What proof is there that the Bible is the word of God?

Question

I see it quoted as the infallible word of God quite often on this site, as if it is something totally unarguable. If this is so, surely there is some proof that it did, in fact, come from God. What is this proof?

The only thing I'm seeing right now is:
1. Faith (why not have faith the Qur'an is the word of God?)
2. Prophecy, which, strangely, is all fulfilled by the same book and unverified by outside sources.

Answer 1

There is no evidence to support this claim. The contradictions make it unreliable. Even if there were no contradictions, there is still no evidence. Quoting one claim to support another is not a way to prove anything.


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Answer 2

How about this one. the bible identifies only one species type, the pig in all its varieties, as the only species to have a completely split hoof but doesn't chew it's cud. That was written more than 3,300 years ago in the Middle East. In the time since, many new species have been discovered, but none, not even one, non-pig related species has been discovered with a completely split hoof that doesn't chew its cud. Now, if that statement was written by a man, he was extraordinarily lucky as a man of that time could not possibly have known.

Likewise, the bible mentions that fish (not marine mammals, reptiles or amphibians) with fins and no scales are not permitted to be eaten. It mentions nothing about any fish with scales and no fins. Why? Because such a creature doesn't exist. Again, how could a desert dweller have known this?

Don't look up...the sky is falling!!!!

Answer 3

There are a number of things that believers will point to as "proof" that the Bible is the word of God. What I want to see is some COMPELLING proof for this.
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Answer 4

there is no proof to anything.

all experience and all knowledge is subjective. anyone could argue anything and appear to be right, if they are talented debaters - doesn't prove anything tho.

all you have is your own experience - you can't trust anyone else's. that's why it's up to every human being to come to terms with God him/herself. most are too scared to do this - so they argue intellectually about why they don't have to.

it's human nature to run away from the really big questions. it takes maturity to ask scary questions, and to be prepared to actually listen for the answers. most never manage either.

it's scary to accept that intellect and arguments mean nothing... your own personal experience is all you have. and you can't argue with someone else's personal experience, unless you are living under the illusion that it is possible for you to prove anything...

Answer 5

The Bible was inspired by God, it was not actually written by Him. Many authors from all different backgrounds have written the Bible, all men of God. There is no proof that it is inspired by God, it is only evident.

Answer 6

The proof is in prophecy. The Old Testament predicted the life of Christ right down to His clothing being gambled over. The Old Testament writings are dated one thousand years plus before the birth of Christ. Only God can tell the future.

Answer 7

The Bible has "manmade" written all over it. One of the obvious giveaways is Yahweh's fixation on one little tribe, to the exclusion of a whole world. Yahweh adopts that tribe as his special people, and he leads them in bloody little wars against their neighbors. That is to say, Yahweh acts no differently than Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, or Baal, the storm-god of the Canaanites, or Dagon, or any of the other chief tribal gods in the neighborhood. Each of these primitive gods is concerned with one little tribe, because each was manufactured by that tribe--as a personification of nature.

It never occurred to the ancients to question the morality exhibited by their gods. The fearful forces of nature spoke powerfully and man listened. Who could question the power of lightning or the thumping of giant hailstones or the strength of floods? It never occurred to the ancients that a truly powerful god would not have to act in such clumsy ways, for nature was the only god they knew. It never occurred to the ancients that a truly wise and powerful god would communicate face to face with each man or woman rather than through nebulous dreams, divinations, or (later) vague scriptures and obscure answers to personal supplication. The gods of nature never spoke openly, but rather in whispers and dreams and omens, or so the ancients perceived. It never occurred to them that their gods should be concerned with the well being of all peoples, including their troublesome neighbors. Gods in those days were tribal gods, including Yahweh. They concerned themselves only with their particular tribes.

On a clear night look up at the sky. Look beyond the stars and into the great void. Are those trillions upon trillions of galaxies out there, stretching across inconceivable distances, each bearing billions of suns that support countless worlds, created for the sake of man alone? Would a rancher carefully prepare 1,000,000 acres in order to house a few ants? Of course not! But religious conceit and the human ego know no bounds, and many people further believe that God is only interested in their little tribe or religious sect out of a whole world of humanity. Such conceit just boggles the mind!

A god smart enough to design a living world--and powerful enough to set galaxies into motion--would have interests as wide as the universe itself. All of humanity would come equally under the caring hand of such a deity. There would be no special people or sect. And, you would never catch such a god leading one tribe in vicious, little wars against its neighbors as though he were a school boy at play!

Since the New Testament is based on the Old, at least according to the authors of the Gospels, and since the Old Testament is built around Yahweh, and since Yahweh is clearly a tribal god, the working brain immediately concludes that the Bible is a manmade work.

Answer 8

II Peter 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost are all one. Therefore making God the author of the bible. Yes he used men that He chose, but it was The Holy Spirit that guided them. I John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Answer 9

Jesus is a pure representative of God but the book that they call the bible has much been changed misconstrued. For the original New Testament (teaching of Jesus) who originally taught Karma, reincarnation, no one goes to hell eternally and vegetarianism. google gospelofthenazirenes.com Following Universal Truth will set one free. Not the Ancient roman governments version of it.

Answer 10

Hello rt66lt.. :)

I write this with ~Love~


Any Book, thought or belief, can and is argued, by others that do not believe what is written or is said..

Especially if it contridicates with what they believe..no matter what proof the person may have.. :(


In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With ~Love~ In Christ.. :)