Uniqueness of the Bible
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What book has had the greatest impact on world leaders throughout history? Answer: The Bible’s influence has extended all around the world throughout history. As a result, many great leaders and statesmen throughout history have had the greatest respect for the Bible. There are too many quotes to reproduce them all here, but I will give you a sample, with reference site attached. “It is impossible to rightly govern without God and the Bible” (George Washington, thinkexist.com/quotes). “The Bible is the Book of faith, and a Book of doctrine, and a Book of morals, and a Book of religion,...
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You probably have heard about the consistency of the Bible that seems to be unique among books. This consistency shows up not only in its message but in its use of word pictures, or idioms. They give evidence that the whole Bible was designed and inspired by one mind. Idioms are words used as a symbol for something that may not be obvious in their literal meaning. Across the whole Bible, even with its many writers over thousands of years, we see a consistency in the way a given word is used as a symbol. These idioms can be subtle, but yet the consistency is remarkable. You can test...
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The Bible is everywhere! And this makes sense if it is indeed God's Word to us.The Bible has reached more places and peoples than any other book on this planet. In terms of total circulation no book even approaches the Bible, which has sold not millions, but billions of copies! Now if a book were actually inspired by God you would expect it to be powerful. Why would the Bible sell so much? Perhaps because it meets a need of mankind that only God could know about and provide, being our Creator. And people are inspired to give it out, even for free. Personally, one example of the ubiquitous...
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Sixty six books, forty or more authors, written over thousands of years, written on three continents, in three different languages, by people from diverse walks of life. Normally, if we had such a collection of books and authors, how likely would it be that they would agree on controversial topics? Topics such as the nature of God, what is right and wrong, how one is made right with God, etc. It would be hard to get agreement on these topics even in one time period, one language, one profession, or even one church! Yet in the Bible we have consistent agreement on these questions. For example,...
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