Please don't miss understand this question, but I would like to know how did you Quester arrived or know that the Bible is the Word of God?
Please don't miss understand this question, but I would like to know how did you Quester arrived or know that the Bible is the Word of God ?
I studied ... I looked at the evidence ... I prayed ... I tested the Bible's claims ... I asked the Lord to guide me.
What the Lord has shown to me is given below ...
The Bible is a collection of the writings of over 40 different individuals across the span of some 5000 years.
Ancient copies of the original writings still exist (and can be examined today) ... and millions can see and read the actual Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts ... to see that any translation is accurate.
The compilation of the Bible is consistently evidenced in the world's history. It came forth from a people (the Jews) known in history ... and from places (Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, etc.) where we can still visit today.
Over the course of the more than 1500 years of the Bible's existence, not one person or group of persons has been successful in proving any part of the Bible to be untrue. Most strikingly, the fulfillment of the Bible's prophecy which has occurred has left scholars, wishing to disprove the Bible, with only the argument that the prophecies could not have been authored prior to the events pprophesied because of the complete and remarkable accuracy of the prophecy. In other words, these writings either have to be accurate prophecy or a complete fraud.
For me, ... the Bible paints an accurate picture of the world.
Men and women are born into sin.
Noone has to teach a child to lie.
In fact, we have to teach our children to do good, rather than evil.
More than anything, however, ... the Bible gives us the message that God loves us so much, that He was willing to allow His Only Begotten Son to taste death ... that we might come back home to Him.
I have lived with the Lord in my life and in my heart for almost 40 years, ... and He has been to me just what He said He would be ... from the very pages of the Bible.