Number 12 Flashcards
(12 cards)
How many Greek manuscripts were there and early versions?
Over 5,800 Greek Manuscripts and over 25,000 early versions
Add to this, the startling fact that even if all manuscripts of the New Testament were lost, almost the entire text could be recovered (though partially paraphrased and not in order) from quotes in the writings of the_____ _____ _____, with over 36,000 quotes in the first three centuries alone
Early Church Fathers
The text could also be completely recovered from the thousands of early____(books used for corporate Bible reading in the early church)
Lectionaries
When any cult, liberal, or skeptic claims that we cannot be sure if we have what was originally written, you can be sure that they don’t have the faintest idea of what they are talking about
True
The ____ is the number one best seller of all time
Bible
The Bible was the first major book ever________
Translated
The _____ has been translated into more languages than any other book, over 1000 more languages than the second place book
Bible
The Bible was the first book ever put into codex (modern Book) form, which was actually developed for the Bible
True
The Bible was the first book ever printed
True
The Bible contains the _____ written history in existence
Oldest
The Bible was the first book taken to and read from _______
Space
The ______ is the Foundation of the Modern Scientific Method
Bible -
Our modern age of scientific discovery would have been impossible without the Bible. The scientific method could never have been born under the fatalism of Islam or the non-– reality view of matter held by Hinduism and eastern religions. The great fathers of the various fields of science were almost exclusively Christian
