"Bite-Size Apologetics" | the Bible is Supported by Historical Evidence

Three tests support the trustworthiness of Scripture: the bibliographic test, the external test and the internal test. These three tests are commonly used to examine the historical nature of ancient pieces of literature. The Bibliographic Test examines the Biblical manuscripts themselves, and looks at the quantity and quality of the surviving manuscripts and how closely they are written in time to the events they describe. The Internal Test examines the substance of the Bible itself and asks the questions: "What does the Bible claim to be? Why did the Biblical authors write and pen the history they recorded? Finally, the External Test examines the historical evidence from outside the Bible. So we will look at extra-biblical authors and historians and archaeological evidence that supports the events recorded in Scripture.