Bible Among The Myths: Summary And Analysis

When considering the basis of the Bible, we need to take into account that there’s no other book in history that has been written by more than 40 different authors in a span of 1,500 years, and yet it all consistently tell the same story. In The Bible Among the Myths, Oswalt states, “If the historical basis on which the supposed revelation [the Bible] rested was false, then why should we give any special credence to the ideas resting on that basis” (p. 31). Therefore, in order to respond to this question, we need to tell what liberalism, rationalism, individualism, postmodernism, logic and science is not telling us. The fact is that if the Bible provenance is false, as a consequence, we could not trust the Bible as the “absolute word of God”. However, the Bible have been proven to be a trust wordy book; and validated by archeological scientific experiments and findings. Even more, some secular historical books provide sufficient evidence and credibility to some of the Bible historical events.

But when we analyze it face to face with internal, external and spiritual evidence, we realize that it is a book which has sufficient evidence to prove its truthfulness beyond reasonable doubt. Whether through archaeological experiments, whether by prophecies fulfilled, whether by scientific evidence, or whether by internal and external evidence; the reality is that the biblical events suggest to us that everything happened and not the opposite. In this case, the Bible is very clear that since the beginning Satan has tried to deceive us saying, “did God really said that about the truthfulness of the Bible.” To put the story in context, worldly wisdom tells a men rationalism appears to be correct, however, the Bible tells that “in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs