Historicity of the Bible

The Bible is not one of many great books. It is unique. The Bible has 40 writers from every walk of life. The Bible was written in many different places. It was written on three continents in three languages. But there is continuity throughout. It has been preserved from the original manuscripts by careful scholars. The Old and New Testaments are the most accurately preserved documents of the ancient world. The Old Testament was copied with such precision that when an entire scroll had been copied by hand, one letter at a time, if one mistake was made, the scroll was destroyed.Scribes took pains to copy the text accurately, even counting the letters in each line, on each page, and in each book. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrollls, texts of Old Testament books dating as early as 200 B.C. were found. Also, scholars have found that all the truly disputed words found in the Greek New Testament could be printed on one half of one page in a Greek New Testament. No other work which is considered to be reliable can come near to the reliability of the Old and New Testaments. The way the Bible has been preserved shows that the Bible is the Word of God. In spite of persecution and criticism and time, the Bible has survived. No other book has influenced the world so much. It has influenced history and changed lives.

The events in the Bible were not done in secret. Many people saw them. People who were reliable testified in writing to the authenticity of those events.

The historicity of the Bible can also be proved externally. The Bible is written in such a way that you can know with accuracy where and when events took place. For example, Josephus was a non-Christian historian who was an aristocrat. He had a good education in Jewish and Greek culture. He was governor of Galilee and military commander in the wars with Rome. His testimony to the scriptures