Why do you think the Bible is trustworthy or that it is not?

Answer 1

The written works of men are useful, but we need to realize that the Bible fills a void that no other book can fill: It tells us the purpose for which human beings have been created. Although many other books contain kernels of wisdom, this book reveals as no other the wisdom and understanding inspired from the mind of God Himself.

This book contains eternal truths we could not discover on our own. When we understand the Bible's true spiritual significance, all other books pale before it. By reading and applying its revealed knowledge, we can reap immeasurable benefits both now and forever. ". . . Godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come" (1 Timothy 4:8).

The Bible is God's gift to mankind, the absolute authority and ultimate judge of human behavior and morality. It reveals the way mankind should walk (Psalm 119:105), as taught by the Being who created man (Genesis 1:26-27).

It discloses the way of life that brings happiness. As King David, the author of many of the Psalms, wrote: "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly . . . but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night . . . Whatever he does shall prosper" (Psalm 1:1-3). Here David refers to the law of God as revealed in the Bible as the proper way to live.


What kind of instruction from God does humanity need? When God created mankind, He instilled in us a high degree of intelligence, curiosity and capacity for learning. He gave each of us a mind that can gather and store knowledge and pass it on to succeeding generations. Through time humans have used this intelligence to observe, describe, discover and build. People have used their minds to record vast amounts of knowledge.

God did not need to give man a book that contained information he could learn on his own. Instead, God gave man a mind with which he could acquire and develop an abundance of useful knowledge. What man needed was a book containing information he could never discover alone—knowledge that must be divinely revealed.

That is the information God has provided. That is precisely what the Bible is. It is a book of spiritual truth. But it also contains information about the material world. God's unfolding of spiritual truths to real, physical humans took place in real, physical settings and among actual, historical events.

The Bible, then, provides us a great deal of physical knowledge. It relates information on material matters such as the ordering of the physical world. It gives us information on the orderly functioning of society. It addresses basic principles of success in occupational and financial matters. It imparts guidelines of nutrition and health.

The Bible describes many types of personal relationships. It addresses principles of psychological and mental health. It provides rudimentary information that touches on the physical sciences. But it does not treat any of these areas exhaustively, because God has given us the ability to search out these matters ourselves.

Answer 2

Roman politicians did not placed the Bible at the same time. The Jews prepare the "previous testomony." a good sort of the writings of the "New testomony" have been often agreed on by using Christians around the top of the 1st century. The Bible became into written by using many diverse human beings over 1000's of years; the undeniable fact that it has survived as a single quantity is remarkable to me. previous manuscripts have been chanced on that practice that the main normally used translations are fairly precise. a good sort of the diversities are actually not substantial. some translations are flat out incorrect - like the "New worldwide Translations." Archaeology has proved that many places interior the Bible did exist; proving the factuality of an experience is annoying to do.

Answer 3

100% Trustworthy.

Answer 4

Deuteronomy is a fake created by scribes under Kings Hezekiah and Josiah and passed off as a lost book of Moses.

Most of Isaiah is fake, everything from chapter 40 on.

Chapter 16 of Matthew is fake, third or fourth century.

The Hebrews didn't enter Canaan until long after Jericho had fallen to invaders.

There is no evidence to support the story of the Exodus, or even the existence of large numbers of Hebrews in Egypt.

If you read the Gospels in the order they were written, with Mark being first, you can clearly see how the story of the Resurrection was being continually embellished. Likewise the two Nativity accounts.

Answer 5

In over 50 years of studying it, I have found it to be trusts worthy.

Its historical accuracy has been confirmed time and again. Look up Sir William Ramsey, who was an atheist archaeologist who set out to disprove the New Testament history and ended up being converted to Christ by its accuracy.

Its reliability as a translation is unquestionable. We have over 2,300 manuscripts from the earliest years of Christianity, found all across Europe, Asia, and Africa, many held by non-Catholic Christians. Yet they agree word for word with each other. Compare this other ancient books, where we may have 8 or 9 total copies, and often (like with Homer's Iliad) as much as 30-40% of the text is in dispute.

Its doctrinal unity is miraculous. Here you have a book that was written by over 40 different authors, on three different continents, from multiple cultures, races and societies, yet it holds together from cover to cover in its doctrines, themes, and images. If you have spend any time on YA, you know that every question gets 100 different answers and theological viewpoints. To get 40+ authors to agree on one theology is nothing short of a miracle.

But more than that, I have seen its affect in the lives of those who embrace it. I have seen lives redeemed, homes restored, diseases healed, sins ended, hopes restored, and life everlasting. The testimony of those transformed by the scriptures is more than adequate proof of its trustworthiness.

Answer 6

If it is the word of some god, he is quite ignorant and of low IQ, for there are many contradictions in it, and its knowledge of science is pathetic. Kings indictes that pi is 3.00, but I kinow it is 3.14159+. I cannot use the Bibkle in engineering or in my drawings and paintings. I cannot use it to buy a hat or a cap that fits me. I can list many more such errors in the Bible. The early parts were written by ignorant Hebrew shepherds. Revelation indicates that the sky is a dome a few miles above us. Some Greeks knew better than that. Aristarchus said the Sun is 5,000,000 miles away. he was far short, but he knew it was much more than 15 miles or less away that Revelation's author believed.

Answer 7

Nope.

There is certainly value in the parables and anecdotes contained within the Bible.

Going so far as to live one's life according to the Bible, however, is foolhardy IMHO. The Bible is a book passed down through the centuries in human hands, how can we be certain the words are truly those of a God?

Do we want to put our faith in the potentially twisted and corrupted words in a book published and edited by humans through the ages? I for one do not.

Answer 8

It is a selection of bronze age middle eastern goat herders tales and legends. It is violent, macho,rude and sometime funny, just like the goat herders that inspired it. Like all tales and legends it is , of course, not trustworthy at all. That's not what tales and legends are for...

Answer 9

Moses did some miracles when He shared the Word of God. Jesus confirmed the Old Testament and promised the New Testament. The Bible is very reliable. : )

Answer 10

Because, when people try to prove it wrong they only find out they are the ones who are wrong. Christianity has claimed more Atheists when they research the authenticity of the Bible than any other religion.