How is the Bible the word of God?

Question

Some of you may say, it's was the holy spirit... what's the difference between the 'holy spirit' and crazy people who hear voices in their head?

And if it were written by a 'holy spirit' why does the bible only address events and countries of that time. Wouldn't God know there would be an America, or airplanes, or nuclear weapons in 1500 years?

Answer 1

The Bible being the Word of God, it is God who picks the subject matter. His chief intention is to disclose to mankind how it can be reconciled to its Creator. This is disclosed in the New Testament, the record of God concerning His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
I for one can testify, when I was generally ignorant of God and the Bible, having only a superficial knowledge based on the religion of man, one day God disclosed Himself to me and totally transformed me from the inside out, causing me to be born again of the Spirit through the name of Jesus Christ. I did not even know such a thing was possible. I did not know it was taught in the Bible until a year later, reading in John 's Gospel, chapter 3.
Since then I have come to realize that everything in the Book is in fact true and the Word of God, and I have put this to the test and proved it in my own experience.
I don't have time to go into detail, but I believe the Bible does disclose many future historic events.
It predicted the Jews would be regathered and Israel would be re-established as a nation over 3500 years ago. (See Deuteronomy 30:1-5)
I don't think that's a coincidence.

Answer 2

Your reasoning is sound. So, here is the proof that the Bible is the Word of God. Man is not able to prophesy future events.
http://schnebin.blogspot.com/2007/04/proof-of-god.html

As for your details,

"Wouldn't God know there would be an America"
America was born by God for one purpose, to watch over Israel when she was reborn. Now that Israel can stand on her own, America will be taken out of the last days scenario. There is mention of America, but only as those on the coastlands complaining that Islamic countries are invading Israel.

...or nuclear weapons.
Ezekiel 39 describes the cleanup after a nuclear detonation.
Rev. 18 speaks of Iraq post-nuclear exchange.
2 Peter 3 speaks of the elements melting from heat.

Answer 3

Different people wrote the separate books of the Bible. For instance...Matthew wrote the book of Matthew, Mark wrote Mark and so on. Paul wrote letters to the people of Corinth and they are called 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians. The men of the New Testement did have the advantage of having the Holy Spirit that dwelled within them.
We believe that God guided the author's hand and chose which books to keep in the Bible...that is why it is the Word of God.
The Bible is the only book that has survived for so long...it is blessed and protected by God.

Answer 4

"I'm right because I say I'm right" is at the core of the Bible's 'authority' and its claim to be God-inspired/the "Word of God."

For some reason, people who are normally logical and rational will accept such an absurd premise when it comes to the Bible, when they would do the logical thing and ridicule that line of logic in any other context. I fear the reason for this is the brainwashing/indoctrination that is usually 'bundled' with the Bible, and it happens to people starting at very young ages, sadly.

EDIT: The person above me ("~~LynA~~") is outright lying. There is no contemporary evidence of Jesus at all.

The 'soonest' account written about Jesus in the Bible is written at least 40 YEARS AFTER his alleged death by Saul of Tarsus. But this doesn't even really count because Saul writes with no knowledge of any of the alleged 'great events' in Jesus's life--none of his miracles, no virgin birth, no wise men, nothing. The only parts of Jesus's alleged life he mentions are the very last bits (crucifixion and resurrection), and he places them in a mythical realm. That is, he doesn't even talk about Jesus as someone who was alive just a few decades ago, but as someone who never walked the Earth--the closest he comes to comparing Jesus to someone who walked on the Earth was saying that IF he walked the Earth, he would not be a priest. That's basically it. Saul clearly does not speak as one who had any real familiarity with the alleged life of Jesus Christ.

And that's the STRONGEST tie Christians have got, the account that's closest to his alleged life. Everything else comes several DECADES AFTER that! This is weak, even for hearsay. Fortunately for Christians, few people are aware of and/or scrutinize this extremely weak link--if you ask most Christians about how Christianity got started, they will give you blank stares...or, they will lie to your face like "~~LynA~~" did.

Answer 5

Supposedly the writers were 'inspired by' the holy spirit. Which is indeed a lot like voices in your head. The men who wrote it, of course, had no way to realize how much of the world they did not know.

Answer 6

THe NT was written within 100 years of Jesus walking on the earth, by men who actually saw HIM and HIS miracles and HIS crucifixition. HIS life, death and resurrection applies even today, from Nuclear Weapons to 9/11 to the Iraq War.

Answer 7

Actually, most people who have had conversations with God, were considered crazy...
The bible is the word of God, because God inspired them men that wrote it to write.

Answer 8

Yes and it is written in the Bible just in their way of describing it back in those days. See God can do what ever He likes and He chose them to write all but the ten commandments which He wrote Himself. He truly is an awesome God to say the least. Take care and may God bless you spiritually.

Answer 9

Everyone who calls th o.t. the inspired word of God is calling Jesus a liar. Jesus made it crystal clear in The Apocryphon of John that Moses was wrong and that the god of the o.t. is satan. Ask the Spirit of truth for confirmation of this or risk hearing those dreaded words "depart from me you workers of iniquity, I never knew you."

Answer 10

The Bible is a collection of folktales and mythological stories from historically obscure Semitic tribes of semi-nomadic illiterate goat herders who lived thousands of years ago.

They did not know those things because they thought that the Earth was flat with air above and water below and that the night sky was a dome with little lights provided by God.

Remember, these were people who had to ask their God for a decision on whether having sex with their livestock was OK or not.