Why should we believe the bible is the word of God?

Question

I have recently come to doubt the writings of the bible because I just cannot believe it's the divine inspired word of God. I wish I could but I haven't yet found any reason to. I know that men wrote the bible and men are very fond of controlling one another and so much of what's written in the bible I find brutal and cruel.

Answer 1

It is ALL about control and fear. The government and church go hand in hand in this, that's why in the "olden days", so many Kings ran their countries with a strict religious view. Cue the slaughter of thousands of protestants in Britain.

The stories in the Bible are just myths. People believe it because they want comfort, but people need to accept that the world is chaotic, and that they can't fix anything by praying at night. And when their prayers come true, they thank God, but when they don't come true, they think it was just God's will and forgive and forget.

If God loved all his children, then wouldn't he accept the homosexuals and all the other sinners? Was the Earth really created 6,000 years ago? Does the Sun revolve the Earth, or vice versa? God promised Noah there would no more floods, but global warming is a real issue now.

Answer 2

This world is brutal and cruel. Even back then. Honestly, how can anyone look at the world and doubt that there is a God, or that the bible is real.
The thing is, there IS proof. There really was a guy named Jesus that claimed to be The Masia.
You make the decision. What about all the people that saw him after he rose from the dead. No normal man could have done that. And all his incredible miracles! Read the Bible again and tell me. do you really have any dought? HOW! Dude! Look around you! If this earth was even one centimeter closer to the sun, we would all burn! And if we were one centimeter further away, we would ALL FREEZE! God is amazing! Just use common since...

~Kelsey

Answer 3

I do believe in God, and I am fairly certain some parts of the Bible were inspired writings. However, as far as it being 100% from God's lips to the paper.. no, there is historical proof that isn't true. One way we know that is that there are mentioned in the Bible at least nine other books, by name, that aren't in the final text. The book of Jashur is referenced in the books of Joshua and Samuel, Book of the Wars of the Lord in the book of Numbers, Book of Shemaiah, Book of Iddo... these are a few of the books which are mentioned as being part of the Bible, but they aren't in our version we have today. But the biggest problem is that every theology student knows that Emperor Constantine (a pagan) in the year 325 created the Christian religion and he did it by editing the Bible and adding and taking away things as he saw fit. We don't know what he decided to put in and take out. It is a good bet he took out the books I mentioned before. Some say there were as many as 80 books of the New Testament removed. This information is easy to look up historically accurate fact and I invite you to check it out. I don't think that means you shouldn't believe in God. But I feel it is completely rational for you to doubt the Bible as being accurate in it's current form. Besides that do you know how many times it has been translated and retranslated? The current version most people use King James, is in language so old and archaic, the normal average church goer doesn't have a clue what it is talking about half the time. And that is how the clergy likes it.

Answer 4

Before you ask yourself is the bible true, you must first ask,
who is God and where can I find him? For God is the author
of the bible correct? According to the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary God is defined as the supreme or ultimate reality. If I am coreect you are looking for the Truth and the truth is the
word in agreement with the act. The bible is a history book. Within this history book are prophecy's. A prophecy is a prediction made at some point in time about what will occur in the future. You are a student of truth so tell me what events
do you see recorded in the bible can you observe in the history books or better yet that you see taking place in the earth at this hour and time? The answer is within self for only
through diligent studying and application can we find truth.

Answer 5

I have great difficulty believing that the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God because it is so poorly written. If God inspired it, the writing would be much better, would be easy to understand, would not required priests or preachers to interpret, would not lead to a proliferation of religious denominations or sects, would have inspired writers in all cultures to write the exact same thing, and would be so influential that the believers would donate money to churches that actually spent the donations to bring peace on earth instead of building huge entertainment centers for club members who spend their time beating their breasts in public.
No, the Bible is not the inspired word of God, it's the product of men with personal agendas at specific points in time.
What happened to all those other books that were written? Who inspired the censors? What was the politics of the day, particularly during the reign of Constantine?

Answer 6

The bible can be extremely brutal. There is much violence and bloodshed; especially in the Old Testament! That does not mean it is not true. If you read the bible literally many parts of it are very hard to comprehend. Bill Maher said it best I think... "if you exchanged some stories in the bible with your childs fairy tells would you know the difference." And also remember that as you read the bible you are not reading it in its original form. You are reading someones version of it. They don't call it the King James Bible for nothing!

In any event to answer your main question, the reason you should believe the bible is the word of God is FAITH! If there was "proof" that everything was real there would be no atheist! Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.

Answer 7

We need to take the Bible with a grain of salt. You need to consider this. The Bible as it is today has been translated and re translated so many times there is no possible way that it reads like the original scrolls it was taken from.

Try this. Get a whole bunch of your friends together or do it in class, your teacher will probably actually want to do it due to the educational value of it. - Say a sentence to the person at the very left front of the classroom. He or she now tells the person behind him or her, then he or she does the same as the sentence snakes its way front to back, back to front, across the classroom each student must repeat it to the next person in order. When it makes it to the last person in the class, have him or her recite the sentence aloud, and then recite the original sentence aloud and see how much it has changed. This is what has happened to the Bible. It is also what happens to rumors as they go through the school's proverbial grapevine. Think about this next time you hear someone spreading rumors.

Answer 8

You are absolutely right. And what about the movies you watch? Too barbaric and cruel also without God? Yet that doesn't stop you from going to watch them. I guess that's like me and the Bible. I find much truth in what I see there. The Bible does not cover anything up. It's called the truth. I believe it is the Word of God more because it is all there.

Answer 9

Of course it's not, the bible was created 1500 years after Yeshua/Jesus death, how could it be? And the scriptures that were picked were edited and changed to get rid of specific concepts to appeal more to the agenda of those in power, their orthodox rendition, although enough is preserved for those in the know to perceive and see the true reality of, especially if they look at things like the Thomas Gospel and other pre-4th century early Christian writings.

People have to remember that the scriptures that are in the bible were hand picked by bishops from the west and Emperor Constantine in 325 A.D when they at that very assembly decided that Jesus was God and created the false trinity and made it law and messed with the scriptures to support this doctrine. The word of God is within each and every individual, indwelling as the True Teacher within them. Has nothing to do with scripture, rather scripture is there t invoke you to draw upon your own True Teacher, which is your genuine Nature.

Shalom.

Answer 10

It was written by men who were supposedly inspired by God, to me it reads more like the kind of stuff King Solomon or the Greeks were famous for creating. They regularly held intense intellectual and philospohical debates and brain stormed all of the stuff you find in the bible. Apparently the King James version was added to by none other than ye olde William Shakespear, which could explain the more poetic verses in the bible. frinstance what is as strong as a lion but sweeter than honey? sounds like a poem to me all be it a non rhyming one.