Why do Christains claim the Bible is the "word of God"?

Question

I think it's just the word of another Human being. Lets face it, anyone can say anything and say it was God talking to them. I think is very arragant to claim to have God talking to you...

If it was written today, the author would probably be condemmend as a mad man, or get a price put in his head!

To hooahwife:
Who said I was worried?

Come on guys! No one has really answered my question. Just a lot of Religious people getting angry with me or quoting the Bible. This is suppose to be a lighthearted debate.

Answer 1

Hell i'm with ya on that one sister! And its been re-written so many times with so many versions (? nearly typed virgins lol) that have spawned individual religions that are now at loggerheads with each other.

Answer 2

Investigation by even the most skeptical will also reveal that there exists NO SINGLE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY that has been shown to prove error, factually or doctrinally, in the Bible. There is lots of speculation and hypotheses, but not a single verifiable fact. If you or anyone should discover one, you will become quite famous. Yet, since recorded history, no one has offered it up and entered their names into the history books. Instead what we have is pseudo-science pandering to the masses, as in the recent John Cameron tomb of Christ debacle.

As a simple experiment, try turning your objective intellect towards the argument that no book, comprising 66 “mini-books”, written over a period of 1500 years by 40 vastly different authors, having an outstanding literary internal consistency and coherency, could be written by mankind alone. Add to that the survival of the book’s ancient manuscripts, numbering in the tens of thousands, over thousands of years and yet these manuscripts remain over 98% textually pure. How this possible, when compared to all the other ancient writings are so few in number? For instance, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain all books of the Old Testament, except Esther, and have been dated to before the time of Christ. Now consider Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Only ten copies written about 1,000 years after the event are in existence. In comparison, there are over 24,000+ New Testament manuscripts, the earliest one dating to within 24 years after Christ. How can we objectively and rationally explain this book, the Bible, especially in light of the claims I have made above?

An honest study of biblical prophecy will compellingly show the divine authorship of the Bible. Further, archeology confirms (or in some cases supports) accounts in the biblical record. No other holy book comes close to the Bible in the amount of evidence supporting its divine authorship.

Answer 3

All of the Old Testament prophets were branded as madmen too. Moses repeatedly had to put the Israelites in check; they got out of line every time he climbed the mountain to talk to God. When the Holy Spirit first fell on the believers at Pentecost, those outside thought they were drunk.

And from what we know, God doesn't talk to us like that any more... or at least he won't until the end times. We also believe that the Bible as it is is the complete and inerrant Word of God, so if someone added to it it would either mean they were a heretic, a lunatic, or the end times were in fact here (or any combination of the three).

Answer 4

you discovered yet another controversy in a believers arguments.
But I see it coming, how a believer will answer this, I heard it many times:
It happened like this: those guys writing the bible were "inspired" by god. But I remember, there was some guy at some mountain with ten pieces of stone writing something down he "were told" by god, if i recall correctly.
But I agree, it is an arrogant statement to say, god spoke to me. If I use the ahteistic argument and say : there is no god because I dont see him nor "hear" him, etc...ah well, you know the answers : look at the flowers, listen to the wind, blah blah.
So lets say, god talks to us in an indirect way.
Its the same thing with all that photographic proof of UFOs.
Why is it, that all those pictures are always totally blurred ?
and the guy pointing at them still says: look, an UFO.
Today, you can get a crispy photo even with your cell phone.
oops, thats another story.
btw, demure-manure, if thats you on that avatar thumbnail: you are very pretty *wink* :)

Answer 5

It is funny that books written 30-100 years after the death of jesus, named pseudonymously, after men some of which may have seen jesus and others who definitely did not, is regarded as the word of god. if it is why are there so many contradiction. Why has man added so much to it? (story of the adulteress, last 12 verses of mark). the text has been manipulated from the start.

At first to prove the validity of what eventually won out as the dominant cult of christianity. Other than the Gnostic's you just don't hear much about the ebionites or marcionites from back then, but these were serious threats to orthodoxy. people speak of early christianity but early christianities would be much more accurate.

After that the Romans manipulated and added much to the "faith". Look at the holidays and much of the mythology, it is all ancient pagan.

Answer 6

Dear Friend,
you are talking( in better word your are claiming ) a possibility not a fact.Altough it is feasible to consider Bible or other religious books as a human out put,it is applicable to regard them as the words of God,In fact if you dont believe to them ,there is no diference that it is real or not , besids, if we have faith in them, the issue is the same,thus the debate over this case is trivial and I think its better to follow our hearts beats and accept its judgement about facts and illusions.

Answer 7

i'm agnostic, yet i could not at all vote for a candidate who professes to assist faith over the form of the USA. The Christian suitable is a methods too busy attempting to produce a theocracy right here and can be antagonistic, for my section. i could plenty want that people who carry the utmost places of work of our government be conversant with the form than with the Bible! i could vote for the Democratic candidate in basically approximately all circumstances.

Answer 8

You are right in that anyone can say anything and say it was God talking to them, but the bible is filled with powerful things that can change a person's life and cause a person to be filled with joy, love, forgiveness, patience, charity, ect...God does speak to you through His Holy Spirit. If you have every been led to do something good for someone, to put aside what you want for another person, to pray or weep for/with someone, then the Holy Spirit has spoken through you.

Answer 9

Who authored the Bible? Do you know? Why are you assuming that one person wrote it? The Bible was written by many people.

Answer 10

2Ti 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:


2Ti 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.