Is the Bible Really Reliable?
2 Peter 1:16-18 · Kent Keller, Pastor
Can a 2,000-year-old book really stand up to modern scrutiny — or is the Bible just a collection of "cleverly devised myths"? Pastor Kent Keller takes on one of the hardest questions skeptics and Christians wrestle with: is the Bible actually reliable? From 2 Peter 1:16-18, he walks through the manuscript evidence, the eyewitness testimony of Peter and John, and the call to actually open the book in a culture where 68% of Americans read the Bible less than once a year.
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