Be Prepared: The Bible Is Reliable

You get a five minute break at work and a co-worker asks you about the accuracy and reliability of the Bible. How can you respond?

The Bible has an amazingly consistent theme: Jesus.

• Written over the course of 1500 years by 40 different authors and containing 66 different books, the Bible is remarkable in the unity and consistency of its message.


• There were more than 300 prophecies made in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The probability of this is astonishing.

The evidence shows that the Bible is amazingly accurate.

• Over 23,000 archaelogical digs in biblical areas have either confirmed biblical facts or been neutral. None have disproved biblical accounts.


• Scholars say that at least 99% of the Bible has been translated correctly.  (It may be helpful to read this blog post on Bible translations.)


• We currently have thousands of copies of Greek New Testament manuscripts, the earliest of which dates around 120 A.D. (some fragments are even earlier). Therefore, the copies we have while not original copies are very close to the times when the New Testament books were written (between ~)50-95 A.D.
  
  
  
  • We have 5 copies of Aristotles Poetics, written 1400-1500 years after the original.
  
  
  • We have less than 10 copies of Caesar's Gallic Wars, written 900 years after the original.
  
  
  • We have about 640 copies of Homer's Illiad, written 2100 years after the original.
  
  
  
  


• There are 39 other ancient sources that relate various aspects of Jesus' life.

The Bible is one of the greatest miracles of God and it is available for us to read, study, and live by every single day!  It can be trusted.

For more information, check out this article on the Bible.