Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to helping modern day believers live out the teachings of the First Century Church.

This podcast is part of the teaching ministry of Dr. David K. Bernard.

Dr. Bernard has dedicated his life to studying the Bible and helping believers apply its message to their daily lives.

In Apostolic Life in the 21st century,

Dr. Bernard answers your questions about what the Bible teaches and how those teachings apply to

everyday life. Thank you for joining us for this broadcast. The Bible was obviously written a long

time ago, and of course we know that all of the original

authors are dead. Parts of the Bible were written up to 3,500 years ago, and the newest portions

were written about 2,000 years ago. We also do not have copies of what we would call the

autographs, the original manuscripts that were pinned by the biblical

authors. Considering all that, how do we know that the Bible that we have today is an accurate

reflection of what the original writers actually wrote? That's a great question. It's very important in our day. So let me give

your resource. If you want detailed discussion from an apostolic perspective, I've written a book on

this very subject. It's called God's infallible word, available at pentecostal publishing.com.

So I can only give a very brief answer now, but there is a lot of historical information and

even statistical information that will back up what I'm saying. So if you really want that,

go to God's infallible word. But let me try to give you a brief answer. The Old Testament

is written in Hebrew with a few passages in Aramaic. We only have a few manuscripts,

complete manuscripts of the Old Testament, and they only come from about AD 1000. So at first thought,

you might say, well, how in the world will we know? Because, of course, in the days before printing,

all the ancient Bibles had to be copied by hand.

And so how do we know errors didn't creep in?

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