Answering a Fool according to his folly

Today, I am going to something really bad - I will answer a fool according to his folly. In doing so, defend the Word of God against the attacks of the enemy.
  Before I proceed, allow me to quote Proverbs 26:4 - 5:

 Answer not a fool according to his folly,

lest thou also be like unto him.

 Answer a fool according to his folly,

lest he be wise in his own conceit.

   In this case, I am not answering a fool according to his folly that I may be like him, nor am I answering him that I may cause him to stop being wise in his own conceit.  Rather, I am answering him according to his folly, lest others become like unto him.
   So here we go ...

   

No Christian out there has any need to worry about this argument, for it hinges on one assumption - that God didn't write the Bible.  If God didn't write the bible, what he said here would make a bit of sense, but if God DID write the bible, this is nothing short of heinous and damnable blasphemy.

  The Bible stresses the actuality of its inspiration in the strongest terms:

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness

Revelation 22:18 - 19  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:  and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

  We believe that God wrote the Bible, and since God wrote the Bible, none of these factors even matter.  For if God can work through uneducated fishermen and kings alike to bring the gospel to a lost and dying world, he is quite capable of preserving his word.

  Was the Bible re-written? and re-re-written? and added to and subtracted from?

The Bible clearly forbids people from just randomly adding to the Bible. When Moses, as an old man, spoke to those who were to inherit the promised land, he said this :"Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." (Deut. 4:2)

 Furthermore, we are warned in Proverbs 30:6: "add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar".

 With such warnings, I hardly think that that people would have added and subtracted from the Word of God at will.

Satan asked Eve, "Did God really say?".  This question is screamed at us today.  From the university classroom to the TV to even the pulpit, the Word of God is forever brought into question. If what the Word says is true, this should not surprise us.  For satan is the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4).  Hence, all his agents in the world would like nothing better than to tempt us who are saved with the same question that caused Eve to sin.  

  Let us not entertain the doubts that are constantly hewn at us.  We believe that the Word of God is true, and let us never cease to do so.