A few fun facts about the Bible

THE BIBLE:

AN INTRODUCTION



The Bible is an amazing book. Consider the following fun facts.

The Bible consists of 66 books written in three different languages by 40 different authors over 1500 years that comes together in one unifying theme.

The Bible is by far the most published book ever. Indeed, it has been published more than the rest of the top five combined AND two of the next four are based on the Bible.

The Bible is utterly unique in it’s survival through time. There are nearly forty times more ancient manuscripts of the Bible than any other ancient text. We have text of Scripture within 25 years of it’s original writing. The surviving texts are also much more accurate through time. Texts made hundreds of years apart are essentially identical.

The Bible has been persecuted many times more than any other work of literature. Many governments have sought to eliminate the Bible from their society often only to see the Bible return and flourish and become more plentiful than before. For centuries, some have tried to disprove the validity of the Scripture in one way or another completely without valid result. Hundreds have challenged the historicity of various Bible passages but none have ever been proven conclusively valid. Indeed, there have been hundreds of archaeological findings validating historical data in the Bible.