Very few ancient writings were preserved and handed down to us. It’s remarkable that we have portions of New Testament manuscripts that are only 100 years older than the original texts. Ancient Christians writings are by far the most numerous writings preserved from that time. There was no printing press so everything had to be copied by hand one at a time. There are 28,000 copies of ancient Christian manuscripts in existence. When these copies were compared with our Bible it was found that the New Testament was 99.9% accurate with the original documents. Those errors found were minor like spelling and syntax which had no impact on the spiritual message.
Satan stirred up competing cults and false information in an effort to discredit the Bible as God’s Word. Competing documents on the life of Jesus were created to throw up a smoke screen and prevent people from recognizing the word of God. Fortunately the people living at that time were witnesses to the life and resurrection of Jesus and they fully recognized the glory of God so the false writings and teachings were debunked quickly as the frauds they were. God took extraordinary steps to ensure the Bible’s pedigree was unchallenged. Historians for the most part accept the Bible as true because of the overwhelming evidence that supports it.
By about 400 AD it was clear to Satan he couldn’t destroy God’s Word or keep people from believing it. Satan then decided to compete with God for the worship of man by establishing a competing religion so around 600 AD Satan sponsored Islam. Scripture says Satan has the ability to appear as an angel of light so no doubt when he appeared to Mohammed in the cave it was easy for Mohammed to be fooled into thinking he was dealing with god. No matter what the politically correct say Christianity is in a death struggle with Islam because they are bent on destroying Christianity.
Before the time of Christ Satan did his best to divert man from the truth of God by creating other fake religions like Buddhism and Hinduism in the eastern world. In the western world polytheism prevailed (idol worship). Satan is the god of this world and he has inflamed other current fake religions against Christianity and also those with no religious beliefs. Satan’s most dangerous ploy is to sow lies and discord within the church itself in order to get us to doubt God’s love and God’s Word. False Christs and false teachings are coming in the end times according to Scripture so we have to be ready. We must study God’s Word so we know false doctrine when we hear it. We must ignore what is false and keep on the true path by not turning to either the left or the right.
Witnessing for Christ