Is there proof the Bible is inspired by God?

Answer 1

Yes there is. First, one third of the Bible is prophecy. 456 Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Most of them written hundreds of years before His birth. (And before anyone says, 'Well, He saw which prophecies there were and showed those ignorant people that He was the Messiah by saying that He fulfilled them,' let me ask this....How do you choose your birthplace and be from the exact lineage of David? Would you willingly be tortured to try and prove a point?

Alfred Edersheim, a former Jew (and biblical scholar), became a Christian by studying these very prophecies. He concluded that it is only in Jesus of Nazareth that these were fulfilled.

Professor Peter Stoner of Westmont College, determined that for one man to fulfill these prophecies was one chance in 10 to the 17th power. (That's a 10 with 17 zeroes after it.)

And if that is not enough proof for you that the Bible is the inspired (or more correctly, "God-breathed," since the Greek is Theopneustos--literally God-breathed), then let's look at some additional evidence.

In the last 12 verses of Mark's Gospel, some have disputed the authenticity of these verses, saying that they were added later. But, if we are willing to see with our eyes, and understand with our hearts and minds, we'll see truth.

There are 175 (7 x 25) words in the Greek text of Mark 16:9-20. Curious. These words use a total vocabulary of 98 different words (7 x 14), an exact multiple of seven. That's rather striking.

Try constructing a passage in which both the number of words and the number of letters are precisely divisible by seven (with no remainder)! The random chance of a number being precisely divisible by 7 is one chance in seven. In seven tries, there will be an average of six failures.

The chance of two numbers both being divisible by 7 exactly is one in 7 to the 2nd power, or one in 49. (This is a convenient simplification; some mathematical statisticians would argue the chance is one in 91.5 ) This still might be viewed as an accidental occurrence, or the casual contrivance of a clever scribe. But let's look further. The number of letters in this passage is 553, also a precise multiple of seven (7 x 79). This is getting a bit more tricky. The chance of three numbers accidentally being precisely divisible by seven is one in 7 to the third power, or one in 343. This increasingly appears to be suspiciously deliberate.

As we examine the vocabulary of those 98 (7 x 14) words: 84 (7 x 12) are found before in Mark; 14 (7 x 2) are found only here. 42 (7 x 6) are found in the Lord's address (vv.15-18); 56 (7 x 8) are not part of His vocabulary here.

This is, conspicuously, not random chance at work, but highly skillful design.

Anyway, with just this small evidence, we can see that there is something special, even unique about the Scriptures, and that they are indeed, God-breathed.

Answer 2

No, there is no such proof. There is not even any proof that God exists, let alone that it had anything to do with the Bible. Remember, anybody can write anything in a book and claim that God told them to write it--how does anyone know that they aren't lying? Well, they don't, they just believe it with the blind gullibility of a child because some authority figures told them to.

** Science continues to make progress and when it does it goes back to things the Bible stated 3,500 years ago! **

Really, William? I want you to quote the scientist who says that the sun and moon can stand still in the sky at the whim of some invisible sky genie. Show me the scientist who says that donkeys and snakes can make human speech. Show me any paleontologisy or archeologist who believes that the entire planet was once flooded by enough water to cover the Himalayans. The Bible is a book of silly myths believed and written by superstitious goat herders, not a treatise on scientific discoveries.

Answer 3

i imagine that the international Noah knew changed into flooded. So the Atlantic section and the Mediterranean Sea, and Noah ended up coursing by using the Mediterranean Sea, settling someplace in the land of that area. So i'm not searching for a flood which coated each and every of the earth, in ordinary words a particular element of the earth which Noah knew. (interior of a similar experience, I do not ignore that Alexander the excellent has been traditionally credited as to have conquered the completed earth, yet he did not bypass previous Asia into the Americas, and so on.) even as custom is got here upon to be incorrect about some thing, I have a tendency to seem for a deeper which ability or redefine what's written or reported. So the flood tale isn't demanding to swallow. interior of context of what changed into prevalent, or what i imagine changed into prevalent on the time, God makes particular issues clearer by using His Spirit. The Bible isn't understood awesome without His impression.

Answer 4

If you had ask if the Bible was inspired by a man, then I'd say, "Send it to a jury of his peers, let them decide." But you asked if it was inspired by God. If you can get him to respond to a subpoena, and could find any peers, you could be the judge! But since that is not likely to happen, try to get the inspiration. And then you wont really need the book, except to give it to others, to be inspired.

Answer 5

There is extensive proof the the events in the Bible are accurate but believing it is inspired by God (which I do) is almost entirely a matter of faith.

Answer 6

No, not even from a Biblical perspective (which doesn't count as proof to nonbelievers anyway). But this shouldn't be too surprising since the very existence of god can't even be proven.

The closest you get is a single sentence in a letter Paul wrote to Timothy in which Paul says that all scripture is inspired. Surely though, Paul did not consider that personal letter itself to be scripture! He was referring to the Jewish scriptures, which we call the Old Testament, not his own personal letters and later books not yet even penned - the content of the New Testament.

Answer 7

It would be hard to believe that what Mose's states in the Bible came from his own thinking...such as stating the world is a sphere, for quite sometime science stated the world was flat. Or that it was stated in the bible that there are BILLIONS of stars!!! Science at one time stated there where 1,100 stars?? This from a man in the desert with his family and flock. Could you even think about looking into the sky and stating a Billion stars?! At best you would state a few hundred or thousand if you where making this up your self.

Science continues to make progress and when it does it goes back to things the Bible stated 3,500 years ago!

Answer 8

Yes,
First of all there has never been anything discovered that has disagreed with the Bible.
Secondly, all the prophecies that were written about the Christ hundreds of years before Him that came true to the letter.
Thirdly, have you looked into the "Bible Code", where events and people are encoded by equal letter spacing in the pages of Scripture? Check out books written by Yakov Ramsell.

Answer 9

humanity is inspired by God. homo sapiens, some more human than others wrote the Bible. thus, the Bible is inspired by God.

Answer 10

is there proof it's not? can't god inspire people any way it chooses to?
couldn't a steven king novel be god inspired, if only for one reader?