A newspaper article once told how the 83-member crew of the USS Pueblo, who had previously discarded faith as excess baggage, turned to prayer and the Bible to sustain them in their 11-month imprisonment by the North Korean government in 1968. The article said, “A symbol of both their faith and their unity was the ‘Pueblo Bible,’ scraps written out from memory and jotted down on toilet paper or on pieces of paper that had been given the men to write the ‘confessions’ their captors beat them to obtain.”
Isn’t it strange how in the face of difficulties people turn to a book as old as the Bible for help? Of course, truth has no date on it. The multiplication table and the law of gravity are no less true because they are old. T...