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Let’s Practice…

1. What word for the Bible references how the book was bound for reading?

2. What word for the Bible is based on the word “graph” or “writing?”

3. What is the word for the Bible based on the word, logos, or “expression of God?”

4. Jesus quotes from the Old Testament and refers to the Bible as

5. Name at least four other words that are used for referencing the Bible.

6. The Bible was written over a period of years by different
people who lived on different continents.

7. Describe how the Bible is unique in its textual reliability:

8. What percentage of the over 5,600 ancient manuscripts agree in content and grammar?

9. How many variants (differences) appear within these 5,600 manuscripts?

10. The authors of Scripture completed writing within years of the events described.

11. Why is that information significant?

12. Besides having textual validity, what other witness comes from believers of the Bible?

13. A final verifying factor of the Bible is Bible prophecy. How many prophecies are there in the Old
Testament that foretold of the coming of Messiah?

14. What are the chances that even eight of those prophecies could be fulfilled in one person?

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