Chart Your Course to Biblical Authority with M-A-P-S

• Manuscripts: Because we don't have the original biblical manuscripts, the question is, "How good are the copies?" The answer is that the Bible has stronger manuscript support than any other works of classical literature - including Homer, Plato, Aristotle, and Caesar.
• Archaelogy: With virtually every turn of the archaeologist;s spade, we see evidence for the trustworthiness of Scripture. It is indeed telling when secular scholars must revise their biblical criticisms in light of new archaeological discoveries
• Prophecy: Predictive prophecy is a principal of Bible reliability that often reaches even the hard-boiled skeptic! Scripture records hundreds of prophecies that could not be known or predicted by chance or common sense.
• Statistics: The Bible was written over a space of 1,600 years, by 40 authors, in three languages, on hundreds of subjects, and yet there is one consistent, noncontradictory theme that runs through it all: God's redemption of humankind. Statistical probability is a powerful proof that Scripture is divine rather than human in origin.