"...Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because 'All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD endures forever.'" (1 Pet. 1:23-25)

Voltaire, the 18th-century French atheist who was one of the greatest writers of his time, wielded a bitter pen against Christianity. In a moment of triumph he once boasted, "In twenty years Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear." But Voltaire's arrogance was swallowed up in his death. He died, in his own words, "abandoned by God and man." Shortly after his death, the very house in which Voltaire wrote was made a depot of the Geneva Bible Society! (From Why I Preach the Bible is Literally True, by W.A. Criswell, p. 103-104)

All the critics and assailants of the Bible will decay into dust, but the Word of God will stand forever. Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matt. 24:35)