Religion & Spirituality
What?: 2 Tim, chapter 3, verse 16 says that all Scripture was breathed out by God. The whole Bible, then, has God as its author. But, God used approximately 40 men over fifteen hundred years to write down what we have as the Holy Bible. Those men, writing in their own styles and in their own languages wrote the very words of God. The problem is that we don't have a single original document from any of those authors. So how trustworthy are the Bibles we have? Scholars have been studying that for more than a century. What they've concluded is that we can be certain of more than 99% of all the words written in the original languages that are used to translate the Bible into our modern English. Of the less than 1% of words that are in question, NONE affect any historic Christian doctrine. So What?: So, while scholars can debate the few uncertain words, as teachers of the Bible, we can be certain that what we are teaching is based on the very words God had those men write down so long ago. So What Now?: Rather than spend time questioning the validity of any Bible word, we can spend our time helping our learners apply the Bible, as the Word of God, to their lives. The Bible we have is trustworthy because its author is trustworthy.