Is the Bible truly God’s Word?

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Is the Bible truly God's word? Our answer to this question will not only determine how we view the

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Bible and its importance to our lives, but it will also have an eternal impact on us. If the

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Bible is truly God's word, then we should cherish it, study it, obey it, and fully trust it.

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If the Bible is truly the word of God, then it is the final authority for all matters of faith, practice, and morality.

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If the Bible is the word of God, then to dismiss it is to dismiss God Himself. The fact that God gave us the

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Bible is an evidence of His love for us. God communicated to mankind what He is like and how we can have a right relationship with Him.

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These are things we could not have known had God not divinely revealed them to us in the Bible. The Bible contains everything mankind needs to know about God in order to have a right relationship with Him.

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How can we know that the Bible is the word of God and not just a good book? What is unique about the

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Bible that sets it apart from all other books ever written? Is there any evidence that the Bible is truly

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God's word? These types of questions must be seriously examined. There can be no doubt that the

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Bible does claim to be the word of God. This is seen in Paul's condemnation to Timothy. From infancy, you have known the

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Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

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All Scripture is God -breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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There are both internal and external evidences that the Bible is truly God's word. Internal evidences are those things within the

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Bible that testify of its divine origin. One internal evidence that the Bible is truly

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God's word is its unity. Even though it is really 66 individual books written on three continents in three different languages over a period of approximately 1 ,500 years by more than 40 authors who came from all walks of life, the

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Bible remains one unified book from beginning to end without contradiction. This unity is unique from all other books and is evidence of the divine origin of the words that God moved men to record.

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Another internal evidence that indicates the Bible is truly God's word is prophecy. The Bible contains hundreds of detailed prophecies relating to the future of various nations, certain cities, and all mankind.

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Other prophecies concern the coming of the Messiah, the Savior of all who would believe in Him. Unlike the prophecies found in other religious books or those by men such as Nostradamus, biblical prophecies are extremely detailed.

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There are over 300 prophecies concerning Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Not only was

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His lineage foretold and where He would be born, but also how He would die and that He would rise again.

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There simply is no logical way to explain the fulfilled prophecies in the Bible other than citing divine origin.

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There is no other religious book with the amount of detailed predictive prophecy the Bible contains.

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A third internal evidence of the divine origin of the Bible is its unique authority and power.

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While this evidence is more subjective than the first two, it is no less a powerful testimony that the

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Bible is God's word. The Bible's authority is unlike that of any other book ever written.

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This power is seen in the way countless lives have been supernaturally transformed. Drug addicts have been cured by it, homosexuals set free by it, derelicts and deadbeats transformed by it, hardened criminals reformed by it, sinners rebuked by it, and hate turned to love by it.

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The Bible does possess a dynamic and transforming power that is only possible because it is truly

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God's word. External Evidence that the Bible is God's Word There are also external evidences that indicate the

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Bible is truly the word of God. One is the historicity of the Bible. Because the

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Bible details historical events, its accuracy is subject to verification like any other historical document.

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Through archaeological evidence and extra -biblical writings, the historical accounts of the

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Bible proved time and again to be accurate and true. In fact, all the archaeological and manuscript evidence supporting the

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Bible makes it the best documented book from the ancient world. That the

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Bible accurately records historically verifiable events helps substantiate its claim to be the very word of God and supports trust concerning other matters the

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Bible addresses. Another external evidence that the Bible is truly God's word is the integrity of its human authors.

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In studying the lives of the authors of Scripture, we find them to be honest and sincere. The fact that they were willing to die, often excruciating deaths for what they believed, testifies that these men truly believed

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God had spoken to them. The men who wrote the New Testament, and many hundreds of other believers, knew the truth of their message because they had spent time with Jesus Christ after He had risen from the dead.

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Seeing the risen Christ had a tremendous impact on them. They went from hiding in fear to being willing to die for the message

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God had revealed to them. Their lives and deaths testify to the fact that the Bible truly is

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God's word. Another external evidence that the Bible is truly God's word is the indestructibility of the

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Bible. The Bible has suffered more vicious attacks and attempts to destroy it than any other book in history.

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From early Roman emperors like Diocletian, through communist dictators, and on to modern day atheists, the

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Bible has withstood a constant onslaught from detractors, yet it endures and is still today the most widely published book in the world.

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Throughout history, skeptics have regarded the Bible as mythological, but archeology has confirmed it as historical.

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Opponents have attacked its teaching as primitive and outdated, but its moral and legal concepts have had a positive influence on societies throughout the world.

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It continues to be attacked by pseudoscience, psychology, and political movements, yet it remains just as true and relevant today as it was when it was first written.

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This should not surprise us. After all, Jesus said heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

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The Bible, unique among books, has transformed countless lives and swayed whole cultures.

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After looking at the evidence, one can say without a doubt that God has spoken, and that yes, the

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Bible is truly God's word. Got questions? The Bible has answers, and we'll help you find them.