A question for Christians, and those who claim the Bible is true?

Question

How many of you have honestly read the Bible front to back, truly studied it, to come to your conclusion that it is true?

Answer 1

I have honestly read, studied and lived by the bible until I concluded that it is not true! Scared me like hell when I was seven and first started reading on my own.

Answer 2

I've read the Bible about 4 times by doing the one-year Bible. When I forced myself to get through leviticus & some of the old prophets, it ended up being really cool. The book of Samuel (s) was just like a history book. It was an exciting adventure tale. The coolest thing, the thing that I get a chuckle out of is how much of our everyday life is right from the Bible. There are so many day to day idioms that we use that are from the Bible. I have to chuckle because Christian haters use them all the time!
ANYWAY.... I've done a few Bible studies and some teachers are awesome. The studies I've done with Kay Arthur books & videos are factual and she's taught me that you can't understand or believe a scripture unless you have another one or two to back it up. When you see all the parallels from old & new testament if validates it more. Also, when you know about what the culture was like back then, it also proves to me that it's real. Also, when the Greek words that are used are translated, it also makes it more real. If you speak another language, you know that some words in another language don't have an English equivalent.
Uber gerade aus in German is weird when translated literally.
Bottom line....if you really want to know something about the Bible and you take a Bible study without the intent of ripping it apart, it comes alive. It's so cool. It's cool when you're working through a study and you come to the conclusions yourself.

If you don't have the Holy Spirit and you just try to read it, you won't get the meaning out of it. You can't prove or disprove it based on that alone.

Answer 3

I have, and still do. Been at it for a couple of decades now, it never gets old.

When I was a new believer the first bible study I took was called "Examine the Evidence" I learned beyond a shadow of a doubt that the bible was true. I didn't have to read it from back to front at that time to know that.

However reading it from back to front and especially studying it and reasoning through it with my Precept Inductive bible study class just confirms what I knew from the beginning. "Your Word is truth." Psalm 119:160

How about you?

"Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the word of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near." Revelation 1:3

Hope this helps and I hope you get a chance to study and read the bible for yourself and are heaven bound like me.

Answer 4

I went to a Christian school for the first ten years of school. My mother worked at the school so I spent the entire day there reading and helping with things in the church. I went to church almost everyday of the week that there was some kind of bible class or other church activity. I also used to help them feed the poor on certain days.

But I did see things about the people that run the church and ended up turning me against the church but I became closer to God. I talk to God constantly in my head but only pray out loud just before walking into a church because I want him to know I don't follow their idea's.

I've known the bible backward & forwards but in the last few years I've started to see deeper into it trying to find the truth behind the puzzle of the bible. The bible is one of the most mysterious books ever written.

Answer 5

I've read it twice, but mostly I just jump around to read what I want to know at the time. I actually came to the realization it was true when I read the book "The Case for Christ." It's a good book about a guy proving the historical accuracy of the bible. Another thing that helped convince me of the accuracy is www.drdino.com a scientist helps explain the accuracy of God's word through science

Answer 6

I consulted/studied and relied on the Bible for years, and I am currently reading it straight through. My conclusion that it's true is based on the fact that I have prayed to the God of the Bible, and He has answered me to my complete satisfaction. I have given my life to Jesus, and He walks with me every day. And, may I add, I'm not easily convinced.

Answer 7

I can honestly say that I have. I have been in diligent bible study, in depth, for ten years. Before I began this study, I had never spent any time in the bible, and did not know or believe it was the inspired word of God.

I do now.

Answer 8

I have read a lot of the Bible and I believe everything it says. The Bible says that unless you have God spirit in you, the bible is foolishness to you. Once you recieve the Spirit of God in you, your spiritual eyes are opened. It takes having the spirit of God in you to be able to understand the Bible. That's why non christians don't understand it. They're reading it with non spiritual eyes. Again, you will find what I just said foolish, because if you don't have the holy spirit in you, you can't possible understand what I'm talking about.

1 Corinthians 2:14
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Answer 9

About 4/5's of it.
And some of it, over and over and over again.
And I didn't really come to a Conclusion, I came into the Reality of it.
The Word of GOD (it is in the Bible) is Reality. It will come to Pass in your Life when you Finally Start Believing it.

Answer 10

I have read most of the Bible, and studied many different things in it, about it, etc.
As I usually say about this kind of question, it takes faith to believe anything. Facts are great too, but faith really makes a difference.