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The Origin and Transmission of the Bible

Have you ever wondered why, in a document spanning nearly 4,000 years of human history, the most pivotal figure only occupies three and a half years of the narrative?

Even more puzzling: this figure—the most influential person to ever walk the earth—never actually wrote a single word of the book that bears his message. Yet, his appearance turned the course of human history upside down.

In our first session of this series, we begin an investigation into "God’s Communication." We aren’t just looking at the Bible as a religious artifact; we are treating it as a divine "unveiling" (or apocalypsis). We’re digging into the mechanics of how a message, written by roughly 40 different people—from kings to fishermen—over a time frame of 1,500 years, across three continents and three languages, managed to tell one perfectly consistent story. How is that even possible?

Whether you are a lifelong believer or a skeptic looking for historical holes, this study moves past the surface level. We are looking for the "skeleton" of the text and then putting the "meat" back on the bones using history, geography, and the Biblical text.