What is the greatest single piece of proof that the Bible is true?

Question

Could it Be Israel being scattered?

Giants in the Bible were about 9-10 ft tall, so a very real possiblity.... thanx

That cave drawing that u people use to discredit the Bible or whatever, if you will look closely to the drawings you'll see a unicorn drawing...

Answer 1

Prophecies.
The fulfillment of another Bible prophecy requires urgent action on our part. Regarding the near future, the psalmist prophetically sang: "Evildoers themselves will be cut off . . . Just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more." (Psalm 37:9, 10) What do you think is needed in order to avoid the impending destruction of the wicked, including those who scoff at the Bible's prophecies? The same psalm answers: "Those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth." (Psalm 37:9) To hope in Jehovah means to put implicit trust in his promises and to conform our life to his standards.—Proverbs 2:21, 22.

Answer 2

I would have to say that fulfilled prophecies are the number one indicator to me that the books in the Bible are accurate. Studying Isaiah, Daniel, and the minor prophets will open your eyes; there are hundreds of prophecies that were declared hundreds of years before they were fulfilled. The prophecies that Daniel made about the four great kingdoms when King Nebuchadnezzar had the dream about the giant statue are fabulous. The statue in the dream had a head of gold, which Daniel said was the Babylonian empire, a chest and arms of silver (Medo-Persian empire), belly and thighs of bronze (Grecian empire), and legs of iron (Roman empire). The feet were iron mixed with clay (an empire yet to come). Those same kingdoms were talked about as different beasts, too.

Answer 3

Rhema proves that the bible is the word of God and not man:
The test of the authenticity of a Rhema from God is simple... How does it compare to the whole of Scripture? Orthodoxy says that God will not speak a word that contradicts His written word, the Scriptures, so there is a built-in safeguard to prevent misinterpretation.

By contrast, the Logos (λόγος), is typically used in Scripture to refer to what God has said to His people, that is, the collection of God's sayings about Himself, His relationship with His creation and His Church. The Logos of God is true for all time and in all places. It is easy to see how this can be interpreted both as the bible (God's Word Written) and in the Person of Jesus Christ (God's Word in the Flesh) as seen in John's Gospel, Chapter 1.

The Holy Spirit often uses passages in the Logos of God to create specific guidance, Rhema, for the individual. An example of the Rhema of God is to consider how several different people can read the same passage of Scripture and each sees something different. This occurs because each person is in a different place spiritually in their individual lives so God's word to each of them in that moment of their lives is different - specific to their needs. The Logos (God's original meaning and intention) has not changed, but the Holy Spirit has used it to speak to each according to his or her needs

Evangelical Christians, however, have a much different understanding of rhema. Many evangelicals see rhema as being almost synonymous with logos. In other words, the specific guidance we receive from the Holy Spirit at any given time can only be discerned by the general principles laid down in the written word - the Bible. But this sort of guidance is not the same as that described above - it can only give general guidance about how the decision should be made. If we used the same example of the Christian wondering about when to start their business, the evangelical would argue that God will not give any specific guidance - it is up to the person to work it out for themselves. What God can give guidance on is on how that business should be run, and what the business actually does (Running a Brothel, for instance, would be wrong).

For evangelicals, then, the rhema is when God speaks directly to a person as they apply the Bible's teaching to a specific subject. Some Evangelicals do not believe that the Christian may make up his own mind when there is no Biblical teaching on a situation. However, this will never come up because these Evangelicals believe that there is a biblical teaching on every situation, specific or otherwise.

Answer 4

The Bible is it's own endorsement, notice how no other contemporary writing lends it any credence at all except those that were acknowledged to have been tampered with later, Josephus for example who could hardly have been an eye witness being born 30yrs after the supposed death of Jesus.

Answer 5

Israel scattered and then coming back as a nation recently. It is the only prophecy we know was made thousands of years ago that came to pass only in the modern day.

While it is the fulfillment of prophecy, it doesn't mean that they didn't just get lucky, either. I could guess that Jeb Bush will win the White House in 2012, but it doesn't prove I'm divinely inspired if it happens.

Answer 6

The only ptoof that a week is 7 days long.

and read matthew 24 and look around you. oh and we live by faith not by proof. God does not want us to worship Him according to worldly things. He is greater than our minds can think. He wants us to choose because He has given freedom of choice between good and evil He also wants us to love Him back.....

Answer 7

What if I think the Bible is nothing but a collection of archaic writings by mostly unlearned men (and women) who's sole purpose was to create a basis for controlling the masses by perpetuating fear of torture in some unproven "after-life" or by being beset by negative reprisals from a mythical "Spirit" because you are not doing what these people wanted you to do?

