The Uniqueness of the Bible (I've created this in 2004)

Appendix A: The Uniqueness of the Bible

*The Bible is the eternal word of God. It's unchanging, absolute, supreme, authoritative, infallible, and the pure standard for faith and practice. The Bible is by far the most important book ever written in the history of the word. It is the most loved and hated book of all. There is no question of the Bible's veracity.

It consists of 66 books and took 1600 years to create. The authors include 40 people of a multitude of backgrounds like prophets, priests, cupbearers, a king, judges, fishermen, apostles, etc. and it was written on the three continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. The Bible has been translated in over 1,200 different languages or dialects along with being faithfully preserved for this long.

Theological, Philosophical, and Scientific arguments from both sides have existed in fierce deb ate of it. I feel it's very accurate and true. Newer archaeology has found more evidence to confirm the Bible more than any ancient document of ancient history. That's a fact. the Bible has the total divine revelation from God to man to use and follow.

I). Sources of copies Compared to other Documents

Dr. F. F. Bruce was the former Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University f Manchester. He compared various manusciprts.

Name of Historical Document	Earliest Copy Found	Copies known today	The Original Date of the Copy
Caesar's Gallic Wars	900 A.D.	9-10	100-44 B.C.
Plato	900 A.D.	7	427-327 B.C.
Homer's Illiad	400 B.C.	643	900 B.C.
Aristole	1100 A.D.	5	384-322 B.C.
Thyucydides	700 A.D.	8	384-322 B.C.
Tactius's Annals	1100 A.D.	10	100 A.D.
Seutonius	950 A.D.	8	75-160 A.D.
Sophocles' Oedipus	600 A.D.	193	496-403 B.C.
The New Testament	48-110 A.D.	24,633	125 A.D.

It's known that the NT alone has almost 25,000 copies in existence today for comparison making the Bible very unique and pernicious. Other biblical scholars have maintained that proposition such as Sir Frederic Kenyon, one of the great authorities in the field of New Testament textual criticism:

“The internal, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation, for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament maybe regarded as finally established.” (Sir Frederic Kenyon, The Bible and Archaeology, 1940, 288).

*The entire NT canon is not missing and the 86,000 quotations from the early church show nearly all of the verses from the NT. Even the great scholar A. T. Robertson said that the real concern over the text are only a thousandth part of the entire text so the NT is 99.9% free of significant variants.

II). Archaeological Accuracy

There is now tons of archaeological evidence to validate the Bible. First the NT must be presented and then the OT to be coherent Here’s various evidences:

a). The 49 A.D. Claudius expulsion of the Jewish people from Rome is mentioned at Acts 18:2. This is a proven fact from Suetonius’ Life of Claudius at 25:4.

b). In 1868, an inscribed store was discovered mentioning Mesha, King of Moab (in Jordan) and his overthrow of Israel, King Omri and has the name of the God of Israel (YHVH) as shown forth in the Holy Bible.

c). The existence of the Lord Jesus Christ is recorded by Tactius, Josephus, Suetonius, Thallus, Pliny the Younger, the Talmud, Lucian, and others as early as 100 A.D. along with the Bible of course.

d). The Exodus and the plagues to Egypt are shown in the Bible and this is also validated by the recently discovered Ipuwer Papyrus which shows the plagues occurring to Egypt as well.

e). There is the campaign of the Assyrian King Sennacherib against Judah. (2 King 18:13-16) which is recorded on Sargon’s II’s palace walls.

f). In Caesarea in 1961, two Italian archaeologists excavated an inscription in Latin that read “Pontius Pilate, Perfect of Judea, has presented the Tiberium to the Caesareans” This was the first non-Biblical reference to Pilate.

g). Who can forget the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered by Bedouin boys in January 1947. It ranged from 200 B.C.-200 A.D. and matches in many areas of the Massoretic text of 1000 A.D. It details many OT chapters with verses expecting the Messiah (The Lord Jesus Christ) in prophecy.

III). Science

It might seem very shocking or weird, but even the Bible displays many fundamental Bible facts and realities dealing with science.

a). Pslam 8:8 This dictates the paths of the seas or ocean paths which wasn’t too known for over 2,500 years ago by David. Matthew Maury, a U.S. Naval officer discovered water patterns way after this verse was conceived describing undersea currents.

b). Isaiah 40:22 The Earth is round, a sphere.

c). Job 26:7 This displays that the Earth hangs in space or hangs in nothing but outerspace.

d). Leviticus 17:11 This manifests the point of the blood is directly involved in the life of the organism since blood carries all life processes of the body, causes growth, build new walls, grows bone , stores fat, develops flesh, hair, and nails. Blood also help fight disease, repairs your body, and gives life in a strong way.

e). Eccelsiastes 1:6-7 The water cycle is conveyed since it describes condensation and evaporation. The sun or a heat source evaporates the water from the ocean, then the water vapors becomes clouds, then fall to the earth as rain, snow, etc. to the oceans to start up again. This wasn’t known until the scientist Galileo found out about it in 1630 A.D. and the writer of Ecclesiastes knew this at 1,000 B.C. Also, Job 26:8, 36:27-28, 37:16 outlines that as well.

f). Job 28:25 This verse proclaim that the atmosphere with wind has weight.

g). Pslam 102:26 This verse displays the concept of entropy or that energy is running down over time.

IV. The Prophecies of the Bible and the Signs of the

End Times:

Prophecy written in the Bible just elevates the Bible into a whole other class above many of the ancient religious texts from Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, etc. The Bible more exquisitely flows of the future than any other literature and on many occasions, their predictions came true in a span of hundreds or even thousands of years in advance.

