" THERE EXISTS GOLD , ALSO AN ABUNDACE OF CORALS ; BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE PRECIOUS VESSELS ." - Proverbs 20 : 15.

In what ways is the Bible different from any other book?

How can the Bible cope with personal problems?

Why can you trust the prophecies recorded in the Bible?

The Bible is a gift from God, one for which we can be truly grateful. This unique book reveals things that we could never find out otherwise. For example, it tells us about the creation of the starry heavens, the earth, and the first man and woman. The Bible contains reliable principles to help us cope with life's problems and anxieties. Explains how God will fulfill his purpose and bring about better conditions on the earth. It's also heartwarming gift, for it reveals something about the Giver, he wants us to get to know him well and to draw close to Him.

Harmonious and Accurate
It's writers lived at diffèrent times and came from many walks of life. The first book tells us how mankind's problems began. The last book shows that the whole earth will become a paradise or garden.
At time when there were wrong ideas about the shape of the earth, the Bible refèred to it as a circle or sphere ( Isaiah 40: 22), that the earth 'hangs on nothing' (Job 26:7). Though the Bible is not a science book , but when it touches on scientific matters, it is accurate.
The Bible is also historically accurate and reliable. It's accounts are specific.( Luke 3: 23-28). In contrast to secular historians, who often do'nt mention the defeats of their own people, Bible writers were honest, even recording their own failings and those of their nations. (Numbers 20: 2-12). Such honesty is rare in other historical accounts but is found in the Bible because it is a book from God.
A Book Of Prophecy
Through the prophet Isaiah, who lived in the eight century B.C.E; God foretold that the city of Babylon would be destroyed. ( Isa. 13: 19; 14:22,23). Details were given to show just how this would happen. Invading armies would dry up Babylon's river and march into the city w/o a battle. Isaiah's prophecy even named the king who would conquer Babylon- Cyrus.( Isa.44: 27-45:2.
Some 200 years later- on the night of Oct. 5/6, 539 B. C. E.- an army encamped near Babylon. Who was its commander? A Persian King named Cyrus. The Babylonians were holding a festival that night and felt secure behind their massive city walls. Meanwhile, Cyrus cleverly diverted the water of the river that flowed through the city, the water shallow enough for his men to cross the riverbed and approach the walls of the city. On that night the doors to the city were carelessly left open so Cyrus' army get past Babylon's wall. The foretold desolation of Babylon ( Isa. 13:20) can see the evidence of the fulfillment today. The uninhabited site of Babylon- about 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq- is proof that what God spoke through Isaiah has been fulfilled: " I will sweep her with the broom of anihilation."- Isaiah 14:22, 23.
If God has fulfilled his past promises, we have every reason to be confident that he will also fulfill his promise of a paradise earth. (Numbers 23:19) Indeed we have "hope of the everlasting life which God, who cannot lie, promised before times long lasting."- Titus 1:2.