It seems like forever ago, but I used to work for LifeWay in their retail stores. I acquired a whole lot of business and general life skills in my time there. While on my journey there, I read and learned a lot about the Bible, other manuscripts like the Apocrypha and also the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Let’s fast-forward circa 12-15 years later. Yesterday morning I read in my almost-daily general news briefings that the newer set of Dead Sea Scrolls (let’s call them “DSS” for short) were identified as forgeries (or fakes).
Yes, I know the DSS are not piece for piece in or are the Bible, but the connection here is simply this: since the latest DSS are fakes, they’re still a “Christian related” entity and so the Bible and Christians are going to get more credibility flak than normal.
Here’s one takeaway you can safely rely on:
I wholeheartedly believe that God provided to the Bible writers the perfect, proper, and exact words that make up the Bible as we know it today — from Genesis to Revelation — as is expressed in 2 Timothy 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:20-21. Don’t let the (likely) fact that the DSS are fakes ruin the fact that the Bible is accurate and will stand the test of time.
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