Chapter X. First and Second Chronicles. Chapter XI. Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. Chapter XII. Job. Chapter XIII. Psalms and Proverbs. Chapter XIV. Ecclesiastes and The Song of Solomon. Chapter XV. Isaiah. Chapter XVI. Jeremiah and Lamentations. Chapter XVII. Ezekiel and Daniel. Chapter XVIII. Hosea and Joel. Chapter XIX. Amos and Obadiah. Chapter XX. Jonah and Micah. Chapter XXI. Nahum and Habakkuk. Chapter XXII. Zephaniah and Haggai. Chapter XXIII. Malachi. Chapter XXIV. Matthew. Chapter XXV. Mark. Chapter XXVI. Luke. Chapter XXVII. John. Chapter XXVIII. Acts. Chapter XXIX. Romans. Chapter XXX. First and Second Corinthians. Chapter XXXI. Galatians and Ephesians. Chapter XXXII. Philippians and Colossians Chapter XXXIII. First and Second Thessalonians. Chapter XXXIV. First and Second Timothy. Chapter XXXV. Titus and Philemon. Chapter XXXVI. Hebrews and James. Chapter XXXVII. First and Second Peter. Chapter XXXVIII. First, Second and Third John and Jude. Chapter XXXIX. Revelation. * * * * * Chapter I. Why We Believe The Bible. There are two lines of proof of the reliability of the scriptures, the external and the internal. These different kinds of evidences may be put down, without separation, somewhat as follows: 1. The Formation and Unity of the Bible. There are sixty-six books written by nearly forty men, who lived at various times, and yet these books agree in making a perfect whole. These writers were of different classes and occupations. They possessed different degrees of training and lived in widely different places and ages of the world. The perfect agreement of their writings could not, therefore, be the result of any collusion between them. The only conclusion that can explain such unity is that one great and infinite mind dictated the scripture. 2. The Preservation of the Bible. That the Bible is a divine book is proven in that it has survived the wreck of empires and kingdoms and the destruction of costly and carefully gathered libraries and that, too, when there was no special human effort to save it. At times all the constituted powers of earth were arrayed against it, but it has made its way against the tide of fierce opposition and persecution. 3. Its Historical Accuracy. The names of towns, cities, battles, kings, empires and great events, widely apart in time and place, are given without a blunder. The ruins of cities of Assyria, Egypt and Babylon have been unearthed and tablets found that prove the accuracy of the Bible narrative. These tablets corroborate the stories of the creation and fall of man, of the flood, the tower of Babel, the bondage in Egypt, the captivity, and many other things. This accuracy gives us confidence in the reality of the book.