Where Did The Bible Come From?
This collection of ancient
documents was written and over a period of at least two millennia. Its authors included
tribal leaders, kings, farmers, warriors, prophets, scholars, prime ministers,
and at least one world ruler. Some of the writings recorded oral traditions
from yet earlier centuries, and some were based upon documents of still earlier
origin.
It was the tradition of the ancient Hebrew scribes to count the
letters in a new copy, and locate letters in the one-quarter, one-half, and
three-quarter positions of the document. The letters at these positions were
then compared with those in similar positions within the original. If the
numbers and characters did not match in all cases, the new hand-copied
manuscript was burned.
So precise was this scholarship that when a copy of the book of
Isaiah was discovered which had been written three hundred years before the
earliest find to date, the match was still exact. The New Testament, though not
under the meticulous supervision of the ancient Jewish scribes, has likewise
been found to be incredibly accurate.
The events of the included history, names of places, kings, and
key characters etc. have been confirmed by literally hundreds of contemporary
documents, and by overwhelming archeological evidence.