Founding Fathers’ View of the Historical Trustworthiness of the Bible
The Bible is the unique book in the world that can be trusted for its trustworthiness. As an author myself, I am aware of my mistakes and those of other authors. As a writer of history, I note in the back of books by other authors their mistakes. It encourages me when I see some great authors make mistakes themselves. However, God’s Word, the Bible is without error in its original writings.

Exodus 12:41 “At the end of 430 years to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.”

Ezekiel 40:1 “In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city, on that very day the hand of the Lord was upon me and he took me there.”

The fall of Jerusalem was on August 14, 586 BC. The Bible does not say August 14, 586 but scholars are able to place that date with the Bible and historical research. God does not miss a trick. He is in control even though at times it does not appear so.

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States had this to say about the trustworthiness of the Bible:
“It is to be regretted, but so I believe the fact to be, that except the Bible there is not a true history of the world.” John Jay to Rev. Jedidiah Morse; Feb. 28, 1797[written while Jay served as Chief Justice to the Supreme Court]

“…The Bible is the best of all Books, for it is the word of God, and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue, therefore to read it and regulate your Life by its precepts…” John Jay to his son Peter Augustus Jay; April 8, 1784 [Peter, born in 1776, was 8 years old at the time]

“…Our Redeemer commanded his apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature: to the end it was necessary that they should be enabled to understand and to preach it correctly, and to demonstrate its Divine origin and institution by incontestable proofs. The Old Testament, which contained the promises and prophecies respecting the Messiah, was finished at a period antecedent to the coming of our Saviour, and therefore afforded no information nor proof of his advent and subsequent proceeding. To qualify the apostles for their important task, they were blessed with the direction and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and by him were enabled to preach the Gospel with concordant accuracy, and in divers languages: they were also endued with power to prove the truth of their doctrine, and of their authority to preach it, by wonderful and supernatural signs and miracles.”
John Jay, Address to the American Bible Society; May 12, 1825 [written while he served as President of the American Bible Society]

It astounds me that because of the secular influence in our textbooks, magazines, that so much emphasis placed on Jefferson and his watered-down version of the Bible. We never hear about the first Chief Justice’s view. In the first election for president who came in third place after George Washington and John Adams? Was it Jay or Jefferson? Washington had 90 votes, Adams had 45 votes and John Jay was next with 10 votes.