How are we supposed to know if the modern Bible is the word of God?

Answer 1

we cant, its very very old, just like in politics things get misplaced taken out of text, or destroyed. you cannot know for sure when it has been passed down in the hands of man for a long time.

Answer 2

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 3

We're not. We are just supposed to take the church's word for it. No need to think about it and question it, just accept it or else you will go to hell (just joking)!
Maybe it is the word of God to some degree then maybe also are other works of literature the common man never hears about. For example, I read this series of books called "Conversations with God" and these words seem, to me, to be more aligned with what a god might say than the Bible, if that makes any sense.

Answer 4

The Spirit of God alone can testify to that and does. However even from a "proof" side the evidence of its integrity is overwhelming for those who would just take a honest look. The Jewish scribes were meticulous in their copying and the manuscripts found show that and as to the New Testament over 5 thousand Greek and over 8 thousand Lain manuscripts have been found and they all testify to the integrity of the Word we have. NO other literature comes close yet we believe many that have far less proof of its integrity.

Answer 5

Do you know the story behind the Dead Sea Scrolls, and WHY the finding of them was so miraculous?
For years people had been wondering if we were reading a diluted version of the original Bible.
When the scrolls were translated (keep in mind that they were over a thousand years old, they dated back to right after Christ was resurrected), the translations were almost EXACT to what contributed to the King James Version (which was the first English translation) of the Bible. The actual percentage was almost 99%.
How's that for a start?

Answer 6

The Bible says that no one knows what a man is thinking except the spirit that is in him and likewise no one the things of God, but The Spirit of God. In order to know the things of God, you first must have His Spirit. 1 John 5:12 says - He that hath the son hath life; and he that hath not the son hath not life. You can't have the spirit of God without receiving it. Jesus said in John 8;44 - You are of your father the DEVIL. The reason Jesus said that is because it is impossible to walk around and breathe on planet earth without a spirit inside your physical body. According to James 2:26 - says the body without the spirit is dead. Adam had God's Spirit in him when he was created, but lost it!

Answer 7

How do u know the old bible was the word of god ??

Answer 8

They have so many ancient manuscripts,to name a few,Codex's Alexandrina,Vaticanus,Sinaiaticus.Plus partial manuscripts,from the Dead Sea Scrolls,pieces of a 1rst century book of John,Letters(my favorite evidence for people who say the Bible was written hundreds of years after the fact)from the 1rst century and early 2nd century church fathers who quote from all parts of the Bible without change in what we have.The Dead Sea Scrolls has a book of Isaiah exactly as the one we have.
Don't let the liberal"Scholars " decieve you .There's a ton of evidence ,the Bible is the same now as 2000 years ago,and further back.

Answer 9

Ask God

Answer 10

Ask Him, as it directs in James 1:4-5. God will tell you so.

Answer 11

It's not. It's the edited version of the original word. Do some research on Constantine from the Roman empire.