If a copy of the Bible were put aboard a rocket and fired into space, guided to land on a far-off planet, and if this Bible were discovered and could be read there by a people who had never heard of earth or of any of its history—a people who had no possible means of knowing whether one single event recounted in the Bible had ever taken place—the Bible would transform that civilization. This would be inevitable because its message is a message of Truth that is universal, and anyone who reads it in search of Truth will find it.
The Bible is authentic, not because archeologists have found evidence of its historical accuracy but because of the soundness of its message. The truth presented in its stories, its poetry, its wisdom, its characters, and its prophecy is provable in our own lives here today. Its authenticity is demonstrable.
Mrs. Eddy writes on page 131 of Science and Health, "The central fact of the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power." We shall find the Scriptures effective in our lives only as we search them for this "central fact." The problems faced by Noah and Joseph and David and Jonah, as well as by Jesus and his disciples, are not problems of a day gone by; they are our problems, here and now. When we read the Scriptures, we are reading of questions we are facing today. The answers are to be found in the spiritual truth of the Bible. Mrs. Eddy discovered this truth and named it Christian Science.
