Discovering the Bible

Your discovery of the Bible could be an adventure that lasts your whole
lifetime! Sound ridiculous? Maybe, but
there is an incredibly long line of people stretching for thousands of years
who would insist it is true. Stop and
think. Long, long before the world knew anything of television,
radio,CDs,airplanes, automobiles, electricity, long
before the world ever heard of Coca Cola, IBM,SONY, or microwave ovens,
a book that later became known as
The Biblewas written that would be like none other. This book was even
finished centuries before printing was
available to mass produce books, and in those earlier centuries every copy
of this book had to be done by hand.
In every generation since it was written, it has been revered and looked to
as a source of understanding our
world, our humanity, our relationships, our reason for existence. Accept the
possibility that the best things in our
Western world,a world that slowly and painfully emerged from barbarism
to an advanced civilization,emerged
largely from the inspiration provided by the Bible. It played a central role in
the formation of our culture. But
now the flowers of that civilization, as someone put it, are cut off from the
roots and are already beginning to
wilt in the vase. Look at the solutions and cures that are typically offered.
Do they give you much hope? Might it
be that the way forward is to go back to the path we drifted from,to
recover our roots, to rediscover the Bible?