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You may have said this at least once in your life, or something of this nature. Perhaps you even shunned the Bible, saying its full of nothing but fairy tales that have never really happened. I used to think the same way, until I really dug into the facts, an honest search for truth lead to just that, truth. What if I told you that the Bible is not only historically accurate but is also one hundred percent prophetically accurate? The Bible was written over a period of about one thousand five hundred years by more than forty different authors, composed on three different continents (Africa, Asia, and Europe) and in three different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek). Considering this fact, the unity of this book is staggering! (McDowell 16) There are more than twenty four thousand manuscript copies of portions of the New Testament in existence today. That’s more than any other document of antiquity in history. The only book that even comes close to approaching such numbers is the “Iliad” by Homer with only 643 manuscripts in existence. (McDowell 39) “The Bible compared with other ancient writings, has more manuscript evidence than any ten pieces of classical literature combined.” says Josh McDowell in his book “