C- which only speaks all the more to its solidarity when one looks at the vast amount of time that spanned the writing of the two testaments. most of the writers never met each other. yet all 66 books are in tune with one another and shed light on one another as though they were written by one author. i have heard it quipped and i heartily agree: “the OT is the NT concealed and the NT is the OT revealed.”

Furthermore, the Scriptures themselves say, “Scripture cannot be broken.” and indeed it has never yet and never will as more and more archaeology, science and history continues to be unraveled and the accounts of the Bible are proven to be so perfectly accurate. It is the most accurate document known to man and it has literally changed the world- wherever it goes it brings freedom and enlightenment- and you can ask those in South America, Asia and the Middle East- it is a book worth dying for- and many to this day DO die for simply having it in their possession. Don’t believe me? go to persecution.com or Voice of the Martyrs and see for yourself. The very form of English we speak, most of the great writers of the English language which we cherish as literary giants- derived their literary genius from the English Bible- without which even Shakespeare would be a nothing inspite of all his creativity-as his wording is derived from the style that Tyndale imparted to his translations by using the Greek and Hebrew instead of the Latin. No other document is so frequently quoted in other works- indeed it is well justified to add a course to literature that serves to help sutdents understand and identify the biblical analogies and references that we find throughout Euro-American literature- and there are such courses in public schools today.

The Bible remains the best-selling book of all time- so much so that booksellers no longer bother to add it to their charts- there must obviously be something to such a book that has garnered such respect from every corner of the globe in every language into which it is translated- that evil men work so hard to suppress to their own folly.

To say such an impactful and singular work as the Bible is merely the work of men is a gross lie and misrepresentation. No man is capable of creating a work that can reach into every culture and every age and be just as meaningful as it was to its original recipients. But when men are inspired by an all-knowing God- that’s exactly what we’d expect- and that’s exactly what we have.

@huginn - 

“When Biblical canon was set, the disagreeing books were culled.”

Really? What books are you speaking of specifically? the gnostic gospels- all of which the earliest christians unanimously rejected as heresy? The Apocrypha? The Jews never even took those books seriously- some do contain history but they were never held as spiritual canon. The Catholics still use it though… I am not aware of any books that were discarded that were known to be canon among the early Christians- that’s not even what the councils such as the Council of Nicea were about. The canon of the NT must match the prophesy and revelation of the OT- if they disagree then they are false- and such is true with all the gnostic gospels- they all deny something that is key to the person of Christ and pose “hidden knowledge” and not the Lord Jesus Christ as the true means of salvation. The OT is very clear that the Messiah will save his people- not hidden knowledge.

“By “science,” I really hope you don’t mean young earth creationism. -_”

You Darwinists all to convieniently forget that for the fathers of nearly every discipline of science, the Bible was their beginning reference point and they were able to make astounding discoveries by taking God’s Word seriously. Galileo and Copernicus, Bacon, Boyle, to name just a small handful. To this day even modern scientists have been able to make accurate predictions and findings on the basis of Scripture- I’ll give you one you can look into personally on his research in astronomy- Dr. Russell Humphreys- his calculations on the formation of the giant gas body planets Uranus and Neptune have proven superior to secular calculations based on an evolutionary view of the universe’s origins. He also created a thoery on how it would be physically possible for the stars to be created on Day 4 according to Genesis 1 and be visible that very night. And he is one of many many many scientists who are doing effective study and research and such in the active fields of science today. Ever had an MRI or know someone who has? A creationist invented that technology….

One final thought worth taking into consideration- creationists and evolutionists have the same data, the same fossils, the intelligence and the same capability to perform in their fields. The difference is not the facts but the interpretation each comes to based on their preconceived ideas about the world around them. Suppose you find a fossil. The only objective part of your study of that fossil is actually just finding the fossil- the rest involves subjective interpretation.

“History will also show us that it is also a book worth killing for.”

