How do you know that the Bible is the word of God?

Question

Or any other holy book. And please don't say because the Bible says so. That is called a circular argument.

I feel I should add that I am an athiest, but I have also read the bible.

Answer 1

When a person wants to give their opinion of any book, they have to read it first. Have you read the Bible? People say it contradicts itself; have they read it through in context? Have you read all of those other 'Holy Books' that you mentioned? In any court case, the evidence has to be analyzed and proof given to support each
'allegation'. You need to read and study the Bible for yourself. Ask any one of Jehovah's Witnesses that you come in contact with to show you from your own Bible that it is God's word. Like expert witnesses in a court case, we have studied the Bible, researched history and have made our lives over to preach to the 'entire inhabited earth' as Jesus commanded, about God's Kingdom that is to return the earth to the Paradise that Adam an Eve lost.

Answer 2

It's called "faith". I don't know it but I believe it. I don't believe it's the literal word of God because it has been tampered with by so many people in translations through the centuries, but the truths it teaches, I believe, are the word of God. The only authority that compiled the Bible after 500 years of it's existence is the Catholic Church. The Church decided what books belong in the New Testament. No other authority has added or subtracted any book in the New Testament. So for all the people that hate the Catholic Church and say your church is the right one because it is Bible based, have to agree that it is only the Catholic Church that compiled the Bible and states what belongs in the Bible as the word of God. Remember, the Catholic Church is not a child of the Bible, but the "Mother" of the Bible and she alone has stated at the creation of the New Testament of good book that it is the word of God. So it is faith in the Roman Catholic Church that tells me the Bible is the word of God. If you don't believe in catholicism you really can't believe the Bible is the word of God because you have no other authority that says so. Tough one for all the anti-catholic bigots.

Answer 3

That's where the word blind faith came from. It's a question that has been asked for centuries!

Here's a better one though:
How do Christians know that the Bhagavad Gita is NOT the word of God? And how do Hindus and Muslims and Jews know that the Bible is NOT the word of God?

There's only more questions and hardly any answers.

Answer 4

it is because the Bible says so, which i understand is a circular argument, but hear me out. Every historical account in the Bible is backed up by multiple accounts from historians of those time periods. Every prophecy concerning Jesus given in the OT was fulfilled, and again backed up by numerous historians of the time.

Answer 5

Humans invent their own versions of Gods, so if they claim it is the "word of God," then it is true to them. Of course, supernatural entities, including Gods, do not exist in fact, so the bible cannot possibly be the word of any God that exists in fact.

Additional comment:

There is no objectively verifiable evidence to support any of the bible stories, including the Jesus myths. The only evidence supporting the bible is the bible.

Answer 6

I know the Bible isn't the word of god because god doesn't exist.

Answer 7

I asked a similar question, got some good and bad answers...but the best 2 answers I got were "faith" and "there are prophecies that come true in the bible"

Answer 8

I know coz of experiences, testimonies, Gods presence, life changes, answered prayers, prophecy unfolding, healing, many things that are beyond words. The Word has power, it is alive simple as that.

Answer 9

Great question. Even though it has been proven that the book is altered and incomplete, people still believe that it is the word of god.

Answer 10

What God did in my life corresponds to what's in the Bible.