TRUTH
Welcome once more to our newest contributor, prolific Christian author, Marilyn Brown. Marilyn has written a very comprehensive explanation of what the Bible is – The Truth – and how it is constructed. Because of the length of this most scholarly work, if you wish to read the entire document, please click this link: https://www.fastmailusercontent.com/jmap/download/uc8f34144/G7e7f510223d96f233c65405ffc9d538298fa3641/THE%20BIBLE.docx?u=c8f34144&access_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJiY2VhOTgyZWNhNDE5NzY0ZjA3ODEyMWY1NmE2NTc1NTA5MDU1YzkyIiwic3ViIjoieGdoeTJISlRaZHV1bXVaN2U0WjhXQW04eUo5ek84dHlOcEFpV3o0b21RWSIsImlhdCI6MTYxNDgxMjQwMH0.pJ67GYAYcZ-ZRg38B_AqZ3yeP9J6g07l4gbOgFzfZ0s&accept=application%2Fvnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document and I shall send you a link. Many thanks Marilyn for sharing this significant work. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley THE BIBLE Compiled by Marilyn Brown (A synopsis). Several years ago, a friend, who had come out of Buddhism and embraced Christianity when she was in University, made the comment that “the Bible was full of errors“. I assured her that that was not the case, but she was quite vehement in her affirmation that it was and, as it was not the time or the place to pursue the argument, I had to let it drop. As we are commanded in I Peter 3:15 to “always be ready to give a defence to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you,” over the years since I have sought to clarify in my own mind the reasons that we can indeed have faith in God’s love letter to us – His precious Word, our Bible. This is the result of that search. THE BIBLE’S CREDENTIALS A few years ago, The New Yorker magazine carried an article entitled, “The Great Book Business and Why Publishers Love the Bible”. The writers made a remarkable claim: “The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures an even more startling fact – that is, that the Bible is the Best-selling Book of the Year every single year!” In the United States alone, 50 Bibles are sold every minute, 72,000 are sold every day,…