Peter Stoneer, a mathematician and scientist, in his book Science Speaks specified that just 8 out of 300 prophecies which fulfilled about the Messiah Jesus Christ are one in 10^17 chances of coming true. 48 out of just over 300 fulfilled prophecies are 1 in 10^157 chances of transpiring making the Bible very inspired and mightier than the odds.

He researched this information extremely carefully as collaborated by the prestigious American Scientific Affiliation stating, “The Mathematical analysis included is based upon principles of probability which are thoroughly sound and Professor Stone has applied these principles in a proper and convincing way.” Here’s a number of fulfilled prophecies outlined in the Holy Bible.

a). Ezekiel 36:24, Matthew 24:32-34 This is a reference to the birth of Israel on May 14, 1948. The fig tree=Israel is a metaphor that Christ always used to symbolize Israel being a nation realizing the end of the age is near. Thousands of Jewish people have migrated to Israel whether apostate Zionist extremists or authentic Messianic Jewish individuals or Jewish Christians honorably worshipping the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Israel is a testament to the validity of Bible prophecies.

b). Ezekiel 26:16 The destruction of the city of Tyre is outlined here and this was prophesied by Ezekiel in 586 B.C. The fulfillment came when Nebucchadnezzar destroyed the inland city of Tyre and Alexander the Great ruined the island plus even the re-built city of Tyre. Even today, the old site of Tyre is nothing more than a location where fishermen spread thei r nets.

c). Matthew 24:7, Luke 2:11 Earthquakes, famines, pestilences, and hostile folly will plague mankind and now it has. Earthquakes have certainly increased in this world more than anytime in human history. From 1800-1900, 645 earthquakes existed and from 1900-1994, 1845 earthquakes existed. The crazy fact is that from 1994-2000 in just 6 years, there were 1163 earthquakes, which is 175.2 times higher than the ones from 1800-1900.

I have to mention the newer earthquakes near Richmond, Virginia, the 6.5 Richter scale earthquake in Central California, and the earthquake killing thousands of innocent people in Iran all occurring just in late December 2003 alone!!! Prophecy is here. AIDS, SARS, STDs, Anthrax, mad cow disease, ricin, flu, biological warfare, etc. in the 20th-21st centuries and beyond have formulated more than all plagues in recorded history combined. Millions are dead in just 100 years.

d). Matthews 24:6 Wars are common place now especially after when we were attacked by our own government and the Illuminati in 9/11. 8,000 treaties have been made and broken, an any day soldiers are fighting in 30-40 nations, 7 million people died since the 1970’s due to war, and over 100 million people have died in all wars during the 1900’s including the reign of Communism at Vietnam, Russia, China, Angola, China, etc.

e). Daniel 12:4 The time of the end is now with knowledge increasing at an unheard of rate. In 1991, knowledge doubled every 10 years and now it doubles in every 22 months.

f). Nahum 2:4 The fast travel of vehicles are prophesized here in using chariots=vehicles. The Bible also describes flying vehicles or airplanes in prophecy.

g). Matthews 24:2 Jesus predicted the destruction of Jerusalem and it happened along with its Second Temple at 70 A.D. when Roman armies under Titus killed 1.1 million Jewish people for 143 days. Josephus, the great Jewish historian, even recounted his very destruction and wrote about Christ.

h). Psalm 22:16 The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is shown here. This was written at 1020 B.C.-970 B.C. centuries before the Persians, Greeks, and the Romans invented crucifixions. This was fulfilled on Mark 15:25 plus ton of other verses. Over 300 prophecies exist describing the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

i). Revelation 9:21 Drug increase is made manifest. Sorceries is from the Greek word Pharmacia meaning drugs or an enactment with drugs like alcohol, cocaine, tobacco, marijuana, heroin, etc. which are all evil inheritably in drug use. Therefore we use a pharmacy as a location to receive drugs.

j). Revelation 3:13-17 The majority of the Christian churches today are lukewarm through Satan, the United Nations, WCC (World Council of Churches), ecumenicalism, etc.

Many churches have compromised and even accepted abortion, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity among youth, adultery, pornography, evil sexual lusts, effeminate males, laziness, false doctrines, false doctrines like being rich=favor by God, racism, etc. as legitimate concepts to embrace. ‘Tis better to go to an independent, Post-Tribulational Church to acquire real truth and real doctrines.

k). Genesis 11:4-7, Revelation 13:5-8 The formation of the one world government or the New World Order is just here. There are dozens of speeches orated by President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, and others constantly referring to a “New World Order.”

The Bible says that the Anti-Christ will head the global government as its ruler with the Satanic United Nations having a say in the one-world government as well. NAFTA, WTO, American Union, GATT, ASEAU, and the European Union (with its natural coin called the Euro Dollar formed at January 1, 2003) are basically the foundational groups for the coming one world government.

*More and more prophecies can be presented, but these portions are strident.

Other prophecies i nclude microchip technology, atomic, or nuclear weaponry, scoffers, folks not embracing sound doctrine like mandatory celibacy for clergy and vegetarianism as Paul said “abstaining from meats”, increased public displays of Satanism as the Bible says embracing “the doctrine of devils”, television used as the whole world witnessing the execution of the death of the 2 witnesses (Elijah and Enoch), lying prophets and liars claiming to be Christ, etc.

The end of the Tribulation will be the resurrection, the coming of the New Millennium, final victory of Jesus Christ, the New Jerusalem, and a New Heaven and a New Earth with a peaceful eternity with Almighty God. Now that’s the truth and real prophecy in front of your eyes.

By TruthSeeker24