{"id":12713,"date":"2026-09-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/?post_type=book&#038;p=12713"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:12:12","slug":"how-god-preserved-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/cbimedia\/book\/how-god-preserved-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christian&#8217;s Pocket Guide to How God Preserved the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is sometimes a gap in the teaching we receive between the inspiration and illumination of Scripture. The Holy Spirit inspired the writing of the Word of God in the first place and applies it to our hearts now. What does the Holy Spirit do in respect of the Bible between these two works? How do we know that the Bible we read today is\u00a0<em>still\u00a0<\/em>the inspired Word of God? Richard Brash grounds his answers to these questions in the doctrines of God and his outer works, especially providence, in this introductory guide to how God preserved the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available in English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianfocus.com\/en-gb\/product\/9781527104211\/a-christians-pocket-guide-to-how-god-preserved-the-bible-paperback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Published by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cbipress.ish-cbi.or.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBI Press<\/a>.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIs the Bible I have in my hands really the Word of God?\u201d Faced with a book written thousands of years ago, copied through generations of manuscripts, and translated repeatedly, isn\u2019t this a question we are bound to face at some point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12902,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,200,87,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12713","book","type-book","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-cbi-press-books","category-en","category-cbs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/12713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/12713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12941,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/12713\/revisions\/12941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbijapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}