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The Bible is the word of God. From the very Beginning God was here, before earth, moon and the stars. In John Chapter one, verse one it says "In the Beginning was the word and the world was with God and the Word was God." Thus it is impossible for the Bible to completely disappear from Earth.

Before the Bible as we know it was compiled, The "word of God" existed in the hearts and minds of the people. Abraham did not have the Bible, yet he was able to find God. So was all the patriarchs and the people that lived on this planet before the Bible was officially compiled.

Mankind is made with an inner urge, the urge to find the unknown. No matter what civilization you look at, religion was the attempt of man to answer the divine. To find a higher purpose, the essential truth to life. This was exemplified by the Egyptians with their pyramids, the Mayans with their temples, the Sumerian with their ziggurats and Incas with their cities high above the earth.

The search for the ultimate truth was begun by mankind from the dawn of time. God seems to be a mystery but the mystery is not God. He is a revealer of mystery. Thus the "Truth" tries to reveal itself to its creation. God tries to communitcate to his creation, the man.

This communication attempts led to the creation of various religions from early in humankind's history. However, by 4,000 BC the beginnings of Judaism was born, in which God reveals himself to man. He leads the Hebrew people to their promised land and establishes their kingdom.

At around 1 AD, Jesus Christ was born to this world, as a Jew to reform and awaken the Jewish religion to the true purpose of God's calling. Within 30 years, Jesus Christ began a wave of reformation within the Jewish religious circle, leading people to question the truth of God as they knew it and making people want to know God more.

Thus, soon after at around 30 AD, Jesus's ideology of reforms within the Jewish religion, which included Gentiles being taken into the religious fold, Jesus as the son of God, the right of all mankind to become children of God and the promise salvation for mankind at the end times, was spreading rapidly in the Middle East. At around the same time period, followers of Jesus Christ, who preached this gospel of good news were given the name "Christians" by the people of Antioch.

From Antioch, within a few relative years, people all over the world that followed Jesus Christ and his promises were given the name Christians. At AD 50, the various books regarding

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