The Bible You Can Trust

With so many Bible versions available today, can you really know which Bible you can trust?

Walk into a Bible study and you may find five people reading the same verse from five different translations—sometimes with noticeably different words, phrases, or even entire verses. For the sincere Christian, that raises an important question:

If God inspired every word of Scripture, did He also preserve those words for us today?

In A Bible You Can Trust, Greg Todd examines that question from both a biblical and historical perspective. Beginning with God's own promises concerning inspiration and preservation, he explores the manuscript evidence behind our English Bibles, the Textus Receptus, the traditional text, the rise of modern textual criticism, and the significant differences found among Bible translations.

You'll explore questions such as:

• What does the Bible itself say about inspiration and preservation?
• Why does every word—every "jot and tittle"—matter?
• What is the Textus Receptus, and why is it important?
• How do the manuscript traditions behind the King James Bible differ from those underlying many modern translations?
• Why are certain verses, words, and phrases absent from some modern Bibles?
• Is the King James Bible really more difficult to read?
• What about archaic words and the 1769 revision?
• Does copyright matter when it comes to the Word of God?
• Can believers today have genuine confidence that God has preserved His Word?

But this book goes one important step further.

Having a Bible you can trust means little if you do not understand how God told you to study it.

Paul instructed Timothy:
"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
— 2 Timothy 2:15

Through Paul's framework of Time Past, But Now, and Ages to Come, Todd demonstrates why recognizing the biblical distinctions between Israel and the Body of Christ, prophecy and mystery, law and grace, and God's purposes for heaven and earth is essential to understanding Scripture clearly.

A Bible You Can Trust is not written to attack Christians who use other translations or simply to win a Bible-version debate.
It is written to build confidence.

Confidence that God spoke.

Confidence that God preserved what He spoke.

Confidence that you can hold His Word in your hands, rightly divide it, believe it, and build your life upon it.

Because if God expects us to live by every word, we should be able to know which words we can trust.