Verify something the Bible doesn’t say? NO. Anything has to agree with scripture and not contradict scripture. If you are thinking of something like the bodily assumption of Mary it contradicts scripture. We can use anything we want to help understand scripture but it cannot contradict scripture.
Where do you think the statement of Paul came from and what it meant when he said “they searched the scriptures daily to see if these things be true”?
****If you are thinking of something like the bodily assumption of Mary it contradicts scripture.****
Well, see that’s where you are wrong, because the Bible certainly says that at least two people were taken up to heaven.
The point is that, even though the Bible doesn’t say who its human authors are, we can gain insights from what we know in the Bible and what others who have studied it say to come to a reasonable, if unverifiable conclusion.
I said that one must take the Bible on faith and tradition.
Though we may all assert that the Holy Spirit has moved us to accept the Bible as writings inspired by God, He hasn’t opened the heavens and declared it so for us.
Therefore, we take that it is inspired and of God, on faith.
And, since the Bible does not give a list of what it should contain, we accept through tradition which books are divinely inspired.