Then consider the Bible's indestructibility, and of the opposition this Book has had. It

has been well said that if any human book had had only a fraction of the opposition the

Bible has received it would have been swept to oblivion. But this Book still flourishes

in spite of atheists and opponents; it is the world's best seller! Note, also, how it

marvelously endures translation. There are over one thousand translations of the Bible

existing today, and when you translate from one language to another you are bound to

lose something, yet in spite of this it still speaks with power and authority; it still has

something supernatural in it that changes people's lives. What is it that this Book has

that other books have not? Nothing less than God's infallible Truth, and the power of

God to quicken into life.

Then think of the testimony of archaeology and the things that men have dug up from

the earth. Has there been anything found to disprove the Bible? Never! Everything that

has been dug up from the soil confirms its claims. Just one point we would like to bring

to the reader. It used to be said that Moses could not have written the Pentateuch because

writing was unknown in his time, but if you go to the British Museum you can see there

the Tel-el-Amarna tablets which were unearthed by archaeologists and prove most

definitely that writing was known a hundred years before Moses lived! Everything that is

dug up from the earth confirms this fact--that the Bible is true.

The last thing we would mention, and this is really the most important, what was the

witness of the Lord Jesus Christ? What was His attitude to the O.T. scriptures that

existed in His day?  There are many who profess and call themselves Christians--

Christ-ians--followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. If we faithfully follow the Lord Jesus

Christ, His attitude must be our attitude, otherwise we are not true Christ-ians. He said,

as it is recorded in the fifth chapter of John, "Had ye believed Moses ye would have

believed Me, for he wrote of Me". Mark you, this is the Lord Jesus Christ speaking and

asserting that Moses, centuries before, wrote of Him. But how did Moses know about

Christ in the O.T. days? But Christ said he did--"he wrote of Me". Furthermore, He

added, "If you believe not his writings how shall ye believe My words?" If you cannot

believe the first five books of the Bible written by Moses, He said, you certainly cannot

believe Me. So you see the importance Christ puts on the Pentateuch. He also said this:

"Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all

be fulfilled (Matt. 5: 18); not the smallest Hebrew letter, not the smallest crest on a letter,

would pass unfulfilled, He said. On another occasion He sated, "the scripture cannot be

broken". Still further, in John 17:, in the prayer to His Father in heaven, He declared,

"Thy Word is truth". There are people who say that when the Lord Jesus walked the

earth He accepted the current Jewish notions of His time; some of them were mistaken,

they tell us. But in resurrection with no such limitations, He declared (Luke 24: 44),

"All things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, in the Prophets and

in the Psalms concerning Me". This was the three-fold division of the O.T., and the Lord

underlines its truth. You will not find one incident or one saying of Christ which belittles

the O.T. scriptures or suggests they were wrong in any way whatever;  rather His

approach was always with reverence and giving them their proper place as the Word of

God. If we profess, and call ourselves Christians, if we want truth, then our attitude must