Best-selling books and movies, Mormons, or Muslims cast doubt on the integrity of the Bible by claiming “it has been changed” and “some books have been lost.” Do we have a sure answer to these, and similar, claims? Let us reason together.

The most powerful answer is that God is always in control. Often, those who are skeptical about the Bible are also skeptical of God’s existence. Other articles showed how we can know God exists and that the Bible alone contains His words. Would God send Jesus to die, record that message of salvation, and then allow that record to be lost? Since He desires all men “to come to the knowledge of the truth,” He would not allow that truth to disappear (1 Timothy 2:4).

Some will reply “But we don’t know what the original documents said” or “The Bible has been translated so many times that it has lost its original meaning.”

When Paul spoke of the “Holy Scriptures,” he did not have Moses’ original documents. He read from copies of copies of copies of Moses’ original writing. Still Paul said that they would make men “wise for salvation” (2 Timothy 3:15).

Regarding translations, Jesus often quoted from a translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. Thus, Jesus had confidence in translations.

By these and other means, it is possible to know that the Bible is an accurate record of God’s revelation.