LifeTrac with Chuck Swindoll is a presentation of Insight for Living Canada.
it was john [ __ ] who wrote the empire of caesar is gone the legions of rome are rotten in the dust
the avalanches that napoleon hurled upon egypt have melted away the pride of the pharaohs
is fallen tyre is but a rock for bleaching fisherman's nets sidon
has scarcely left a wreck behind but the word of god still survives
all those who have threatened to extinguish it have only added to it
and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that man can build
and how enduring is the least word that god has spoken
bernard ram in his work protestant christian evidences adds this thought a thousand times over
the death knell of the bible has been sounded the funeral procession formed the inscription
cut on the tombstone and the committal red but somehow the corpse never stays put
voltaire the french philosopher declared that the bible by the time of his death or surely
by 100 years after his death the bible along with christianity would be swept from existence
and passed into history like ancient relics voltaire died in 1778.
thomas paine was cut from the same piece of cloth also a philosopher
but not a frenchman an englishman who moved to america and then back to paris
to do his greatest work a two-part work entitled the age of reason he claimed on
one occasion that he had gone through the old testament as a man might go through the forest
filling trees with an axe he openly announced that he had gone through and filled the tall
cedars in the forest of the hebrew scriptures and that though they might be stuck in the soil again
they would never grow poor tom he died in 1809 and the bible lives on i found it interesting
that bunyan's work pilgrim's progress second only to the scriptures for publication
has been rendered in 18 different languages and it lives on to today
all that homer has to say has been preserved in 20 languages all that shakespeare wrote has been
translated into 40 languages tolstoy's works have been put into 60 languages but the bible
either in part or in whole has been translated into over 1 000
languages and dialects in the words of one sage it has endured all the anatomas of infidelity
all the edicts of tyranny and has conquered all the gnawing teeth of time in spite of that the
russian dictionary that was released in moscow under the soviet state publishing firm gives
this definition for the bible and i quote it is a collection of fantastic legends without any
scientific support it is full of dark hints historical mistakes and contradictions it serves
as a factor for gaining power and subjugating unknowing nations end of quote you and i know
that when you open your bible you're moving into battleground territory we are in a day of battle
a great deal is said against the word of god it always has been and it always will be
the bible has withstood centuries of oppression and the opposition continues today
there's a battle against the word of god because it's alive powerful and changes lives
when you open your bible as chuck's wind all says you're in battleground territory.
This is Steve Johnson of Insight for Living Canada. Listen to more of Chuck Swindoll's
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the preceding LifeTrac presentation was brought to you by Insight for Living Canada the original
message "A Symphony for the Soul" was copyrighted in 1978 and this LifeTrac sound recording
was copyrighted in 2013 by Charles R. Swindoll incorporated all rights are reserved worldwide