Evidence of Truth in the Bible

So we covered a lot today and one of things we talked about is why the Bible is accurate and therefore, it should be an absolute truth in our life.
I guess there are something like 15 manuscripts of ancient texts that researchers use to compare accuracy of other ancient text ie the Bible. Here are some facts (its kinda confusing.. sorry):

Julius Ceasar - Gallic Wars - written in 100 BC - earliest document found in 900 AD (1000 year gap between the time it was written and the time it was found)
Plato - (in general) 400 BC - earliest found 900 AD (around 1300 Years and 7 different manuscripts)
Homer - The Illiad - written 800 BC - earliest found 400 BC, 643 copies

Those texts, apparently, are considered completely accurate. Now the New Testament.

New Testament - written around 50 - 100 AD and the earliest copy found was written 114 - 325 AD. Meaning that because the date it was written and the date it was copied are so close the accuracy has to be much closer - consider the gaps in the dates of the other texts - much more spread out. Also there were 5366 copies that were the same found in that time and 2500 had different translations.

So I dont know if any of that made sense it's kinda hard to understand if it's not explained right. But basically the Bible is accurate and experts can't even argue it. The process for copying the Bible was intense aswell. They didn't copy it word for word, it was letter for letter so that not even punctuation could be missed. Before the wrote out the word "God" the scribe would bathe and get changed. After every line the copy got checked and when completed the Bible was stamped and the old copy was burned. It's said that you could burn every bible in the world and still be able to put it back together because of all the times its been quoted in other texts.

"There is more evidence that Jesus was real than there is for Julius Ceasar"
there are 60+ prophecies in the old testament, that forsee the coming of Christ. These are 6 of those that were unable to be influenced by Jesus himself - he had no control over the following.
1. place of birth - Bethlehem
2. Time of birth
3. manner of birth - by a virgin
4. His betrayal
5. manner of death - cross
6. Pierced - hands and feet
Yet all came to be, right? Right .. all these were written about 250 years BEFORE the coming of christ and every one of them came to be. Some very dedicated person worked out the chances of Jesus accidentally fulfilling every prophecy and it turned out to be 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 ... that's beyond a slim chance.

Anyways I just foud these things to be really really interesting and totally give me a new way of thinking.. it changes how you think about telling Christ to people...

Chris said something today that I found entertaining, ".. (to an atheist) find 100 people that have been transformed by atheism. (he can't) And I'll find 100 people that have been transformed by the Bible" - speaks for itself huh.
I love learning :)
hope you found this interesting.