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WHAT IS THE BIBLE? PART 2

Proverbs 30:5 says that every word of God is true. John 10:35 says that Scripture cannot be broken. Psalm 12:6 says the words of the Lord are pure.  Obviously, if God is perfect, and God has spoken, it would naturally mean that all that was written in the inspired documents is without error.  Infallibility is related to inerrancy--but means more powerfully:  not able to be wrong.  

WHAT IS THE BIBLE?

According to Guinness, the Bible is still the world’s most distributed book (link). At the time of this article, the Bible has been translated into 1,659 languages. And between 1815 and 1975, some 2.5 billion Bibles were printed, of which 1.5 billion were handled by Bible societies. Within its 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 41,173 verses, and 774,746 words, we read about a variety of topics from religion, love, war, history, poetry, foretelling the future, songs, and wise sayings. We read narratives about betrayal, bravery, honor, cowardice, obedience, and rebellion.