West Virginia's church burned by fire but not a single Bible was touched by the flames

On March 3 around 12:58am a Church in West Virginia known as Freedom Ministries was burned to ashes but not a single Bible where destroyed by the fire.

Firefighters were left stunned by what they saw when they arrived at Freedom Ministries Church in Grandview, West Virginia where a devastating fire was ravaging through the building. 

The fire so hot that firefighters had to back out at one point.

Rev. Phil Farrington said, "I sat down on the ground and cried and watched it burn." 

"Firefighters from several departments worked for hours to beat the blaze as the flames swallowed the structure and smoke billowed high into the air".

Fire officials said the structure sustained heavy damage. But when it was over and firefighters were combing through the rubble, they uncovered church possessions that had survived: Bibles.

Farrington said that when people try to give a scientific explanation for why the Bibles did not burn, "I just sort of grin because it seems to me that paper burns pretty easy, especially when everything around it is burning." 

The Bibles that were pictured in the fire department’s photo appear to be leather-bound and paperback New International Version (NIV) Bibles.