Watch the Sermon — Is the Bible Really Reliable?

The numbers are staggering. The New Testament survives in 5,800+ Greek manuscripts — some copied just 20 to 65 years after the events. Homer's Iliad? The earliest copy is 400 years out. Plato? 1,300 years.

Nobody questions Homer or Plato. They question the Bible — because it's alive, and it makes demands on our lives. Hear Pastor Kent make the manuscript case from 2 Peter 1.

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This stopped me cold.

The New Testament survives in 5,800+ manuscripts — some copied 20 to 65 years after the events. Homer's earliest copy is 400 years out. Plato's is 1,300.

Nobody questions Homer or Plato. We question the Bible — because it makes demands on us.

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"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword…" (Hebrews 4:12).

But here's the hard part: the most reliable book in history does you absolutely no good if you never open it. 68% of Americans read the Bible less than once a year. Pastor Kent's challenge this week is simple — get into the Word.

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Conviction this week:

The Bible is the most reliable book in history — but it does me absolutely no good if I never open it.

68% of Americans read it less than once a year. I don't want to be one of them.

Getting into the Word.

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A PhD advisor laid out the giants of Western thought — Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hume — and set a Bible off to the side. "You know the difference between these books and that book?" he asked. Then he answered his own question: "That book's alive."

Thousands of years later, Scripture still reads us back. Hear Pastor Kent on why the Bible is unlike any other book ever written.

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A professor laid the great philosophers on the table — Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hume — and set a Bible off to the side.

"You know the difference between these books and that book?"

"That book's alive."

Still true. It still reads me back.

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Forty years ago a young woman named Olga picked up a Bible from the rack in front of her. She wasn't even a Christian yet. She took it home, set it down, and — before she had read a single word — thought: "This book is going to change my life."

It did. Today she and her husband are following Christ out in Colorado. Hear the whole story from Pastor Kent.

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40 years ago Olga picked up a Bible off the rack. She wasn't even a Christian yet.

She took it home, set it down, and before she'd read a single word she thought:

"This book is going to change my life."

It did. Still is.

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