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Voltaire, 250 years ago, held a copy of the Bible in his hand
and said, "In 100 years this book will be forgotten, eliminated."
What is hilarious is that 100 years later, to the day, his house was
made the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Society, and they were
distributing Bibles out of his house! God has an incredible sense of
humor!
. Say you were going to write a book, and this was how you had to
write it: take 40 different writers for a start, totally different
writers -- some highly educated, even doctors. Then get some farmers.
Go and dig a guy out of a ranch and say, "I would like you to help me
write a book." Then you find some fishermen -- you go down to the
wharf -- a couple of guys from San Francisco, and say, "Hey! listen,
help us write a book." And they say, "Sure, fine...we will help you."
And then you get them to write on the following things: religious
themes, poetry, ethics, science, philosophy, the creation of the
universe and where it's going (throw in a few things about where they
think it will all end.) You collect all that, and then ... oh, by the
way, you have to separate these people so they can't communicate by
phone or telegram ... only possibly word of mouth, passed down over
the years. Ah yes, years ... you collect all this stuff over about
one and a half thousand years, and compile the whole thing in one
book.
What would you have? I suggest you take a biology textbook
from 60 years ago, and compare it with one today. And that is just 60
YEARS! I know what you would have, you would have the most motley
junk you have ever seen in your whole life -- with people totally
contradicting each other! But that is not what you have when you read
your Bible. The more you read this book, the more incredible the
unity of it. Because the more you get into it, the more incredibly
detailed it is, and you find there are not 40 people who wrote it, but
one person.