A best seller today will sell upward of 100,000 copies. Although most best sellers will run high on sales charts for months, the rate of sales will drop and the book will go out of print. Since around 1450, when printing came into its own the Bible has sold well over 1 billion copies.

Millions in a variety of versions are regularly being sold.

Is it reasonable to assume that the Creator would desire to communicate His mind and will to the creature through words? Is such a revelation actual?

First, it's obvious that God, who created man could communicate with him.

Second, it is also reasonable to assume that the God who gave to man the ability to communicate his thoughts to others through words would use words to communicate to man.

Third, to prove that this revelation is actual, evidence both internal and external would be given so you may decide for yourself if God is truly the author of the Bible.

If the Bible is God's Word, then it must be the most authoritative revelation in the universe. Its reliability would be unmatched. It could not depend on something outside itself to prove its truthfulness; otherwise, that outside source would be more reliable than God's own word.

If the Bible were written by one or a team of men over a period of years, then the fact that the individual chapters should unite in forming one complete story would not be surprising. But the 66 books of the Bible were written by 40 men, over a period of 1,600 years in different places from Babylon to Rome. The original writings are in three languages, with different styles and viewpoints and contain prose and poetry as well as law, history, philosophy, doctrine, prophecy and ethics. Yet, the Scriptures tell one complete story with an undeniable unity throughout. No one writer contradicts another All the parts go together into one harmonious whole.

Many have worked hard to find some fact that would contradict the Bible, but scientific facts have only confirmed the accounts of the Bible. The late Melvin G. Kyle, an archaeologist, said, "There has never been found anything that discredits statements of facts in the Bible."

If the Bible agreed with modern scientific theory, it would soon be out of date, like most of yesterday's unproven scientific theories.

Frederick the Great said to one of his marshals, "Give me in one word a proof of the truth of the Bible."

The marshal replied simply, "The Jews."

People by the thousands throughout history have found the truths of the Bible to be real in their own experience. The lives of people have been radically changed by believing the facts of the Bible.

The Bible is historically correct. No one has ever proved otherwise. The more we learn of history, the more the Bible is validated. Hundreds of statements in the Bible, which in times past have been held untrue by enemies of the Bible, have recently been proven true by archaeologists. The more that archaeologists find from the past, the more the Bible is proven accurate historically. No archaeological discovery has ever disproved a biblical reference. The Bible is trustworthy and historically reliable. Down through the ages, many have doubted the historical and geographical accuracy of the Bible. Yet modern archeologists have repeatedly unearthed evidence of the people, places, and cultures described in the Scriptures. Time after time, the descriptions in the biblical record have been shown to be more reliable than the speculations of scholars. The modern visitor to the museums and lands of the Bible cannot help but come away impressed with the real geographical and historical backdrop of the biblical text.

The purpose of the Bible is to reveal God to mankind, and get us to come to God through Jesus Christ, so we can know Him.

(Hosea 4:6 NLT) My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me. Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.

Proverbs 28:9,10 The prayers of a person who ignores the law are despised. Those who lead the upright into sin will fall into their own trap, but the honest will inherit good things.

Isiah 59:1,2 Listen! The LORD is not too weak to save you, and he is not becoming deaf. He can hear you when you call. But there is a problem--your sins have cut you off from God. Because of your sin, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.

 Zech. 7:12,13 They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the law or the messages that the LORD Almighty had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the LORD Almighty was so angry with them. "Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the LORD Almighty.