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Many have tried to destroy the Bible. In A.D. 303, the Roman emperor Diocletian issued an edict to destroy Christians and their Bibles. Over a burned Bible, he built a monument on which he had inscribed, “Extincto nomine Christianorum” (the name Christian is extinguished). Twenty years later, Diocletian was dead, and the new emperor, Constantine, commissioned 50 copies of the Bible to be prepared at government expense. In 1776, Voltaire, the French philosopher, announced, “One hundred years from my day, there will not be a Bible on the earth except the one that is looked upon by some antique seeker.”...

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