The Bible is not one book but a library of books inside one cover. The writing and collecting together of these books was spread over a thousand years, far back in time in a cultural situation very different from our own. Yet the Bible is accepted by modern Christians all over the world as God's word to them, and it has been translated into many hundreds of modern languages from the original Hebrew and Greek spoken in ancient Palestine. Millions of modern Christians, whether living in Kenya, Canada, Nigeria, France, or any other country you can think of, believe that God communicates with them through the books that were written so long ago by those ancient Semitic writers of that small Middle East country. This fact leads us to ask a very important question: How is the Bible true for modern people? The first step in trying to answer our question is to consider what we mean by the word 'true'.