Can the Bible be validated?

Question

and I don't mean from a spiritual belief point of view and I KNOW there are real people and real places and stuff in the Bible, but as a whole, could it be validated like a historical recountment?

Answer 1

Validation requires scientific principles to be applied and you can't really prove supernatural events that allegedly occured 2000 years ago using scientific principles.

Answer 2

We know that there were Jewish synagogues all over the Mediterranean long before the time of Christ. But, so far, the oldest synagogues ever discovered date to centuries after the time of Christ. Whether we like it or not, time has a tendency to bury the past. Where evidence exists, the Bible has proved correct. Scholars, for example, were not aware of the paleo-Babylonian Empire until the late 18th century, but the Bible correctly dates its origins. Sumerian civilization was not excavated until the mid 20th century, but the Bible correctly dates its origins and fall. The only events that the Bible seems to get wrong are the Exodus (unless it turns out to be a description of the eruption of Thera and the Hyksos invasion, in which case it is correct), the conquest of Canaan (which actually took centuries longer than the Bible indicates), the date when Quirinius was governor of Syria (the Bible is off by about 6 years), the death of Herod the Great (the Bible may be off by a couple of years), and the census of Augustus (off by another 6 years).

Answer 3

The Bible's accuracy and reliability have been proved and verified over and over again by archaeological finds produced by both believing and no believing scholars and scientists. This included verification for numerous customs, places, names, and events mentioned in the Bible.
One among many examples is the fact that for many years the existence of the Hittites (a powerful people who lived during the time of Abraham) was questioned because no archaeological digs had uncovered anything about them. Critics claimed the Hittites were pure myth. But today the critics are silenced. Abundant archaeological evidence for the existence of the Hittites during the time of Abraham has been uncovered.
Bible scholar Donald J. Wiseman notes, "The geography of Bible lands and visible remains of antiquity were gradually recorded until today more than 23,000 sites within this region and dating to Old Testament times, in their broadest sense, have been located." Nelson Glueck, a specialist in ancient literature, did an exhaustive study and concluded: "It can be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverter a biblical reference." Well-known scholar William F. Albright, following a comprehensive studies, wrote: "Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of innumerable details, and has brought increased recognition of the value of the Bible as a source of History."

There are more than 24,000 partial and complete manuscript copies of the New Testament. These manuscript copies are very ancient and they are available for inspection NOW. there are also some 86,000 quotations from the early church fathers and several thousand lectionaries (church-service books containing Scripture quotations used in the early centuries of Christianity). In fact, there are enough quotations from the early church fathers that even if we did not have a single copy of the Bible, scholars could still reconstruct all but 11 verses of the entire New Testament from material written within 150 to 200 years from the time of Christ. Bottom line: The New Testament has an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting its reliability.

Answer 4

Since you know there are "real people and real places and stuff in the Bible that alone is one validation."

It is validate historically, by archeology and manuscripts. Those in turn are validated scientifically by carbon dating.

The Four Gospels of the NT are eyewitness accounts. Why would they be any less valid than any other historical accounts?

And in addition it validates itself by word and action.

Answer 5

If you can find a bible from the first bible to the bible today you will see that it has changed so much that the bible today is not able to be validated as authentic.. so depending on what you want to believe and what the proof is then you have your answer..
The Bible is like a notebook for each Pope we have had ...ever changing every 20 years....

some bibles say Jesus is god, some say he is the son of god...some say he is just a man..... some say Jesus is not even a prophet of god.... depends what you would like to believe..... and some say Jesus is just for the Israelites and that he would refuse to help anyone else( example a Greek who went to Jesus for her sick son, it says he refused to acknowledge her)

Answer 6

The Smithsonian uses it as a reference book to find archealogical sites.

The Bible said that Pilate was tetriarch of Judea. No one believed it because there were no records of Pilate in Rome. Then they found the stone in Caesarea that confirmed it.

No records of a King David. They just unearthed a stone marker dedicated to him.

The BIble spoke of a people that dwelt within the rocks. No one beleived it until they discovered Petra.

Scholars have said that there wasn’t a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit’ to illustrate a point. Workers repairing a sewage-pipe break uncovered the Pool of Siloam in Old Jerusalem.

Modern archaeology has made numerous discoveries which confirm events recorded in The Bible, including bricks without straw at Pithon. Lower levels had good quality straw, middle levels had less (including much which was torn up by the roots, as someone in a rush to meet a quota would be inclined to do), and the top levels had no straw at all.

Bible critics had long sneered at references in the Bible to a people called the Hittites and that the Hittites were simply one of the many mythical peoples made up by Bible writers. Toward the end of the 19th century, Hittite monuments were uncovered at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in Syria, proving the Bible right. Later, in 1906, excavations at Boghazkoy in Turkey and uncovered thousands of Hittite documents, revealing a wealth of information about Hittite history and culture.

Critics claimed that the Babylonian captivity did not take place. The Bible gives specific details about the captivity of Judah by the armies of Babylon early in the 6th century B.C. Scholars have said it’s all just another Jewish myth. However, between 1935 and 1938, important discoveries were made 30 miles southwest of Jerusalem at a site thought to be ancient Lachish. Lachish was one of the cities recorded in the Bible as being besieged by the king of Babylon at the same time as the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:7). Twenty-one pottery fragments inscribed in the ancient Hebrew script were unearthed in the latest pre-exilic levels of the site. Called the Lachish Ostraca, they were written during the very time of the Babylonian siege.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The best validation of the Bible can happen in your own life, if you put into practice what you read in the New Testament.

My life has been radically changed since I asked Jesus to be the Lord of my life and He is still changing it for the better.

Answer 9

It was written by Man, therefore I believe it to be fallible and misinterpreted by what the supposed word of God was meant to be. I don't even have faith in Christianity but if I did I still wouldn't follow the Bible. Its not the answer and explanation for everything. I have as much faith in the Bible as I do Lord Of The Rings.

Answer 10

There are a lot of historical and archaelogical proofs and more being discovered all the time.

The existence of Jesus is also proven from history by the Roman writers and Josephus who was a Jewish historian.