What makes a person believe the Bible is real?

Question

and don't tell me you saw GOD in a dream.

WHO TAUGHT YOU FAITH?

Answer 1

It always amazes me that people will ask a question and then tell us how or how "not" to answer it.

Answer 2

Many things. First, off the stories from both the Old and New Testaments have been proven correct archeologically. Some examples are:

There was a flood over all of the earth. Tribes from every part of the globe have it recorded in their oral histories.
There was a man named Jesus who not only performed miracles, but was seen by over 500 people some days after His death and burial. This is written about by many historians of the day, not just Christian writers.

And, I have received e-mail from people that I have never met. I am even, right this moment, writing to someone that I have never seen, but I believe that you are real, and that what you have written is a real question.
Similarly, I believe that Jesus is real, and that He did and said what the Bible records. It is not refuted by writings of that day, and His words match His actions.

Then, I know it is the truth the same way I know it is the truth when my daughter says she loves me. There is nothing tangible there that I can feel or weigh, but it is real nevertheless. Kind of like gravity. I know it is real and I believe in it. But, if I did not believe in it, and I jumped off of the top of a building, gravity would still crash me to the ground. Even though I might be screaming all the time I fell, "I don't believe in gravity. It doesn't exist. It is a lie."

I pray that the Bible (and the Savior it reveals) become Truth to you.

Answer 3

The idea that all revealed truth is to be found in "66 books" is not only not in Scripture, it is contradicted by Scripture (1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 1 Timothy 3:15, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Peter 3:16). It is a concept unheard of in the Old Testament, where the authority of those who sat on the Chair of Moses (Matthew 23:2-3) existed. In addition to this, for 400 years, there was no defined canon of "Sacred Scripture" aside from the Old Testament; there was no "New Testament"; there was only Tradition and non-canonical books and letters. Once Scripture was defined from the many competing books, Bibles were hand-copied and decorated by monks, were rare and precious, so precious they had to be chained down in the churches so that they would not be stolen.

In the 16th c., Luther, reacting to serious abuses and clerical corruption in the Latin Church, to his own heretical theological vision (see articles on sola scriptura and sola fide), and, frankly, to his own inner demons, removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45), Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7), intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14), and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15).


Protestants claim the Bible is the only rule of faith, meaning that it contains all of the material one needs for theology and that this material is sufficiently clear that one does not need apostolic tradition or the Church’s magisterium (teaching authority) to help one understand it. In the Protestant view, the whole of Christian truth is found within the Bible’s pages. Anything extraneous to the Bible is simply non-authoritative, unnecessary, or wrong—and may well hinder one in coming to God.

Catholics, on the other hand, recognize that the Bible does not endorse this view and that, in fact, it is repudiated in Scripture. The true "rule of faith"—as expressed in the Bible itself—is Scripture plus apostolic tradition, as manifested in the living teaching authority of the Catholic Church, to which were entrusted the oral teachings of Jesus and the apostles, along with the authority to interpret Scripture correctly

Answer 4

Fulfilled prophecies.

Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi?), followed on August 9, 1945 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki (長崎市, Nagasaki-shi?). They are the only instances of the use of nuclear weapons in warfare.

Survivors described it as fire came from the sky.

Answer 5

I believe it because I saw God in a dream.

Answer 6

It fills a physical space and can be observed through the physical senses. Therefore it must exist.
No as far as the content with in, The woman from Texas gets my support.

Answer 7

The Holy Spirit.

Answer 8

Faith.

Answer 9

It has to be real ....a copy is sitting right here in front of me.
More seriously:
There is something called intrinsic evidence.
Read it, find some.

Answer 10

Typically because the parents said so. Which simply shows their lack of education, since the hundreds of errors in it (and dozens of internal contradictions) are evident to anyone who looks for them.