The Old Testament scriptures were composed and compiled across time.

The thirty-nine book of the Hebrew and Imperial Aramaic writings revealing that there is One God who has covenanted to bring knowledge of Himself and redemption from sin by His Son to the ends of the earth through continues perfectly into the twenty-seven books-letters, testimonies, histories, all written in Koine Greek-emerging after the life, death, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth. And the Bible remains as contemporary today as it was when God wrote the Ten Commandments on stone tablets in the fourteenth century BC and gave them to Moses. This collection of ancient writings born out of oral tradition, self-attesting that Almighty God Himself inspired the Sacred Text as He spoke through the prophets, priests, and kings, as well as ordinary men and women, was recorded and compiled across hundreds of years. The Holy Bible is an unrivaled powerhouse that, by its message, has instituted hospitals, orphanages, unleashed liberty in human government, introduced domesticity to barbarians (I am of British stock and think of my own ancestors whose pagan religions led to unimaginable sorrow and cultures that were unsustainable), and, ultimately and positively shaped the great spheres of human governance in the home, the Church, and the State. The Bible is loved in Bombay as in Birmingham, in London as is Lisbon, and in Nepal as in Nicaragua.

The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, projects universal truth that remains applicable to people around the world. Despite the impressive diversity of authors, genre-from history to poetry, from prophecy to personal accounts-and languages, the Bible displays an irrefutable unity of purpose, undivided harmony of thought, an unfolding narrative that is both unified and progressive. It is the Holy Bible: a collection of sixty-six books composed and compiled over 2,000 years by forty authors on three continents.

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