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How do we know if it’s false?
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” For example, the vision recorded in Daniel 7 correctly predicted the rise of the Medo-Persian Empire, the Greek Empire under Alexander the Great, and the Roman Empire. “
Daniel was written after Alexander was dead.
Because the Bible is one of the most investigated documents in the history of man.
And has desperately been trying to be proven false for 2000 years?
With amazing technologies undreamed of since then?
What other than the truth could hold up?
Yeah but few people know there were 15 commandments originally!! (movie reference, not blasphemy)
Actually, all joking aside, there’s like 600 plus, one of my Jewish friends told me.
Stick with the NKJV. NIV is too far afield. I used to own one.
NASB is a more accurate version, btw.
If you want “The Word,” get a KJV and cross out all of the italicised words.
That is as close as you can get without spending a decade studying Hebrew. (all of Yehova’s word was delivered in the hebrew language as Paul plainly stated in his letter to the Romans.)
The word is now available in the original Hebrew for all but a few NT letters.
God reveals his power in two ways:
1) Miracles which reveal the power of God.
2) Prophecies which reveal the foreknowledge of God.
Reasons we know scripture is true:
1) The message itself. To Love God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself and to even love your enemies is a higher calling than other religions that will tell you do no harm. The bible calls us to an active love.
2) The message itself. Most religions consider their God or gods to be holy and pure. But the Bible tells us to "Be Holy for I am holy" and "Be Perfect for I am Perfect". The BIble tells us that God is going to judge us by his own standard which is holy perfection.
Individually, God reveals himself to us when we
It takes an act of faith to believe the entire bible is the literal word of God... There is much of it that sounds too far fetched to be true, like Noah’s ark and the flood covering the whole earth... or Jonah and the whale. I think it stems from us trying to put the greatness of God into simple human understanding and being limited to humans words and especially after the languages were confused. The example I got was that the Hebrew language used I think 5 or 6 different words that would all be translated in English to the same word, Love.
I had a really hard time trying to figure out what the King James version was saying, much less what it meant. I was taught the bible had all the answers man had on how we should live our lives... but I did not know what it was saying. I really did not even pick one up, most of my adult life... and especially after the internet when I could just search for, what does the bible say about “X”
(which is still a good tool, many times you get multiple good verses back to read...)
Last year I found Amir Tsarfati and he kept talking about Ezekiel’s war brewing, so instead of reading the King James version I found an online NIV version and read Ezekiel... I understood what he was saying, so then I decided it was time to read the whole bible.
I got an Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament because I wanted to see the original text translated as it was written, But the NIV is just written in plain English that you don’t need to try to figure out what it is saying...
I found it interesting listening to somebody reading the King James while following along in my NIV and where they read something different, they come back and clarify with exactly what my Bible says in the first place.
A friend of mine calls the NIV the “Nearly Inspired Version.”
I call it the redacted Bible, because it is missing so many verses in the NT.
The translators used a different Greek manuscript than some of the older English translations.
The earlier comment about using a King James and ignoring the italicized words is spot-on. That yields an almost perfect translation from the original languages, albeit with awkward syntax.
Given the rather serious and continuous missteps of the clergy and the organization that protects them, this is a very important question.
Because it is inspired by the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Triune God.
The “myth” of the Hittite Empire was once the favorite reason to discount the historicity of the Bible.
Then the secular, skeptical archaeologists discovered Hattushah, its capital. Oops.
Did they admit they were wrong, and the Bible was right? Did they change their attitude toward the Bible? No. They just moved on to the next best reason.
It is a matter of faith. They have anti-faith, and no amount or pragmatic validation will ever suffice for them.
“How Do We Know the Bible Is True?”
It requires something the writer doesn’t have......faith.
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Because there are over 50 OT prophecies of the birth, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus AND THEY ALL CAME TO PASS...What are the mathematical odds of that??? There were over 500 eyewitnesses to seeing the resurrected Jesus alone...
For $2.99, you can get a kindle version of “The Lexical Interlinear Hebrew/Greek KJV of the Bible. It translates every English word in the Bible, to the Hebrew or Greek meaning (and also spelled out in the Hebrew or Greek alphabet, for those who know how to read the original). It combines the beauty of the kjv, with the accuracy of Strong’s translations, line by line, without footnotes. It’s awesome.
At Bible Hub (online), you can read the KJV, NASB, or HCSB (nearly identical to the NIV), with the Strong’s concordance, as well; or a parallel of those and some other translations, side by side, too, for free.