why do people think the bible is the word of god just because the book itself says it is?

Answer 1

Because they love circular logic:

“The Bible is God’s word, because God says so - in the Bible.”
"The Qur'an is God’s word, because God says so - in the Qur'an .”
“The Tanakh is God’s word, because God says so - in the Tanakh .”
“My essay is without error, because I say so - in my essay.”

Answer 2

Is your question, why do people think the bible is the word of God or is it, is the bible really the word of God?

If your question is why do people believe the bible is the word of God, then it is a matter of faith. They support their faith by logic and repeating statements in the bible

However, everyone of any faith, generally make the same statement. For eg. they say that the Torah is the word of God and it is stated in the Torah.

So, after that it becomes a contest between religions. Well, your book is wrong because my God did this, this and this and that proves me right and my God predicted this (well, Nostradamus predicted a lot of things, that does not make him God), so the only true religion is my religion!

The object of the game is not to prove yourself right to anyone, but to increase your own personal faith! Strengthen your relation with God. If only, everyone strengthened their own relation with God instead of trying to prove their viewpoint and debating things, wouldn't this world have more peace?

If your question is, is the Bible really the word of God, then one should look at it carefully. If one looks at the bible carefully, we find that it is a compilation of many different tales. In the tales we find some statements that came from Jesus and those statements can be taken as the word of God. Why would we consider a statement made by Judas (although it is in the bible) as the word of God?

However, it is said in the Bible that first there was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. Now, the Bible was compiled about 2000 years ago. So what was that word, that was first created even before the creation of the universe? This is very similar to the question which arises when one reads genesis. On the second day, God created light and then later on, he created the Suns and the moons. So what was that light he created before the creation of the Suns?

The truth of the matter is what is written in the Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran is not simple to understand. Gods infinite wisdom cannot be comprehended by the human mind. Everything that is said by Jesus is correct but we must expand ourselves to understand it, not try to fit the bible to our very limited understanding! Any effort that we make to understand what Jesus said, we are trying to fit it with our logic, experience and our knowledge of science! The knowledge of God is way beyond Science. Science originated from him!

I take a simple approach. My desire is not to understand the how and why of religion, nor is it to debate different religions. I willl do the one thing, that I can do and that is Love god with all my heart and all my might. If understanding religion is the way to God, then I feel sorry for those who are intellectually challanged for not everyone can understand equally. God does not want us to understand him, he just wants us to love him!

God bless us all!

Answer 3

Because of the truthfulness and accuracy it demonstrates.

I am good at predicting things as I use all of my knowledge of a subject to project the most probable path a subject will take. For instance, I predicted who a girl would marry about 6 years before she met the guy to her and her mother and grandmother. Though it sounded strange to them, it was merely extrapolating what I knew about her in particular and what daughters want in husbands. My little ability is a parlor trick compared to the Bible.

We take the earth as a rounded planet in space as a given. 5,000 years ago, it was anything but. The earth was flat on a turtle. Isaiah 40:22 shows a different view and Job 26:7 goes on to tell of it being just as we know it to be.

Prophecies in the Bible extend from 40 years to 1,000s. From the name of Cyrus who would conquer Babylon and how before he was born to the Messiah coming where, when, how, and what he would do. Isaiah's prophecy was a 1,000 years before Jesus was born.

Jesus predicted Jerusalem and it's temple being destroyed 40 years before it happened and how those who listened and obeyed him could survive. He died in 33CE we know. We also know in 68CE the Romans showed up to destroy everything but oddly withdrew for no apparent reason but, returned a few weeks later to finish the job. Those who obeyed Jesus left on the run and saved their lives. All who were slow or stayed, died.

It is admitted by experts that if we obeyed the instructions found in the Bible for family life, we would have no use for the 600,000 self-help books printed each year that say much of the same things though not as well.

Good science proves the Bible to be true at every instance. Faulty science, by those eager to show the Bible wrong, turns out to be disproved in time, every time. So many studies are proven wrong by other studies as the research is faulty.

All this goes to prove the Bible is the word of God.

Answer 4

The Bible is the word of Gawd because the bible says it's is the word of gawd, and the bible can't be wrong because it is the word of gawd, how can you question the self proclaimed word of gawd? Do you wish to anger gawd? If gawd says in the bible that the bible is his word, then you have to have faith that gawd would not steer you wrong..

Answer 5

That's a mighty big question to expect an adequate answer on yahoo answers. I suggest you watch the DVD The Signature of God. It should answer your question. God bless!!

Answer 6

because its the book of their religion and by saying it's da word of gawd, theyre saying it doesnt need to be proven/backed/clarified with other books

pretty good cop out if u think about it

Answer 7

good question. How can you prove the evidence of a book by looking to that book and no external sources. It's incredible

Answer 8

Because we are what it says we are; we can do what it says we can do; and we have what it says we can have. It has proven itself to us just as God has proven Himself to us.

Answer 9

a lot of families and churches teach this from childhood so the christian knows no better until he opens his mind and questions this and everything

Answer 10

I don't think it is because it says it is, but instead I think it is because it can be proven through history.