If you can do nothing but live a true Christian life – patient, gentle, kindly, pure – in your home, in society, at your daily duty – you will perform a service of great value, and leave many blessings in the world. Such a life is a little gospel, telling in sermons without words – the wonderful story of the cross of Christ.
J.R. Miller

What hard evidence says about

What hard evidence says about What hard evidence says about: ‘The Authenticity of the Bible’

    Old Testament:

    • Oldest Hebrew Manuscript dated approx 900 AD
    • Time gap is about 1300 years
    • Reliability about same as other writings of antiquity until discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947
    • Old Testament manuscripts found with the Dead Sea Scrolls dated before time of Christ (125 BC)
    • Time gap decreases to less than 300 years
    • Dead Sea Scrolls contained over 40,000 inscribed fragments from which over 500 books were reconstructed – some of which were extrabiblical
    • Example: Isaiah – a complete text was found dating 125 BC, 1000 years older than any known text at that time.
    • Example: Isaiah 53 – only difference, other than font variations, was the inclusion of three letters comprising the word ‘light’ in verse 11, which created no change in meaning of verse.
    • Conclusion: In over 1000 years, only 1 minor word deletion occurred out of a possible 166 words – a true testament to the accuracy of the copyists and the provision of God throughout the centuries!

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