Not in the sense that killing is actually promoted by the Bible. After all the 10 Commandments lists “Thou shalt not murder.” And Jesus took it a step further in the Sermon on the Mount and made it plain that hating someone is tantamount to murder. The OT speaks of the wars of the Jews entering their Promised Land- but the people living in Canaan at that time had well over 400 years to straighten up and fly right and quit their evil child sacrifices and other dispicable behaviors but they ignored the warnings. They had an additional 40 years while the Jews wandered around in the wilderness to consider leaving the area before the Jews invaded, but did they heed the warnings? No. So their blood is upon their own heads- they had their chance. But Israel as a nation and Christianity are not the same. God set up the nation of Israel in order to bring about the fulfillment of His promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 by bringing up the Messiah in their midst- and now that Christ has come and fulfilled the hundreds of prophesies about his life and ministry and death He has scrapped the old system of a political state and sent his followers into the world under the New Covenant in order to preach the Gospel message of salvation to the ends of the Earth. Now the only warfare Christians are to engage in for the name of Christ is a spiritual battle as described in Ephesians 6. We don’t have a physical war to engage in to bring this message to the nations- in deed, Christians often died in order to tell hostile peoples about Christ and were kind to their persecutors to the very end. This doesn’t mean that Christians aren’t allowed to join the army or anything- indeed Cornelius was a centurion in the Roman Army and there is no mention made of him having to give up his job in order to convert. But to fight for one’s country is not the same is fighting for a religious cause, now is it?

The Crusades, the witch hunts, the Inquisitions, and their like were not promoted in Scripture but by men wresting Scripture to achieve political ends. Pope Urban II was probably not a true Christian if he sent tens of thousands of rather ignorant Europeans down to retake (as in it was theirs to begin with- the Muslims took it over in their own bloody crusades during the 700s and 800s- and have never stopped shedding blood- look into the hundreds of years that the Moors of Spain did great evil and violence to Spanish Christendom- or how even as we speak African Muslims make a regular habit of capturing and torturing or even enslaving and killing African Christians- ask the Sudanese especially) Jerusalem and the Holy Lands and that all who went would have their sins forgiven- obvious heresy there. The Inquisitions and witch hunts were similarly spear-headed by power-hungry corrupt politicians who used their religious influence to do harm to others. The Bible was most obviously misrepresented to the masses (who at that time were not allowed to read the Bible for themselves in their own language- gotta love Catholic history). The Reformation- while itself was not a golden age- did help to reverse this ignorance as the Bible began to be translated and distributed among the common people. Had medeval Christians known the Scriptures for themselves they most likely would’ve opposed those heinous crimes of history…

 Christians don’t need to worry about fighting for a physical kingdom on this Earth- our home is not here, we’re just here until we die. The true church was never confined to any one people group in the sense of a national identity although Christians have had a prominent role in the founding of our nation and the history of Europe.

“I’ll name one: Principia Mathematica. Take away the Bible and you’d have a lot of sad folks. Take away calulus and Newtonian mechanics, you’d have lots of dead folks.”

Actually you only all the more establish my point. Newton also used the Bible for his basis in his scientific and mathematical research. He understood the universe to be understandable in mathematical terms because math in itself is a language and language presumes intelligence and thus only an intelligent being could have constructed the universe in such a way as for it to make sense to us. You secular scientists have to illogically assume this point (that the universe should make sense) in order for you to even begin to conceive of the idea of performing scientific study. Why should the universe make sense in mathematical language if it was not indeed designed? You don’t get 747s from explosions in jet hangers. You don’t derive order from non order. An effect can never be greater than its cause (another Newtonian law- for every action the must be an equal and opposite reaction) therefore an intelligible universe could never come from something that was not itself intelligent- thus God. And Newton understood this from his belief in God’s Word- the Bible was his inspiration and thus the Bible is still superior to his research.

“An all-knowing, all-perfect God wouldn’t use singular human vessels as his medium, he’d beam the knowledge directly into our heads.”

In a way He has. But men, being born with a sinful nature “suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” Since the fall of Adam mankind has been enemies with God and are willingly ignorant of the truth until God reveals himself to their hearts. While God used men to write the Bible, that has not always been His only means of reaching people. I continue to hear of spontaneous conversions of individuals living in nations closed off to the Gospel. The Muslims take dreams very seriously and I’ve read more than one account of a devout Muslim going to bed at night and waking the next day a Christian because Christ came to them in their dream and revealed Himself to them. These Muslims have never read the Bible- in many of those countries the very possession of a Bible is grounds for capital punishment and conversion too. So yes, God does “beam knowledge directly into our heads.” That doesn’t make the Bible any less inspired because the Spirit of God will never tell anyone contrary to that which is written in the Bible- that is how Christians can test the spirits they hear in their conscience in order to determine if they are of Satan or of God.