he sixty-six books that were brought together to form theBible as we know it today were written by forty differentTpeople over a period of 1,500 years! Second Peter 1:20-21explains how the books of the Bible were written: “No prophecyin Scripture ever came from the prophet’s own understanding,or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by theHoly Spirit, and they spoke from God.” This means the peopleGod used to write Scripture were not reporting what they figuredout on their own. No one ever decided, “I think I’ll write a bookof the Bible.” They didn’t know how their written words would beused (or how long they would last), but they were “moved by theHoly Spirit,” which means that God influenced them to write.THE BIBLE IS AN ACCURATEHISTORICAL BOOKTHE BIBLE BECOMES ANOFFICIAL BOOKAll about theTHE BIBLE IS AN INSPIRED BOOKFor the first three hundred years the early church did not havethe Bible as we know it today. Instead, Christians would copyby hand manuscripts of the Gospels and letters written by theapostles so that every Christian could know the story of Jesus.Then, in the fourth century AD, the church agreed that theBible would consist of the twenty-seven books we now find inthe New Testament and the Hebrew Bible, which is the thirtynine books we call the Old Testament. The Old Testament wasalready accepted as a part of the Christian Bible because it wasthe Bible of Jesus and the apostles.For a book to be accepted as a part of the New Testament ithad to:1) be drawn from eyewitness accounts or be a letterwritten by an apostle;2) proclaim Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Lord ofall and agree with other accepted teachings of thechurch; and3) be universally accepted by all Christians as accurate.he people, places, and events in the Bible are historicallyverifiable by archaeological findings. Of all the ancient booksTwe read today, we have more and older manuscripts of the New1.2Testament than any other book. The oldest portions of the Biblewere found in caves near the Dead Sea and nicknamed the DeadSea Scrolls. These earliest manuscripts are some of the world’smost important ancient literary treasures today.The Old Testament originated as stories told and passeddown through generations of Israelites before being physicallywritten down. Originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the textwas preserved on large scrolls by scribes who carefully checkedtheir work. Scholars have compared various scroll fragments withour Bible today and have found the faithfulness to the earliesttexts to be remarkably accurate.The New Testament was originally written in ancient Greekby authors who either knew Jesus personally or knew someonewho did. The authors wrote down what they saw and heard.Then they passed what they had written to other early Christians,many of whom had met and heard Jesus and would have beenable to verify the accounts.The shortest verse of the Biband the longest verse is Est le is John 11:35,her 8:9.The longest chapter of the Biband the shortest chaptelre isis Psalm 119,Psalm 117.The New Testament quotes Isaiahmorethanany ot her O ld Testament book(419 times!).The Bible has 66 books, 1,18931,092 verses—and 1 bigchstapters,ory!1.3
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