Has the good news been preserved? In preserving the Bible, many ancient writings have disappeared. Like the men who made them, they have returned to dust and are forgotten. Only fragments remain of most literature of several thousand years ago. But the Bible lives on … it is just as Peter stated, "for all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like a blossom of grass: the grass becomes withered, and the flower falls off, but the saying of God endures forever. Well, this is the saying, this which has been declared to you as good news." The Bible"s record in surviving both the ravages of time and the attacks of its enemies is remarkable. There is no question that God saw to it that the "good news" was preserved to guide us through the present critical days. The inspired writers recorded

