La Biblia compuesta por 66 libros y escrita por más de 1,500 años en tres continentes (Asia, África y Europa) por más de cuarenta autores, la Biblia es única. No hay otro libro, sagrado o religioso, como este. Y no es de extrañar. Después de todo, es la Palabra de Dios.
There are more than 24,600 extant New Testament manuscripts from the first four centuries after Al-Masih. Of Plato’s original manuscripts, there are seven, Herodotus eight, and Homer’s Iliad slightly more with 263 surviving copies. Hence, we have powerful confirming evidence of the integrity of the New Testament text.
The Bible was the first book known to be translated, the first book in the West published on the printing press, and the first book to be so widely distributed in so many languages that it can be read by 95 percent of the earth’s population today.
The Bible also is unique in its content and message, which focuses on God’s redemptive acts in history. That history is intertwined with prophecy, as it foretells the future of God’s plans and His eternal kingdom.
Isa Al-Masih es el enfoque y el objetivo de toda la Escritura. Su venida en forma humana como el Mesías fue un cumplimiento de las promesas del Antiguo Testamento. Debido a que Él vivió, murió y vive de nuevo, no solo hemos confirmado las Escrituras, sino, mejor aún, la gran promesa de la vida eterna en una existencia completamente nueva.
The Bible is unique among other known religious works because up to 30 percent of its content comprises of prophecies and prophetic literature. The integration of prophecy and its fulfillment in time is central to the biblical worldview, for the God who acts in history also knows the future and has revealed it to His prophets (Amos 3:7). The Bible is not only the living Word, or the historical Word–it is the prophetic Word.
There are at least 65 direct, Messianic predictions in the Old Testament, many more if we add typology, as well (typology is the study of how Old Testament rituals, such as the sacrifices, were mini-prophecies of Isa Al-Masih). These prophecies relate to such specific details as “the sceptre shall not depart from Judah” (Genesis 49:10); that He would be born in Bethlehem in Judah (Micah 5:2); that He would be “despised and rejected of men”; beaten, falsely accused, yet not open His mouth to defend Himself (Isaiah 53:3–7); that His hands and feet would be pierced; and that they would divide His clothes among them (Psalms 22:12–18).
El hecho de que estas profecías del Antiguo Testamento se cumplieron con tanta precisión en la vida, muerte y resurrección de Jesús es testimonio de su inspiración y revelación divinas. También indica que Jesús era quien decía y otros afirmaban que era. Jesús siguió a los profetas de la antigüedad al predecir su muerte y resurrección (Lucas 9:21, 22; Mateo 17:22, 23), la caída de Jerusalén (Mateo 24: 1, 2) y su segunda venida (Juan 14: 1 –3). Así, la Encarnación, la muerte y la Resurrección son predichas por la Biblia y su cumplimiento asegura su fiabilidad.
Why don’t you read the Bible and see for yourself?