Why should I trust the Bible?…I recently caught your article on “The Authority of the Bible” and I was wondering if you could answer a few questions for a long time follower of Christ who is now having trouble with the Bible. I’m not having trouble with the Bible as a whole, but what I’m […]

Why can we believe the Bible… 1. How does archaeology support the Bible? Archaeology cannot prove that the Bible is God’s written word to us. However, archaeology can (and does) substantiate the Bible’s historical accuracy. Archaeologists have consistently discovered the names of government officials, kings, cities, and festivals mentioned in the Bible — sometimes when […]

“Why is the Bible called the Holy Bible?”……The phrase biblia sacra (holy books) first appeared sometime in the Middle Ages. In English, one of the earliest-if not the earliest-uses of "The Holy Bible" appeared in 1611 on the cover of the Authorized Version, known as the King James Version. The word holy has several meanings, […]

Who wrote the New Testament? …Why not accept the apocrypha, the gospel of Judas, or the gospel of Thomas? There are solid reasons for trusting in today’s list of New Testament books. The church accepted the New Testament books almost as soon as they were written. Their authors were associates of Jesus or his immediate […]

Seven Compelling Evidences Confirm the Bible Is True With all the knowledge and resources readily available today, God's children have no excuse for not being prepared to "Give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15). First and foremost, we can know what the […]

“What is the Majority Text?”……The Majority Text, also known as the Byzantine and Ecclesiastical Text, is a method of determining the original reading of a Scripture by discovering what reading occurs in a majority of the manuscripts. As the Greek New Testament was copied hundreds of times over 1500 years, the scribes, as careful as […]

“What is Verbal Plenary Preservation?”…"Verbal Plenary Preservation" is an argument from the discipline of study referred to as textual criticism, which is the study of what an ancient copy of an original manuscript says and from there determining what the author meant. Ultimately, biblical textual criticism seeks to determine what the original, divinely inspired autographs […]