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From social media memes to popular scholarship, so many attacks have been launched on the believability of Scripture that many have serious questions about the Bible, such as: - Did Jesus actually live? - Did the biblical writers invent their message? - How can we trust the gospels since they were written so long after Jesus lived? - How can we believe a Bible that is full of internal contradictions with itself and external contradictions with science? - Aren't the biblical manuscripts we have just copies of copies that are so corrupted they don't represent what the original authors wrote? - Why should we believe the books that are in the Bible, since many good ones were left out, like the Gospel of Thomas? - Why trust the Bible when there are so many contradictory translations of it? If you find yourself unable to answer questions such as these, but wanting to, Why I Trust the Bible by eminent Bible scholar and translator William Mounce is for you. These questions and more are discussed and answered in a reasoned, definitive, and winsome way. The truth is that the Bible is better attested and more defensible today than it ever has been. 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