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GUEST ARTICLE
10
Facts about the Bible
Here is a list of
10 facts about the Bible.
Fact
# 1
The
Protestant Bible in use today contains 66 Books. 39 of
the books are in the Old Testament and 27 are found in
the New Testament.
Fact
# 2
Most
of the Old Testament is written in Hebrew, the language
spoken by the Israelites.
Except
for a few words and sentences, the New Testament was composed
in Greek, the common language in the Hellenistic world.
Fact
# 3
Although
the Bible was written over a period of about 1400 years,
its text has come to us in a remarkable state of preservation.
This preservation was possible because of the large number
of manuscripts found.
The
New Testament evidence for reliability is almost embarrassingly
large. It includes about 4500 Greek manuscripts beginning
about A.D. 125.
Fact
# 4
The
books of the Bible originally had no chapters or verses.
Now that is a cool Bible fact.
Fact
# 5
The
Bible, in whole or in part, is now available in more than
1100 different languages and dialects.
Fact
# 6
In
the earliest days of English Christianity the only know
Bible was the Latin Vulgate, made by Jerome between A.D.
383 and 405. This version of the Bible could only be read
by the clergy.
Fact
# 7
When
Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, the crown was passed on to
James I, who had been king of Scotland for 37 years as
James VI. Several months after he began the pursuit of
a new Bible translation. It was completed in 1611 and is
now know as the King James Version.
Fact
# 8
The
authors of the New Testament appealed to their audience
because they all had first hand knowledge of the Person
of Jesus Christ.
Fact
# 9
The
two Testaments form two volumes of one work. The first
is incomplete without the second and second cannot be understood
without the first. Together they are Gods revelation to
man of the provision He had made for human salvation.
Fact
# 10
The
theme of the Bible is the same in both the Old and New
Testaments. It is the redemption of man.
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