The Bible Part 4, Its Unique Survivability

  Many of us think that the Bible is under attack like no other time in history.  While this may be true in some sense (because there are more Bibles available and a larger population of people), the Bible has always been under attack in more ways than any other book.


  Before the printing press, there were handwritten manuscripts kept in safe places which together made up the Old Testament of the Bible.


 In A.D. 300 the Roman emperor Diocletian ordered every Bible burned because he thought that by destroying the Scriptures he could destroy Christianity. Anyone caught with a Bible would be executed. But just 25 years later, the Roman emperor Constantine ordered that 50 perfect copies of the Bible be made at government expense. The French philosopher Voltaire, a skeptic who destroyed the faith of many people, boasted that within 100 years of his death, the Bible would disappear from the face of the earth. 


  Voltaire died in 1728, but the Bible lives on. The irony of history is that 50 years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society moved into his former house and used his printing presses to print thousands of Bibles. 


   No other book has been so attacked throughout history as the Bible.  Isn't it strange that book banning and burning has met with great public protest and outcry. But when it comes to banning the Bible or wanting to destroy its credibility, many cheer that on.  Do you ever wonder why???



 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first." (Jesus).