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Is The Bible Really Inspired By God?

        Can we believe in the bible? What makes you think it is factual? What does it do for me? It has been reported for about 50 years that the Bible has been the largest seller of all books published in the history of the world. The Bible was written over a 1500 hundred year span, by over 40 generations. The bible is compiled of 66 different books, written by more than 40 authors from every walk of life including kings, peasants, philosophers, fisherman, poets, statesman, scholars, etc... The bible was written in different places such as the wilderness, a dungeon, a hillside, a palace, a prison, while traveling, on an island, in the military, etc... It was written on 3 continents. The bible is written in three languages; Hebrew, Aramaic, & Greek. The bible has been read by by more people and published in more languages than any other book in history and there are more copies of its entirety that have been produced than any other book in human history. According to The Cambridge History of the Bible, no other book has known anything approaching this constant circulation. Its subject matter includes hundreds of controversial topics yet the Biblical authors spoke with harmony and continuity from Genesis to Revelation. The bible has withstood vicious attacks from its enemies as no other book has. Many have tried to burn it, ban it, destroy it and outlaw it and the bible is still here. The bible is a book of the history of God reaching out to man and more it is a manual for life, holy living, and how to experience God today if it is applied you can go places and do things that you never imagined possible. These men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21). They wrote not in words of human wisdom but in words taught by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2:13). 

Let History Speak For Itself

        Ancient historians have substantiate the reliability of the NT, and of Jesus initial physical coming such at; Cornelius Tacitus, Seutonius, Flavius Josephus, Younger Plenty, Julius Africanus A.D. 221 quotes Thallus 52 A.D. There are contemporaries of Jesus who were not His followers who have substantiated the claims that He existed and that many miracles happened and that He allegedly died and rose again. i.e. Cornelius Tacitus. Annuls XV. Born A.D. 52-54. Governor of Asia. Seutonius. Life of Claudius 25.4 Lives of the Caesars 26.2. Flavius Josephus. Antiquities XVIII 3.3. A.D. 70-90. Born A.D. 37. Julius Africanus A.D. 221 quotes Thallus 52 A.D. a Samaritan historian who recorded an unusual eclipse that took place at a time that corresponds to Christ's crucifixion. So we can see that there were ancient contemporaries of Jesus and the Apostles, non-Christian writers/historians who made reference to Jesus Christ in their writings (Darrel Heide, Apologetic Notes, p. 47. J. Miller, Christian Evidences, p. 21.)

How Accurate is the Bible?

        The Holy Bible is at least 1900 years old, the Bible contains none of the geographical, historical, and scientific mistakes and inaccuracies that characterize the writings of men. Books of medicine, astronomy, geology, etc., even 50 to 100 years old are usually outdated because of mistakes. How reliable is the Bible compared to other books written about the same time. The bible is the most accurate with the most amount of copies in circulation at the time of its writing. Compare the NT to other Greek writings; Caesar written about 100-44 B.C., earliest known copy 900 A.D., time span 1000 years, number of copies 10. Livy written about 59 B.C. earliest copy A.D.17, number of copies Plato (Tetralogies) written about 427-347 B.C. earliest known copy 900 A.D. spanned 1200 years only copies 7 in circulation. Tacitus (Annals) also minors works written about 100 A.D. earliest known copy, 1100 A.D. span of time 1000 years, 20 copies in existence. Sophocles written about 496-406 B.C. earliest known copy 1000 A.D. span of time 1400 years, 193 in existence. Aristole written about 384-322 B.C. earliest known copy 1100 A.D. span of time 1400 years, 49 known copies in existence. Aristophanes written about 450-385 B.C. earliest known copy 900 A.D. span of time 1200 years, 10 known copies in existence. Homer (Iliad) written about 900 B.C. earliest known copy 400 B.C. span of time 1500 years, 643 copies in existence. New Testament written between 40-105 A.D. earliest known copy 125 A.D. span of time 25 years, 24,000 copies in existence. The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in A.D. 1388. The first American edition of the Bible was perhaps published some time before A.D. 1752. The Bible has been translated in part or in whole as of 1964 in over 1,200 different languages or dialects. The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton about A.D. 1228. The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in A.D. 1448 and the New Testament by Robert Stephanus in A.D. 1551. There are 66 books in the Bible, 39 in the O.T. and 27 in the new. The O.T. has 23,214 verses. The N.T. has 7,959 verses. The word "God" occurs 4,379 times. The word "Lord" occurs 7,738 times.

Scientific Accuracies of the Bible

      The bible is accurate scientifically it has proved many things thousands of years before science had the technology to prove it.

• The Spherical Shape of the Earth

  "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in" (Isaiah 40:22, NIV).
  The Hebrew language did not have a word for "sphere." Circle is quite sufficient.

• The Earth is suspended in nothing

  "He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing" (Job 26:7, NIV).

• The Stars are Innumerable

  "He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars -- if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be" (Genesis 15:5, NIV).

• The Existence of Valleys in the Seas

  "The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils" (2 Samuel 22:16, NIV).

• The Existence of Springs and Fountains in the Seas

  "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month -- on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened" (Genesis 7:11, NIV). See also Gen. 8:2; Prov. 8:28.

• The Existence of Water Paths (Ocean Currents) in the Seas

  "O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!...When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,...You made him [man] ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet...the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas" (Psalm 8:1,3,6,8, NIV).

• The Hydrologic Cycle

  - "He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight" (Job 26:8, NIV).
  - "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind" (Job 36:27-28, NIV)
  - "The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again(Ecclesiastes 1:6-7, NIV).

• The Concept of Entropy

  "In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded"(Psalm 102:25-26, NIV).

• The Nature of Health, Sanitation, and Sickness

  The listing for this section is too large for this page. But the scriptural references are Leviticus chapters 12 through 14.

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