Can you prove to me the bible is the "word of God".?

Question

You cannot use the bible to prove the bible.

Is there some outside source that proves this absurd assumption?

Solly, I admit it. I know the answer is no.

I don't have to prove it is not. I am not making the claim that some jealous murdering deity wrote anything.

Answer 1

No But a Can Prove to You it's a Good Book of Fiction!!!





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Answer 2

There is two ways to know the Bible is the Word of God. Look in the Bible itself and see the Ten Commandments, look under Exodus 20:1-18 or go to a Priest and tell him about the Bible. What it's means in the Bible O.K. The Lord know everything and even you don't if the Bible is not the Word of God.

Answer 3

Realistically (yet no longer spiritually) speaking, to reply to your 'prominent' question... i grow to be examining my Bible whilst seated next to a stranger on a plane whilst he grew to become to me and suggested, “enable's talk. i've got heard flights bypass swifter in case you strike up a communique which comprise your fellow passenger." I, who had in simple terms opened my e book, closed it slowly and suggested to this stranger, "What might you want to speak approximately?" "Oh, i don't understand," he suggested. "I see that GOD e book you have on your arms,” he bellowed, “nicely, enable's talk approximately GOD and how i will instruct that GOD would not exist!” “ok,” I suggested. "that would desire to be an exciting subject count number. yet enable me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all consume the comparable stuff--grass. yet a deer excretes little pellets, whilst a cow seems a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you assume it particularly is?" Visibly bowled over by way of my question, he concept hard and long, and suggested, "Hmm, I have not have been given any theory." To which I spoke back, "Do you experience qualified to talk God once you don't understand sh*t?"

Answer 4

I think coming at this issue this way is not productive. I do not think that proof is the issue here.

I agree quoting 2 Timothy 3:16, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" is simply not useful.

But I think from the secularist side, complaining about this practice gets us nowhere.

I think that the strategy in http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ is much more to the point. It is the additive effect of the useless and sometimes absurd details found in the Bible that goes far enough toward demonstrating that the Bible is a human product and a product of an ancient and alien society.

Answer 5

It would be like me writing on a piece of paper that "I am god" and then showing you that piece of paper to prove to you that I am god. That is the essence of circular reasoning... and why the bible cannot be used as proof that it is divinely inspired. When the source is the proof of the source... the source cannot be shown proven.

Acceptable forms of proof would be verification in other texts of the time, or at least evidence would be the mentioning of the events in the bible in other same time-frame texts. That is not what we see however and there are little to no references from that rather well documented era supporting the events of the bible. One could make the claim that there is some "basis" of truth in the bible, and the events were exaggerated and mystified (exactly as those events of the odessy and the illiad, recounted with poetic adventurism). However that would be the extent of reasonable claims to accuracy in the bible, and those would still largely be speculation as it would be rather odd to have this set of world changing events not recorded by other cultures.

Answer 6

That's not really a question for a forum like this. I have seen that question answered before, but it takes a book, or at least a few chapters to answer. If you don't get any answers that satisfy you here, that's probably why. Of course, the the way you asked the question tells me that you're not honestly looking for an answer.

Answer 7

The word of the Bible cannot be "proven" as the true word of God but neither can it be simply dismissed because it cannot be proven. By definition, religious faith is the ability to accept with the heart what the mind may find improbable and as such, faith requires no formal "proof".
I personally do not put any credence in any organized religion and have a more Humanistic viewpoint. To those who rely on diety based faith, I'll quote John Lennon....

"Whatever gets you through your life s'alright."

Answer 8

The bible is considered by scholars to be an accurate historical document. The bible has never been contradicted by any archeological finding. In many cases archeology lags behind what we already know of history from the bible. For example the archeological world discredited the bible for a very long time over the Hittites. Over many years of archeological research there had never been found any reference, outside of the bible, of a people called the Hittites. Then in 1884 a monument was uncovered by Archeologist William Wright referencing the Hittite people.

Another biblical reference long doubted by archeologists was a king of Babylon named Belshazzar. Eventually in the remains of the city of Ur, carvings were found referencing Belshazzar, the son of the last king of Babylon, who was regent for his father and later was found to have signed many Babylonian documents and treaties. These are just a couple of examples of Archeological accuracy in the bible. There are many more.

The bible is the only religious text that has specific and detailed prophecy that can be shown to have come off exactly as foretold. The bible itself sets the standard for whether or not prophecy is acceptable. The bible standard for prophecy is 100% accuracy – no less. The Bible is full of fulfilled prophecy. For instance there were 60 prophecies foretelling the life and ministry of the messiah. Jesus fulfilled all 60 messianic prophecies foretold centuries earlier in the Old Testament scriptures. The chances that one person might accidentally fulfill just 8 of these prophecies is 1 x 1,000,000,000,000,000.

The City of Tyre
Ezekiel predicted that the city of Tyre would be destroyed by the Babylonians. Then Ezekiel adds that a future invader would tear down the city and throw it into the sea until its bedrock was exposed and used to dry nets. This prediction took place around 586 BC; secular history records that the Babylonians attacked the city of Tyre from 585 - 573 BC. When the Babylonians broke through the gates of Tyre the city was empty. The people had escaped to an island city just off the coast.
Then in 332 BC Alexander the Great attacked the island city that the people of Tyre had escaped to. Alexander’s army needed to create a bridge to the island, so they tore down the remains of Tyre and scraped them into the sea to create a causeway. To this day the site of the old city of Tyre is barren rock used by fishermen to dry their nets.

Many religious writings say that the earth is carried on the back of an elephant or a giant goldfish or on the shoulders of a minor god. But the bible tells us in the book of Job (thought to have been written as early as 1500 B.C.) that God “hung the earth over nothing”. (Job 26:7) The bible also describes the planets as spherical in shape.

Another example: 3200 years ago (more than 3000 years before the advent of modern medicine) the bible alone set forth proper hygienic practices in regard to the proper handling of disease, dead bodies and human wastes. Burning contaminated clothes and bedding, extensive quarantine and washing of those handling the dead or being in contact with those diseased and burying of human wastes far from habitations. These guidelines were all laid out long before “modern” man came close to observing similar practices. The worst plagues in Europe may have been avoided if these biblical precautions had been observed. This shows an understanding of germs and viruses that these early biblical people could not have known on their own.

I also think it is very compelling that a book written over a 1600 year period, by 40 authors, in 3 languages over 3 continents, displays such continuity of message.

Answer 9

Why ask a question when you have already determined in your mind that you know the answer. How can you prove that anything is real or true? FAITH The Bible is the oldest book around (Dead Sea Scrolls etc.). The only thing the Bible could have done to cause a person to detest it so much is convict of sin.

Answer 10

No my friend, I cannot prove to you that the Bible is 'the word of God.' Nor can I prove to you that 'love' is real. They are both something that we just have to take on 'faith'. We have to believe that they exist otherwise we lose faith in all humanity itself.
What would be the point of living a clean, helpful, or wholesome life is there were no afterlife to look forward to? There wouldn't be one would there. Therefore the whole world could live and do whatever they pleased with no thoughts of retribution later on. We would have no need for laws and conformity so the planet could get as vile it pleased because there would be no point in not doing so.
If we didn't have God's word to read and absorb and relish in we wouldn't know what he expected of us. Therefore, I choose to believe(on faith) that the Bible is the 'word of God'.

Answer 11

I'm sure that no one can. It is, after all the word of various people heavily edited by the Romans in the pursuit of effective crowd control.