate in it’s text
(note – we will talk more about the bible’s textual accuracy when we get to the conversation, “How We Got The Bible.”
UNDERSTAND WHEN - you enter just about any university, before you even have time to watch your first football game in the fall – a professor will more than likely give you an assignment to read; Plato & Aristotle, towering giants.
I MEAN – their writings have had enormous influence on thought over the years.
AND LISTEN…
NO ONE – questions the content of their works
NO ONE – questions the reliability of the text
NO ONE – questions whether or not their writings have been passed on to us responsibly, or whether or not some errors – have crept in along the way…
INSTEAD – the Plato & Aristotle we have today is simply taken as an accurate representations of what the authors originally wrote…
BUT - did you know that there are only 12 existing copies of their hand written manuscripts… Only 12 to study and compare in order to determine the accuracy throughout the years.
QUESTION – how many manuscripts do you think there are for the NT? 20-30-120 (yeah that would be good, to have 10 times as many manuscripts of the biblical text)
WELL – there is a whole lot more than 120 copies…
Person; lived (wrote) Earliest Copy Time Gap Copies
Plato 427-347 B.C. AD 940 1300 yrs 7
Aristotle 384-322 B.C. AD 1100 1400 yrs 5
N.T. A.D. 40-100 A.D. 115 70 yrs 5856
AND – you could add to that 5,856 number…
• 20,000 manuscripts (of 2nd and 3rd century translations)
• 1 million quotations by the early church fathers (who wrote from the late first century to AD 300)
Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, who was director and principal librarian of the British Museum and second to none in authority for issuing statements about manuscripts said the following;
“The interval then between the dates of the original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the NT may be regarded as finally established.
AND – Dr. William F Albright an archaeologist and professor at John Hopkins University said; “No other work from Greco-Roman antiquity is so well attested by mss tradition as the NT.”
Apart from trivial variations such as those in spelling and word order, it is estimated that we can be sure of 99.9% of the original new testament text, and the remaining 1/10 of 1% contains nothing crucial. – Jack Cottrell (Solid, The Authority Of God’s Word)
OKAY – how about the OT, is it accurate?
In 1947 – the world experienced what may be the greatest archeological find of all time. A shepherd boy tosses a rock into some caves near the Dead Sea and hears a jar break..
AND – God gave to the world a gift he had been protecting for nearly 2,000 years… The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS).
AND B/S – in one dramatic stroke, 1,000 years were hurdled in terms of age of the OT manuscripts we had.
(Before DSS oldest 900 AD after ~ 200 BC)…
And let me make 2 quick points;
99.5 % accuracy in those 1000 years of coping the text (the .5 % is mostly spelling & slips of the pen)
If God were to write a book we could trust it, because it would be… unique, accurate, and…
The Bible Is Supernatural
AND – what I mean by that is that the bible knows some stuff that only God could know…
NOW – there are just 2 things I want to talk about that point to the bible being supernatural…
The First is;
Fulfilled Prophecies
And do not forget the things I have done throughout history. For I am God--I alone! I am God, and there is no one else like me. Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish. - Isaiah 46:9,10
NOW UNDERSTAND – there hundreds of bible prophecies that have been fulfilled, specifically and meticulously through the centuries… I only have time to talk about a few….
One of the most remarkable of all is the prophet Ezekiel’s prediction about the downfall of the city a Tyre in Ezekiel 26.
In Ezekiel 26:1-14, the Bible foretells with miraculous precision the destruction of the city of Tyre. The prophet Ezekiel predicted that Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon: would destroy the city (26:7-8)
that many nations would come up against Tyre (26:3)
that the city would be leveled and scraped clean like a bare rock (26:4).
that the city’s stones, timbers, and soil would be cast into the sea (26:12).
that the surrounding area would become a place for the spreading of fishermen’s nets (26:5).
And, finally, the city never would be rebuilt to its former glory (26:14).
WELL GUESS WHAT - secular history records that each one of these predictions came true. Tyre was a coastal city that had a somewhat unusual arrangement. In addition to the inland city, there was an island about three-fourth’s of a mile offshore. Nebuchadnezzar besieged the mainland city in 586 B.C., but when he finally was able to take the city in about 573 B.C., his victory was hollow.
YOU SEE - he did not know that the inhabitants had left the city and moved to the island—a situation that remained virtually unchanged for the next 241 years.
Then, in 332 B.C., Alexander the Great conquered the city—but not with ease. To get to the island, he literally had his army “scrape clean” the inland city of all building timbers, stones, and dirt. He then dumped those materials into the ocean, thereby building a “land bridge” to the island. Yet even though Alexander inflicted severe damage on the city, it still remained intact. In fact, it waxed and waned for the next 1,600 years until finally, in A.D. 1291, the Muslims thoroughly crushed Tyre.
