# 5 of Ten Reasons Why I Believe The Bible Is The Word
Of God by R. A. Torrey
FIFTH, on the ground of
the history of the book, its victory over attack.
This book has always been hated. No sooner was it given
to the world than it met the hatred of men, and they tried to stamp it out.
Celsus tried it by the brilliancy of his genius, Porphyry by the depth of his
philosophy; but they failed, Lucian directed against it the shafts of his
ridicule, Diocletian the power of the Roman empire; but they failed. Edicts
backed by all the power of the empire were issued that every Bible should be
burned, and that everyone who had a Bible should be put to death. For eighteen
centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit,
reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to
bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold
on the world to-day than ever before.
If that were man's book it would have been annihilated
and forgotten hundreds of years ago, but because there is in it "the
hiding of God's power," though at times all the great men of the world
have been against it, and only an obscure remnant for it, still it has
fulfilled wonderfully the words of Christ, though not in the sense of the
original prophecy, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall
not pass away."[Jesus speaking: Mk.13:31; Lk.21:33]
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