Why do you think the bible is true?

Question

Like what makes it a truthful book and not just a work of fiction like the Illiad or the odyssey? I am sure you christians do not believe that the koran is the truth. What makes the bible more true than any other religious book? A lot of the religious books were written over a span of hundreds of years my multiple people. So, what makes you so sure that the bible is actually words from god, and not just another book of fiction to try and explain events that happened? Especially since many things in the bible are known not to be true by evidence (ya I know, that pesky little evidence) such as a global flood.

Malia S - I have probably read the bible more that most christians. And I mean the whole thing, not the part that the pastor tells you to read. Oh ya, do you hate for your beliefs to be questioned? Seems like all you have is name calling. Lame.

Answer 1

Many biblical scholars agree that some things in the bible are not true and could be stories to convey important lessons as the parables, the great flood, or Garden of Eden. Some areas are considered true such as King Solomon's Temple, the exodus of Hebrews from Egypt and the life of Jesus. Some have these have been supported by evidence as the discovery of the tomb of Herod, the finding of Jacob's ring, and the writings of Josephus, a Jewish historian, who wrote independently from the bible. There has been false findings and scams as well as misinterpretations from one language to another but Christians take a leap of faith in their belief as the Muslims do with the Koran or other faiths do with their holy writings. I do wish people answer these questions intelligently and without fanaticism or the overwhelming need to defend their faith.

Answer 2

I don't know how many Christians will tel you this, but the reason why there is so much adherence to saying that the Bible is true is because of the urging that the Holy Spirit brings.

I have no idea if you have had a spiritual experience or not, but it makes you think that there is something other than what we see here on Earth. Most people seem to have never had a spiritual experience, so I am careful not to go off like everyone has. I had spiritual experiences long before I was Christian, after I was a Christian, and ESPECIALLY when I became a Christian. God really made it convincing.

So I think that the Bible is true because I am convinced by the same Spirit who raised Jesus Christ from the dead urges me to find truth from it's pages. He teaches me what to value. And the Bible is therefore a very valuable thing. In one way, it's just a book. But in another way it's telling me the truth about God. And that's saying a lot.

Answer 3

This is why I believe it is true.....first and foremost....FAITH!!!! Now the second thing is partly due to some of the things you said such as the Bible being written over a span of 100s of years by multiple people and there are not any mistakes in it.....meaning there are no overlaps of what the people stated. As far as the Koran or other beliefs, I have not read them, so I decline to say......Thirdly, I just believe!!!!!

Answer 4

The bible has been rewritten and revised so many times that the essential teachings of Jesus have almost been completely obscurred. This is why people feel they need to go to bible study and why its interpretation has been open to dabate and opinion. Its meanings are unclear, vague, and in my opinion, it has little value whatsoever if you are trying to "find God" in you life. There are some parts of the book of Thomas which still preserve the essence of what Christ was trying to say. What that is essentially is that we are all one in Christ or that WE are God. If you are interested in this at all there are a number of great spiritually enlightening books out there.

Answer 5

If you wanted a one word answer, it is Faith. Like the bible says, If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God...
All you have to do is sincerely read it and ponder what you have read and ask God if it is true. The answer doesn't always come right away but you feel peace and just know and have faith. It is like trying to explain what salt tastes like to someone that has never tasted it. There area a lot of things you can say it isn't (sour, sweet) but to actually describe it is hard, just like describing what faith is like when you believe and others that haven't "tasted" don't believe.

Answer 6

Not whole could be higher mentioned. Some already forget about the 7 books Luther eliminated. In the sixteenth c., Luther, reacting to critical abuses and clerical corruption within the Latin Church, to his possess heretical theological imaginative and prescient (see articles on sola scriptura and sola fide), and, frankly, to his possess inside demons, eliminated the ones books from the canon that lent help to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed on this means have been books that supported such matters as prayers for the lifeless (Tobit 12:12; two Maccabees 12:39-forty five), Purgatory (Wisdom three:one million-7), intercession of lifeless saints (two Maccabees 15:14), and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15). Luther desired to take away the Epistle of James, Esther, Hebrews, Jude and Revelation. Calvin and Zwingli additionally each had disorders with the Book of Revelation, the previous calling it "unintelligible" and forbidding the pastors in Geneva to interpret it, the latter calling it "unbiblical". The Syrian (Nestorian) Church has best 22 books within the New Testament at the same time the Ethiopian Church has eight "further." The first version of the King James Version of the Bible incorporated the "Apocryphal" ( Deuterocanonical) Books. The 7 books eliminated from Protestant Bibles are identified via Catholics because the "Deuterocanonical Books" (versus the "Protocanonical Books" that don't seem to be in dispute), and via Protestants because the "Apocrypha." The concept that every one found out reality is to be determined in "sixty six books" isn't just now not in Scripture, it's contradicted via Scripture (one million Corinthians eleven:two, two Thessalonians two:15, two Thessalonians three:6, one million Timothy three:15, two Peter one million:20-21, two Peter three:sixteen). It is a idea unprecedented within the Old Testament, in which the authority of folks who sat at the Chair of Moses (Matthew 23:two-three) existed. In addition to this, for four hundred years, there was once no outlined canon of "Sacred Scripture" apart from the Old Testament; there was once no "New Testament"; there was once best Tradition and non-canonical books and letters. Our Lord situated a Church (Matthew sixteen:18-19), now not a booklet, which was once to be the pillar and flooring of Truth (one million Timothy three:15). We can recognise what this Church teaches via watching now not best at Sacred Scripture, however into History and via studying what the earliest Christians have written, what folks who've sat at the Chair of Peter have spoken continuously with Scripture and Tradition, and what they have got solemnly outlined. To feel that the Bible is our best supply of Christian Truth is unbiblical and illogical.

Answer 7

Faith. and, the Bible is very historically accurate, it has also made prophesies that have come true in modern times. I do not believe the Koran or any of the other books because they go against the Bible, and you can't add or subtract from the Bible anyway.
You know, you can't prove evolution any more, less really, then the Bible, so you don't "know" how we happened either, personally, i think a giant explosion is more stupid then a "God"

Answer 8

2 Timothy 3:16 says, All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness.

Answer 9

It is faith that drives our beliefs, how are you to know that the bible is completely false. Did God tell you it wasnt?

Answer 10

Because the bible told me so.