Why do people believe in the Bible and then defend it by saying it is God's word?

Question

I could say the same for any religious text, or work of fiction for that matter; if the only proof that the Bible is true is based on believing that God wrote it, then logically it is just a book. Why don't Christians understand this logic is circular- "The Bible is truth, because God wrote it; And I know that God wrote it, because it says so in the Bible, which is the Truth...."

Answer 1

If it helps them get through this life, let them have it.

Answer 2

Actually, people DO say that for different religious texts. The catholics have other texts that they say is part of God's word. The mormon's have a whole other book they say is part of God's word. The muslims believe the koran is the literal and unchanging Word of God. Some people out there even believe L. Ron Hubbard's book "Dianetics" is the true Word of God!!
But people who are actually familiar with the Bible know it is written by people. Heck, it even gives the names of the people who wrote which portion (James, Matthew, etc...) And different writers introduce themselves as they begin their writings.
But just like muslims have "faith" that the koran is the true word of God, just like the mormons have "faith" that the Book of Mormon is the true word of God, christians have "faith" that the bible is the true word of God.

Answer 3

First, the Bible states it is God's Word, so that's the beginning. Then, the more you read it, the more it fascinates you with the very things written in it. Your eyes are opened to the accuracy of it and the wisdom in it. You apply the verses in the Bible in your life, and you life begins to transform. Your eyes are now more open and the verses you used to question, you now understand. This brings us back to the Bible saying it is God's Word. Now you believe it, not just because it says so, but because God revealed it through your very life.

By the way, I have seen people jump back from its power when I've offered the Bible to them. This has happened on many occassions-true story.

Answer 4

Believe in the bible because it is God's word therefore believe what God wrote. You don't want to you don't have to that's the beauty of it. You want actual proof? Something you can see touch and feel? You want to be able for God to come down from heaven and tell you himself that he exists??!?!!! Well it happened and even in that time people STILL didn't believe. So of course there are people who will just never know God even if he smacked you right in the face.

Answer 5

In reverse we have, "It's true that the bible isn't the word of God because atheists say it isn't; and atheists are never wrong, therefore the bible isn't the word of God."

I'm going over to the government section. Maybe they'll have some really good questions about auto mechanics there.

Answer 6

If that is all the proof there were, then you would be correct. However, the evidence goes WAY beyond that. For me the Bible being the Word of God can be proved through the vehicle of prophecy. To see the evidence of this, we must first establish the fact that God is a spirit who dwells outside of our physical time domain--that is, in eternity. In the Bible, God describes Himself in Isaiah 57:15,

"For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit.'"

If God dwells in the realm of eternity as the Bible states, then He must be able to declare future events as if they had happened in the past. We who live in the physical restraints of time and space have the disadvantage of seeing the world according to a timeline. But God sees the past and the future as one complete picture.

"Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,'" Isaiah 46:9-10

So through the vehicle of prophecy, God throws down the gauntlet to all the other "holy books" and all the other "gods" that dare to claim the title. The God of the Bible challenged in Isaiah 41:22-23,

"Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together."

OK, there is the challenge from the God of the Bible. No other book contains prophecy that has been fulfilled with accuracy.

Answer 7

God ENLIGHTED People to write it,
And well some METAFORS like Adam and Eve or Some Sizes like the one of Goliath.
And If that book has been there for more than 1800 years without being corrected ¿Isn't that somewhat a prove?

Answer 8

As you say, that is as logical as saying the qur'an or book of mormon is god's word because it says so.

Anyone who really believes that a man-made writing is god's word just because the writing says it is, is not likely to have his/her mind changed by logic or reason.

Answer 9

What most Christians forget is that the same reasoning is used by Muslims for proof of Allah, and by Mormon's to prove that Joseph Smith and LDS had the truth.

Answer 10

I know of no Christian who claims that "God wrote it". Espeically not in a literal sense.

Some of the bible is scripture, some is parable, some is moral stories, or God's teachings, etc, etc....

Do you really wish for me to spell out the definition of "Faith"?

And if that is what they believe, it's really no skin of YOUR nose, is it?

Wouldn't it just be easier to ask them when they tell you this?