Christians: what is your proof that the bible is true?

Question

i am atheist but just wondering.

i am not just asking this to make fun or anything like that. i am really interested in other peoples views. i want to see both sides before i just decide that i dont believe in god. and to all atheists, please dont answer just to tell me that you are atheist.

Answer 1

when people RECeive His spirit from Him theres no doubt!!!

Answer 2

There is a long list of circumstantial reasons that you can look up on the Internet using Google, so I won't bother. I think that what you are asking is why I believe, not some cut & paste from a website that you could find yourself.

If the disciples were lying about Jesus coming back from the dead, then why didn't any of them recant their story while they were being tortured to death? Someone who KNEW that he was lying would surely have recanted his story in order to save his own life.

Only one apostle -- John -- died a natural death, and we know that John was imprisoned and exiled for his story. It appears that the others were killed for their faith. Paul seems to have been tortured and imprisoned on several occasions for his story, and it eventually cost him his life. The atheist argument that these people were making up myths in order to gain control of people, or for wealth or power, makes no sense. Paul lost his influence, position, and power when he converted to an unpopular minority sect (Christianity) from a popular majority one (Orthodox Judaism had more followers at the time).

I don't think that all of these people were knowingly lying; that would be irrational, and they don't sound insane when you read their writings.

If you are asking how do we know that the Bible as we now have it is accurate and unaltered, then that is a different argument. I don't want to bore you with technical discussions of textual analysis, or the science of comparing old documents from the desert, so I will just give you the short answer.

The short answer is that hundreds of skeptics have tried for hundreds of years to debunk the Bible, and so far, ALL have failed. The best that skeptics can do, as far as I have seen, is to it nit pick at the wording of an obscure verse or two taken from a bad English translation. This makes the skeptics sound desperate, not convincing. Think about all of the silly arguments that you have seen on the R&S forum on Y!A. With all due respect, the atheists arguments here tend to strengthen my faith, not weaken it, if all of these silly objections to the Christian faith are the best that they can do. They sound desperate, not thoughtful.

The Bible is the most scrutinized and examined piece of literature in history. If there was any real evidence that the Bible has been altered or changed, surely someone would have found it by now.

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I've also seen people lives change, sometimes drastically, when they put their faith in God's word. Surely the personal life changing experience of hunderds of people who turned their lives around for the better means something.

The guy at the link below also has a good point:

Answer 3

Well, there is plenty of proof, but let me try this one.
God told Moses that he would come amongth them and he would be rejected and he would send the Jews all over the world and take away the promised land. Then he would reunite them at a later time when he needed them again.
Now this was written before Jesus walked the earth. To make the known history short, the Jews rejected Jesus, and Isreal was lost. Isreal only became a country again in 1948.
Interestingly enough no other culture has survived or spread without a country like the Jewish culture.
You dont see Amorites walking around do you?
This prophecy was given by the word of God, and it became 100 percent true, long after it was written.
Want more? Read the bible, its full of prophecies that have come true long after the bible was written.

Answer 4

It's uniqueness. The hundreds of prophecies fulfilled are more than coincidental. It is verified by history, archeology, philosophy, and believe it or not science doesn't really contradict it only some scientific theories.
The more recent digs at Tel Ebla has actually established David in the lineage of the kings of Israel when prior to that he was proposed to be a myth or metaphor by the liberals who didn't want to accept the Biblical account of him. Science is discovering more and more evidence that authenticates the flood of Noah. Paleoclimatologists date the Earths most profound climate change about the same time as the Biblical flood event. Mountains created in seconds instead of years is now being supported. The sea level is profoundly higher than it was prior to Noahs time. Mammoths buried by flood waters along with every other fossil that was instantaneosly sedimentized. Great PBS megaflood episode can really apply world wide in my opinion.

Answer 5

The prophecies that have come true and the ones that are coming true. The Bible predicted Alexander well before he came into power. There is historical proof of this look at the dead sea scrolls. Also It states that Israel would become a nation again and it did. The Bible has also stated more but these are just a few. PS It also talked about the fall of Rome.

Answer 6

Well, for one, all of the prophecies that have come true. I mean, it could not have been a coincidence that three kings, looking for the Savior, traveled hundreds of miles after studying ancient documents prophesying about the messiah, ended up at Christ's birth.

Answer 7

I belive in God because I have an experience of Him. My faith is not a faith I have inherited, but one based on a personal relationship. I belive in God and in Jesus his son because I know them, personally. I can read about someone, and even see pictures and hear stories, yet never know the person. To know someone, you must spend time with them, speak together, and share your heart. This is true of God and Jesus as well.

Answer 8

See Manuscripts, Archaeology, Prophecy, and Statistics

http://www.equip.org/site/c.muI1LaMNJrE/b.2635115/k.AED8/DB011.htm

Answer 9

Well, the evidence was recently authenticated in a peer-reviewed journal. Didn't you see that?

Oh wait...the Bible isn't science. I keep forgetting... ;-)

I have all the proof I require in the form of answered prayers, miracles, and peace with my beliefs.

Answer 10

I believe in the bible because when I have prayed before reading it, I can feel a "stirring" in me. I am then guided to passages that have meaning to me in my situation.

My parents were non-religious and so never told me the bible is true, and I became a Christian as an adult.

Answer 11

My life is my proof. Since you don't know me, I know that doesn't mean a lot to you, but there it is ... it's my own proof.