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been unearthed and tablets found that prove the
accuracy of the Bible narrative. These tablets corroborate the stories of the creation and
fall of man, of the flood, the tower of Babel, the bondage in Egypt, the captivity, and
many other things. This accuracy gives us confidence in the reality of the book.
4. Its Scientific Accuracy. At the time of the writing of the Bible. there were all sorts of
crude and superstitious stories about the earth and all its creatures and processes. It was
humanly impossible for a book to have been written that would stand the teat of scientific
research, and yet at every point it has proven true to the facts of nature. Its teachings
areas to the creation of all animal life is proven in science, in that not a single new
species has come into existence within the history of man and his research or experiment.
David said the sun traveled in a circuit (Ps. 19:6), and science has proven his statement.
Job said the wind had weight (Job 28:25) and science has finally verified it. That the
earth is suspended In space with no visible support is declared by Job, who said that "God
hangeth the earth upon nothing", Job 26:7. Besides these and other specific teachings of
science which correspond to Bible utterances, the whole general teachings of the
scripture is sustained by our investigations. Many theories have been advanced that
contradicted the Bible (at one time a French Institution of Science claimed that there were
eighty hostile theories), but not a single such theory has stood. Wherever a teaching of
science contradicting the Bible has ever been advanced, it has been proven false, while
the Bible was found to correspond to the facts.
5. Its Prophetic Accuracy. At least sixteen prophets prophesied concerning future events.
They told of the coming destruction of cities and empires, calling them by name. They
told of new kingdoms. They told of the coming of Christ, his nativity, the place of his
birth, and the result of his life and death and made no mistake.
Christ himself showed how their old prophecies were fulfilled in Him. He told the
destruction of Jerusalem and the nature of his Kingdom and work, all of which has been

shown to be true. No other but a Divine book could have foretold the future in detail.
6. The Richness and Universality of Its Teachings. Its contents are fresh and new to every
age and people. Its teachings furnish the highest standards for right human government
and for personal purity of character. Its virtues are superior to all others. Every generation
finds new and wonderful treasures in it, and while hundreds of thousands of books have
been written about it, one feels that it is still a mine, the riches of whose literary
excellence, moral beauty and lofty thought have scarcely been touched.
7. The Fairness and Candor of Its Writers. In portraying its heroes, the Bible does not
attempt any gloss. Their faults are neither covered up nor condoned, but condemned. This
is unlike all other books.
8. Its Solution of Man's Difficulties. What is the origin of the world? What is the origin of
man? How came sin in the world? Will there be punishment of sin that will satisfy the
unfairness and inequalities of life? Is there redemption for weak and helpless man? Is
there a future life? These are some of the questions that have troubled man in all ages.
The Bible alone answers them in a simple yet adequate way. It alone gives us the
knowledge of the way to secure happiness. Its remedies alone furnish a certain balm for
bruised human hearts.
9. Its Miracles. The Bible, which records how God sent his son and others on special
missions, also tells how He attested their work by signs or miracles. These miracles were
performed in the presence of creditable witnesses and should, therefore, be believed.
Moreover, they are so different from the superhuman deeds of ancient mythology as to
stamp them as divine and true and at the same time to discredit all the false.
Bible miracles are never for mere exploitation or for personal profit to the one who
performs the miracle. They are for the good of others. The blind and deaf and lame are
healed. The sick and dead are raised. Lepers are cured and sins forgiven. Moreover, those
who perform the miracle claim no power of their own, but attribute it all to God and only
perform the miracle that God may be exalted.
10. Its Spiritual Character. It is evident that man alone could not have conceived the lofty
ideas of the scripture. All his experience proves that he can not produce anything so far
beyond himself. These high truths therefore,