The name of my website is Bible apologetics. Just what does the word apologetics mean? Basically, it is that field of study that attempts to defend the Christian faith and the Bible. Back in 1990 when I wrote my book, The Challenge, pictured above, I attempted to defend the Bible and lay out the case for why I believe the Bible is the most unique, influential, and intellectually compelling book ever written. In addition, I attempted to show why the Bible is a book of absolute truth and life transformational.
Over the years since then, I have realized more and more that the Bible does not really need anyone to defend itself because for over 2,000 years it has withstood the test of time and today still stands head and shoulders above any other book as the absolute standard of morality, comfort, and wisdom. I love what the great nineteenth century British preacher, Charles Spurgeon, once said in reference to the Bible: “Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself.”1
As you have probably seen if you have been reading my devotionals for a while the Bible has withstood any and all attacks down through the centuries as to its veracity in a host of areas. Whether it be in the area of the Bible’s historical accuracy, its reliable scientific statements, its amazingly accurate prophecies, and its honest claims about the sinfulness of humanity, the Bible is in a class by itself. In today’s devotion let’s discuss one area to show you what I mean: The Bible’s historical accuracy.
Up until the middle of the 1800’s people use to laugh when told that the Bible is historically accurate in all it says. Back then detractors of this claim said that why should we believe that the Bible is historically accurate when many of the claims it makes have no external evidence outside of the Bible’s affirmations to support its historical truth. While this may have been true back then thanks to numerous archaeological digs over the past 150 years this is no longer the case. Archaeologists during this period have been able, through diligent scientific research and methods, to validate countless biblical narratives as irrefutable and historically accurate. In future devotions I will share several amazing stories to show you why the Bible is without a doubt a first-rate book of history.
I really appreciate what German journalist Werner Keller shared in his 1955 ten million copy bestselling book, on the Bible and archaeology, The Bible as History. In the closing words of his introduction Mr. Keller stated: “In view of the overwhelming mass of authentic and well-attested evidence now available, as I thought of the skeptical criticism which from the eighteenth century onward would fain have demolished the Bible altogether, there kept hammering in my brain this one sentence: The Bible is right after all.”2
If archaeology has proven that the Bible is spot on in so many of its historical references I for one feel confident to extrapolate back to the beginning of time and believe such events as the creation of the universe, a literal Adam and Eve, a global flood, and many others, where archaeology can’t establish the truthfulness of these events.
Please feel free to drop me a line at my email curt717@yahoo.com if there are any future topics you might like me to cover in my daily devotions.
1 https://www.winchesterroadchurch.org/single-post/2017/12/17/Turn-the-bible-loose-it-will-defend-itself#!
2 Werner Keller, The Bible as History (New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1980), Introduction, p. xxv.