BIBLE
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Never read it cover to cover. I've read significant portions of it though and I've found it to be life-transforming. It's fascinating when you consider how long it has survived and how it remains a best-seller to this day, despite all the attempts to burn, ban and do away with it altogether, throughout history.
The Bible is a historical document. Most historical documents/volumes that are regarded as indesputable fact, were only copied 7 - 10 times and are riddled with significant textual variances. With the Bible, however, there are presently some 5,000 Greek manuscripts in existence, with as many as 25,000 more copies. Just as amazing is the fact that the earliest manuscripts can be dated back as far as 120 A.D. This is tremendous when you consider that only seven of Plato’s manuscripts are in existence today — and there’s a 1,300-year gap which separates the earliest copy from the original writing! Equally amazing is another fact; and that is, that the New Testament has been virtually unaltered. This has been demonstrated by scholars who have compared the earliest written manuscripts with manuscripts written centuries later. And remember, the accounts in the New Testament were recorded directly by eyewitnesses. Facts like these are powerful in supporting the notion that God has preserved his word and that it can be trusted.