God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Bible is a history book.
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.
I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.
The Bible was written by fallible human beings.