WHY REGARD THE BIBLE AS GOD’S WORDS

 

There are many reasons that we regard the Bible is the Words of God:

1. Personal Experience: We have found it to be transformational (even working miraculously in our lives) and its wisdom to be a supreme guide. Besides, the Holy Spirit has taken hold to open our eyes to His Scriptures.

2. Uplifted Nations: Why had the West become great in the eyes of the World? Only one word is enough of an explanation—Jesus! Even as the Christian West has been rejecting their Christian traditions, their institutions and welfare continue to point to God as their benefactor.

3. Miracles of the Bible: Substantiated by even non-Biblical sources. Miracles are also the underpinning of the Gospel narratives. Consequently, without miracles the story line falls apart

4. Fulfilled Prophecies: About the Messiah, Israel, and the world.

5. Internal Consistency: On a deep level, there is harmony throughout despite having been written by many authors across many cultures and time periods. This points to a single designer with a coherent plan.

6. External Consistency: The Bible coheres with external and accepted knowledge like that of archeology, history, psychology, and science. How could this be possible for a book written over two millennium! Ordinarily, we shouldn’t expect that such an ancient book could provide up an accurate roadmap for our lives in the same way that a buggy whip might enable us to drive a Lexis

7. Consistent Biblical Acknowledgment by its authors that they had been inspired by the Holy Spirit.

8. The Non-Human Nature of the Bible: It criticizes all that we humans find praiseworthy, even the Apostles and the Israelites, while it lauds what we might not find praiseworthy like suffering, neediness, and the broken-hearted.

Each one of these points requires extensive elaboration.