Miraculous! Decades-old Bible Left "unscathed" after Deadly NY City Blast that Leveled Two Buildings

Aimee Herd : Mar 18, 2014
News Staff – CBN, Christian Life News

"Through all of the rubble, through all of the destruction, his Book survived."

(East Harlem, NY)—Last week's huge explosion in New York City's East Harlem that reduced two apartment buildings to rubble and killed 8 people, miraculously left a decades-old Bible untouched. (Photo via CBN)

One of the buildings housed the 80-year-old Spanish Christian Church, to which the treasured antique Bible belonged.

Members of the church were incredulous at the workers' discovery and how the Bible had been somehow protected from the flames.

"I thank God. It was wonderful," remarked Carmen Vargas-Rosa, the church's financial secretary. "I really didn't think that anything that was paper would survive." (Photo via Christian Life News)

When the church's pastor, Rev. Thomas Perez saw the Bible he was overcome with emotion, to the point of experiencing chest pains.

Public Advocate Letitia James said, "When [Rev. Perez] saw this Bible, that's when he had the palpitations. Through all of the rubble, through all of the destruction, his Book survived."