The Bible

Your Word is very pure, therefore Your servant loves it. (Psalm 119:140)

In an excavation at Jerusalem, archeologist Gabriel Barkay uncovered a small copper scroll with [Bible test] on it. This fragment. . .was brittle. . .with age. Barkay took it to his laboratory and worked with unbelievable patience and delicate care to unroll it without destroying it.

Dated around 400 B.C., the scroll was a very important find because it contained the earliest written Hebrew name for God. . . . Always before, because of their reverence for its holiness, Jewish scribes had felt unworthy to pen that special name.

The Bible is God's holy, infallible Word, and we must handle its truths with the same care Barkay gave to his discovery and the same reverence the copyists gave to God's name.