No 8
(Its history and its historical
accuracy)
Many hundreds, if not thousands of
volumes have been written on the history of the Bible and needless to say, I won’t attempt to
get into any specifics here, but I will say this: The Bible has passed the test of the ages and
has never been contradicted by secular history; in fact, the chronology of the
Bible matches secular history perfectly.
The Bible is not a history book, but it contains history. The writers of
the Bible had not intended it to be a history book because they were just
recording events that were transpiring before their eyes and their main goal
was to pass on their beliefs in God to future generations. Men such as Moses, David, Daniel or Paul had
no idea that their letters and writings would go on to be the Bible as we know
it today. God knew exactly what He was
doing and used men to record events that would impact generations of believers
to come. The Bible says in 2 Peter