One Book or Many Books

 One Book or Many Books?

“I wouldn’t base my beliefs on one book,” she said. Her words stung. The sting went deep so deep I have not forgotten it.

I knew immediately to what book she was referring. The book which explains eternal truths in a way that people can understand some of them.

I questioned. Does this intelligent person believe there is only ONE book about truth?

You believe that God doesn’t exist? How many books have been written trying to prove he doesn’t exist? Think of how many books have been written proving that God does exist. Some say, that truth is relevant to the person and circumstances, that there are no absolutes of truth. How many books confirm that theory? How many prove that truth is truth at all times, in all places?

Now take just one truth, that of marriage being the union of one male and one female person. Can anyone name the quaintly of books printed about that one truth? Go back thousands of years and began counting. They are endless. Even before books existed, pictures on cave walls shows romance, mating of a man and a woman.

Can anyone list how many truth principles the Bible contains? A few examples of eternal truths are: The above, Man lives and dies, There is day and night, Seasons change, There will always be seed time and harvest, (God’s promise to man after the flood. Gen. 8:22) People are in the image of God (Gen. 1:26). There are hundreds of other truths. Now imagine the number of books written about each truth.

If only a few books were written each year. Multiply that by the thousands of years that writings have existed. If all those writings had been preserved, how many books would that be? Could the world contain them all?

This reminds me of what Apostle John said about Jesus. (John 21:24) “There are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written everyone, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.” Even secular history and archeology digs prove Bible truths.

What is this about believing in only one book? I base my beliefs on the thousands of books that prove the eternal truths of the Bible.