This Website is Still a Work In Progess! So, how do we answer this thought provoking question? There are two primary avenues of inquiry to seek out the proper responses to this question. First, what does the Bible claim about itself? And secondly, what do it's readers believe it to be? The first question is fairly simple to answer because we can search its pages and read its claims. The second, however, is not so easy because there are hundreds, if not 1000's, of opinions.

forever written

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Inerrant

Internal Evidence the Bible is what it claims to be

External Evidence the Bible what is what it claims to be. The Christian can rely on the Holy Spirit to guide and convince of the Bible's precision and truthfulness. But the non-believer must begin with the external proofs to bring them to a logical conclusion, based on the external facts. And what are these facts? There are many!

Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start!

1Written By God Through the Apostles. First and foremost, the Apostle Peter tells us, “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”(2 Peter 1:21) This indicates to us the fact that no human initiated what was written. Each writer was carried along by the Holy Spirit to write only as God directed! The Bible claims to have come straight from the mind of God Himself and therefore should be accepted as His writings to us. God wrote the 10 Commandments with His very finger! He wrote the Bible using the hands of annointed men!

2Given By God to Give to the Churches. The New Testament writings were sent from the Apostles to the churches to be read in their meetings, copied and shared. Most were in the form of 'letters' to the churchs (also known as epistles). So the earliest churches had texts written by Apostles who were taught personally by Jesus and were eye-witnesses of His life and miracles.(1 John 1-4) And in some cases, after thoroughly investigating the validity, the Apostles wrote of other peoples' eye-witness accounts.(Luke 1:1-3)

3God Promises to Preserve His Words. Further, not only were the letters recordings of eye-witness accounts, but God promised to perserve them throughout the ages! “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” (Psalms 12:6-7) And then this fearful warning: “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Revelation 22:18-19)

4The History of Its Preservation. You see, there are two streams of Bibles, not just one. Each stream of Bibles has its own history. The Northern Stream originated in Antioch of Syria, where "the disciples were called Christians first" (Acts 11:26). These believers faithfully copied and accurately translated the Bible. Why? Because they believed God's promise to preserve His words And they didn't want to sin by adding to or taking away from God's holy Bible. The Bible-believers in Antioch took God at His word. So God preserved His words through Antioch. One of the translations made there was the Old Latin, which spread across the Roman empire, all the way to England, before 200 AD!
(The above paragraph is taken from Chick.com)
This perfectly preserved Bible was (1)dictated by God (2)through His Apostles (3)to the first century churches, (4)even to the believers at Antioch, (5)who carefully safeguarded it for Christians to read and share. Then in 1611, by decree of King James I, the King James Version was translated by greatmen of Godwho desired to give us an acurate copy of the Bibles in English. These Apostolic "autographs" are called the "Textus Receptus" and sometimes the "Majority Texts." We can trace the KJV directly back to the original, preserved, unaltered writings of the Apostles as delivered to the Saints at Antioch! The KJV was declared by King James I, and the English speaking churches of that day, to be the "Authorized Version" of the Bible in English. Men like John Wiclif, William Tyndale, John Rogers, Myles Coverdale and others were tortured and killed by the Catholic "church" for the work they did in helping to translate from the original writings.

5The Bible Perversions. Perversion may seem a very harsh word to use, BUT God's preserved words have been changed for, what I consider to be, perverted reasons. These reasons include: (1)to validate non-Biblical, denominational doctrines and beliefs, (2)many "scholars" believe they can improve on what God "meant" to say, (3)to be accomodating of everyone's way of life, which moves the Church towards the End Time initiative of Ecumenism, (4)to make the Bible "easier" to understand, or (5)to make MONEY off the marketing and sales of new "versions". It boils down to this truth. There is no need for over 200 different English versions of the Bible if the Bible is truely unchanging!

In reality, what people think of the Bible has no bearing at all on the authenticity, integrity or truthfulness of the Bible!

It IS what it claims to be or it IS NOT!

Those who seriously investigate its veracity will discover its genuiness.

foundational documents (building on shifting sands)

what's changed?

unchanging

what's missing?

It is the Bible that tells us about Jesus: His death, burial, resurrection and emanant return.

Example: (John 3:4-5) “Nicodemus saith unto Him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” The understanding of who this verse is addressed to is LOST without the KJV english!
Here is the key: THEE, THINE and THOU are singular. YE, YOU and YOUR are plural.
If all of these are changed, as in most modern translations, to the word "YOU", how is the reader able to determine if the word is singular or plural?
In John 3:7, was Jesus addressing the individual or everyone when He said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”

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