Here’s a short literary quiz to determine how smart you are – no trick questions. When you answer correctly, you’ll learn how your knowledge “stacks up” against the world’s greatest minds. Don’t cheat or look ahead. Just answer the questions as they come.) Get the answer? You can now count yourself in the upper percentage of the population that knows the answer.                           

1-What history book was written in at least 8               99.999%  

   different locations?

   Wilderness – Dungeon - Hillside – Palace – Prison

   Traveling - Island - Military Campaign

 2-What book used these 11 literary types?                   99.99%

   They include:   History - Law (all types)

   Biography – Apocalyptic – Stories - Diaries                              

   Allegory – Lyric Poetry Treatises – Memoirs

   Correspondence

3-What history book was written by over 40                 99.9%

   authors from many walks of life including:

   Kings – Peasants – Philosophers – Fishermen

   Poets – Statesmen - Scholars - Politician 

   Herdsman - Military General – Cupbearer 

   Doctor - Prime Minister                    

4-What book was written in these different                  90%

   frames of frames of mind?

   War - Peace – Sorrow - Joy - Despair

5-What book was written on these 3 continents?         85%

   Asia – Africa - Europe

6- What book was written in 3 completely                   80%

    different languages?

7-What book is a collection of literary works -             75%

   written over a span of 1,500 years?

8-What book was written over 40-generation              70%

   time period?

9-What book has more manuscript evidence of          65%

   authenticity than any 10 pieces of ancient

   classical literature combined? (Did you know in

   each of Shakespeare’s 37 plays there areabout 100

   readings still in dispute that materially affect the

   meaning of their passages?)

10-What book has been banned in more places         60%

    than any other?  Mere possession means

    death sentence!

What’s the book? It’s the Bible - the remarkable document written in Aramaic, Coineye (low) Greek, Hebrew and never proven wrong.  Did you know the Old Testament has remained the same and intact since 100 B.C.? Did you know the New Testament has been very much the same since about 125 A.D.?

Historic facts, once thought as ridiculously wrong, have been proven true by archeological digs and technical breakthroughs. These include the existence of the Hittite civilization, a virgin birth, dinosaurs, cave men and the ease of Joshua’s victory at Jericho.  (The huge walls didn’t topple into the city, but fell outward. This allowed the people of Israel to use the fallen stones to scramble over and capture Jericho.)

   The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God (God breathed) and is useful to teach us what is true to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right. It’s God’s way of making us well prepared at every point, fully equipped to do good to everyone. –II Tim 3:16

   For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known

   to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were  

   eyewitnesses of His majesty. . . . knowing this first, that no 

   prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy

   never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. – II Peter 1:16, 20-21.

Need more information? Read Josh McDowell’s “EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT” Volumes I and II published by Here’s Life Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 1576, San Bernardino, CA 92402.

© Jim Edwards – 9/29/98       4^th Revision 7/2009    Jim1@EdBus.com