Thoughts on the Bible

Man, I just felt like praising God today as I listened to Chad Sparks (http://chadsparksblog.blogspot.com/) talk about how we got the Bible. It just amazes me how so many people set out to disprove an infallible word. And just how God inspired different people to write the books of the Bible in varying styles and levels of education, but they all say the same thing: Jesus is God who saves and loves us! Even the hundreds of manuscripts of Aristotle, Plato, and even Aesop's Fables have many discrepancies in them, sometimes jeopardizing the meaning of the passage and changing the story. But, the Bible, in its hundreds of different manuscripts has so few discrepancies between them, that all the differences (which is just word order and spelling issues, no story changing here) would fit onto one-half of a page in your Bible! It's amazing how God's hand is seen in the passing down of the Bible; from its conception to thousands of years later, it is the same. God's Word is completely true. It does not disprove itself or have discrepancies within itself. Just check out Psalm 119. "The Word of the Lord is flawless," says Psalm 18:30. Psalm 19 talks about how God shows himself to us. Praise God for revealing himself to us through his creation, through the prophets, through the scriptures, and through his Son. Praise God that he, as our creator, did not just leave evidence of himself to be observed by us, the intelligent beings he created, but he intentionally communicates himself to us. I can truly say I believe in the sole authority and inerrancy of the Bible.