The city never regained its position of wealth and power. The prophet Ezekiel looked 1,900 years into the future and predicted that the city of Tyre would be a bald rock where fishermen gathered to open their nets. And that is exactly what history records as having happened. Modern-day travelers who have visited the site of ancient Tyre report that only a small colony of people exists there. And guess what the people do for a living? They fish with nets.
In their 1976 book, Science Speaks, Peter Stoner and Robert Newman tried to attach some real-world (yet conservative) probabilities to each of these predictions. If we assume that Ezekiel made some “good guesses” about Tyre’s fate, what would be the chance that he might guess correctly every time?
That chance, said Stoner and Newman, turns out to be 1 in 75,000,000. To offer an analogy, an individual is twice as likely to be killed on the ground by an airplane during his or her lifetime, than to make the same number of predictions Ezekiel made and have them all come true… [How could Ezekiel do that? I suggest God told Him, would do you think? – if you don’t think God did – you may want to watch out for falling airplanes…]
There are over 100 prophecies in the OT about Jesus, prophecies about his birth, his ministry, his teachings and his death… AND – because of the Dead Sea Scrolls we now have manuscripts of these prophecies that date 100 or more years before Christ birth… Someone has calculated the odds of just 8 of those prophecies coming true in any one man – is the same odds as covering the state of Texas with silver dollars 2 feet deep and having a blindfolded man pick out the one marked coin…
GUYS – I wish I could tell you more… time will not permit…
Fulfilled prophecy points to the fact that the bible is supernatural… It knows stuff that only God could know….
Pre-Science Knowledge
OKAY – some examples would include:
2,000 years before Columbus proved that the world was not flat, the prophet Isaiah had already spoken to the roundness of the earth… (Is 40:22)
The bible was also very clear about keeping people with infectious diseases like leprosy away from the rest of people (Lev 13:46). AGAIN – obvious to us BUT if people would have followed the bible’s teaching - in the 14th century the 60 million people (1 in 4) who died from the black death may have lived…
AND (and this is gross) - up until the 18th century human waste was dumped right into the streets spreading disease and killing millions. I mean people would just dump it out from second and third story windows… In London in 1846 Edwin Chadwick a member of the board of health in London – trying to figure out how to stop a cholera epidemic that had killed over 16,000 people…
He found that people who were poor and lived in basements were more likely to die. Why? Because this is where the raw sewage form the streets settled…
If only they would have followed what Moses said 3,000 years earlier in Dt 23:12,13 people would not have had to die…
QUESTION – when does the OT – tell the Israelites to circumcise their sons? On what day? (the 8th day – Genesis 17:12)
Why is that? In 1935 professor H. Dam discovered vitamin K – which is what causes the liver to make a substance known as prothrombin – which helps blood to clot…
AND what he also discovered is that on the 8th day the levels of this blood clotting agent is at a level 2 times the normal level and it only occurs on this day. Day 8 is the perfect day for circumcision… because the bleeding would be able to clot better…
OKAY – just one more… Up until even the 19th century doctors believed that harmful vapors entered the blood and caused sickness…
HENCE – the practice of putting leaches on people to draw out these vapors… veins and arties located just above the elbow were also opened to bleed the patient.. {this is what killed George Washington).
HEY – have you ever seen a barber pole…
WELL – in the middle ages they did more than cut hair – Barbers kept a fresh supply of leaches stored in a basin on top of the pole. Red – blood, White – bandages, Blue - veins
I wonder how many people would have lived longer if only they would have listened to the bible –
YOU SEE - 3,000 years earlier Moses said, “the life of every creature is in the blood.. (Lev 17:11,14)
QUESTION – how did Moses know that?
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. - 2 Peter 1:20,21
The Bible Is Transformational
The Bible transforms lives!
LISTEN – there is no book that speaks to us like the bible. No book that better understands human life and human relationships.
In this book…
we find out how to be a better: husband, wife, parent, child, person
we are taught how to control our anger, tongue and our money…
This book is full of wisdom for life. It seems to know exactly what we need to do to have: joy, peace, hope, purpose, freedom…
QUESTION – how can this book know people, know you, know me – so well? I mean at times it understands us better then we do…
How is this book able to expose us for who we really are?
How is it able to straighten us out and help us do what is right?
How can this book know so much about us….?
May I suggest that the reason is because it was written by the one who created us? Created you?
WHY – does it transform lives because it is true/the very word of God!!!
[Listen – when you boil it down most people’s problem with the bible is not that it contradicts itself –0 but that it contradicts them and what they want to believe]
JUST ANOTHER BOOK – Oh come on be real….
AND LISTEN – if God took the time to be accurate with places and rivers..etc then all that stuff about; Christ, the cross, forgiveness and heaven is true to…
