Robert Roberts

Is the Bible True?

Addresses tracing the Bible’s history from Abraham through Moses, the wilderness, the conquest and David to the prophets and Christ, and asking whether it can be believed.

Robert Roberts · Logos Publications reprint of the articles from Good Company (the modern preface is left out) · about 52,000 words

Transcribed from the scans at antipas.org and proofread against the page images. The text keeps the original spelling, the printer’s misprints and the Bible references as they were printed. These are historical texts in the language of their day; the teaching of this site is set out in its own beliefs and Bible studies.

  1. A Moot Question with “Yes” Waitingpp. 1–3
  2. The Bible’s Own Testimony: Why Should It Be Questioned?pp. 4–6
  3. Its Historic Backbonepp. 7–10
  4. Taking Its History to Pieces: Abrahampp. 11–14
  5. Taking Its History to Pieces: Josephpp. 15–18
  6. Moses and the Exoduspp. 19–23
  7. The Journey in the Wildernesspp. 24–28
  8. Israel’s Chronic Mutiniespp. 29–33
  9. What the Record of the Murmurings Provepp. 34–39
  10. The Want of Food in the Wilderness: The Manna Supplypp. 40–44
  11. Failure of the Water Supply: The Sin of Mosespp. 45–50
  12. The Worship of the Golden Calfpp. 51–55
  13. Struck Dead on the Spotpp. 56–61
  14. A Doomed Generationpp. 62–66
  15. Envy at Headquarterspp. 67–71
  16. Wholesale Revoltpp. 72–76
  17. Distressed Leader and Plagued Peoplepp. 77–82
  18. Balaam’s Journeypp. 83–88
  19. The Speeches of Mosespp. 89–94
  20. An Extraordinary National Anthempp. 95–100
  21. A Repulsed Attackpp. 101–105
  22. The Conquest of Canaanpp. 106–110
  23. The Extermination of the Canaanitespp. 111–117
  24. A Successful Rusepp. 118–123
  25. A Friendly Episodepp. 124–129
  26. An Unsuspected Witnesspp. 130–135
  27. An Extraordinary Military Expeditionpp. 136–141
  28. A Calamitous Episodepp. 142–146
  29. Victory without Joypp. 147–153
  30. A Corrupt Priesthoodpp. 154–158
  31. The Story of Davidpp. 159–165
  32. The Story of David (continued)pp. 166–171
  33. The Story of David (continued)pp. 172–180
  34. The Prophetspp. 181–187
  35. At the Feet of Christpp. 188–195