Answer 8

Why do you use the word proof. Proof is an absolute, not open to interpretation.

Answer 9

Unicorns? Giants? Sons of Gods marrying daughters of men?
"Gods"? Hmmm, I thought there was only one God, not many.

Answer 10

Well the bible exists.

The books and passages were all written by people.

Much of the bible, especially the Old Testament, came from versions of oral traditions passed on through generations before they were ever written down.

So what is the truth in the bible? Rather than being about our biological or cosmological origins, the truth is in our cultural origins.

Here's one example.

Origins of the Fall of Adam and Eve.

The Old Testament is basically a compilation of selected oral traditions passed on from one culture and a few of the surrounding tribes. Basically these oral traditions were the stories told around the campfire to give the early hebrews a cultural identity. Pretty much all tribes had their own oral traditions, but what is written in the Old Testament survived because the tribe eventually wrote them down.

There are a few things to consider about this... the first is that all these stories have some truth to them in that they were important enough stories for the tribe to pass them down throughout the generations until eventually they were important enough to write down. The second thing to consider is that these stories were passed on for thousands of years before being written down. Surely the significance of the stories would have changed their context over this vast period of time. The third thing is that these stories were never meant to describe the entire world, only that particular culture. In other words, the stories were based on all that they knew, not all that was.

So what could the story of Adam and Eve have represented for the early Hebrews? The creation of the world? We know this is not the case, but what could have happened that these Hebrews would have found so significant that they would hold it in so high a regard as to call it creation? Can history give us any clues as to what could have been so significant to these people 8000-10,000 years ago?

The fact is, history can tell us about a very significant event that happened at around the same time and in about the same area. This event was the Agricultural Revolution.

Now, it should be said that humans had been around for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the Agricultural Revolution. During this period, human population growth was rather slight. These early tribes were mostly hunter-gatherers with some low-level farming. A comparative look at some of the isolated tribes of today shows that they have a high respect for nature, and concepts like ownership of land and ownership of food are pretty much non-existant. They lived as animals, and by that I mean that they killed and ate what they needed, and for protection, but very rarely more than that. This was pretty much a law of limited competition as we see amung other animals in the wild today. Humans did not claim dominion over the planet or its food. One day the human hunters caught the deer, another day the deer got away, and yet another day a tiger caught the deer. The humans did not resent the tiger for this because they were living as the tiger did.. in a way, whether the deer lived or who caught it, was up to the gods. By "the gods" I of course mean the Animist "gods" found in the majority of tribal cultures.

Fast forward to the Agricultural Revolution when humans began to think differently about their food. Rather than rely on "the gods" for their food, humans began a concentrated wholesale campaign to grow and have complete control over their own food. Animals were domesticated and raised on farms for the purpose of eventually eating them. This time the deer or other livestock belonged to the humans first and foremost. The deer's fate was sealed from birth, it belonged to the humans. The livestock were also protected from other prey, and when necessary, the humans went to war with other would-be competitors for the livestock. To put it another way, humans suddenly took control and decided who lived and who died. Until the Agricultural Revolution, this was the "Knowledge of the Gods."

Do you see where this is going?

The story of the fall of Adam and Eve is the story of the Agricultural Revolution. The story was probably originally told from the point of view of a neighbouring tribe who watched the revolution begin. They believed it was an abomination what these early Hebrews (possibly) were doing. The gods had provided for all up to then and by claiming the knowledge of the gods (eating the apple) they had begun living outside of the laws of nature which had worked so well from the beginning of time. These observers assumed chaos would ensue and "the gods" would no longer provide for them or protect them, thus they were "cast out of the garden." Fortunately for the early Hebrews, this new form of making a living seemed to work quite well. It is likely that the observing tribe was assimilated or at least took up this new way of making a living as it very quickly spread all over the world.

So the story of Adam and Eve wasn't about the creation of humans, but the creation of civilization as we know it! Surely an event worthy of being passed down in a story for generations.

Another thing that is interesting about this, is the spiritual basis of these people was taken away from them. What right did they have to claim dominion over the world and all the animals and plants in it? Who could possibly have given humans the authority to have the knowledge of the gods, of good and evil? Well, who else could give that kind of authority, but the gods themselves.

So this wasn't just the birth of civilization as we know it, but it was also the birth of religion (or perhaps I should say God) as we know it as well. What better coronation story for us, than to be created by god in his own image to rule over the earth.