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Can the Bible be Trusted?

Is the Bible real, authentic, trustworthy, and inspired by God, or just cultural imagination?

Here are some insights into the authenticity and truthfulness of the Bible.

The Biblical manuscripts are trusted, reliable, and accurately translated from the earliest found documents.
  • The Bible has the most surviving copies of any ancient document.
    Scholars have extensively scrutinized these books for variations, corruption, and truths.
    The fact is that the biblical authors lived hundreds and thousands of years apart from each other.
    It would be impossible for them to collaborate with each other to create a cultural belief system or the largest scam known to man.
    These authors have repeated the same content in their writings throughout history, even though they never knew each other.

 

  • ​Over half of the prophecies in the Bible have come true, according to estimates.
    Such evidence tends to give some substance to the idea that the original manuscripts must have been written with divine inspiration by the authors.
    Prophecies of the Bible continue to come true, with the most recent being the war in Israel, prophesied right to the month it started.
    As a side note, the prophetic predictions of the future do not look good for humanity.
     

There are no motives that merit distrust of the testimonies of the authors.

  • There are many biblical stories of how God kills, saves, forgives, loves, and shows God's honest reactions.
    Why would anyone want to give testimony to all these stories unless they thought they were true?
    There is no evidence of monetary, economic, or other gain or reason for Bible stories such as Moses murdering an Egyptian.

 

  • For example:
    What would be the point of stories of a talking donkey, a big fish transport, and a woman who turns into a pillar of salt if they were not biblical and true?
    Where would there be any gain?
    Why would anyone write such absurd stories unless they believed they happened?
    I bet the authors of these stories were mocked by the secular world as crazy when they wrote them.
    Why would anyone subject themselves to such ridicule unless they had seen or had faith that these biblical stories happened and are factual?
     

  • The thing to remember is when and by whom these stories were written.
    A not-so-highly-advanced culture wrote the Bible about a highly advanced creator and his angels.

    Is it just a matter of interpretation and understanding?
    Could a culture lacking a technological background interpret a submarine as a large fish?
    Is it possible that Elijah took a ride on some sort of aircraft with a fiery exhaust and not a chariot?

    Think about it!
    Could non-technical people explain or understand technology that they couldn't explain?
    Did a woman truly transform into an inanimate pillar of salt?
    Perhaps she was hit with radiation dust from a nuclear blast and ended up exactly like the Japanese that America bombed in World War II.

    The Bible chronicles the healing of sick people.
    Perhaps the medical knowledge of supreme beings such as God, Jesus, and angels was better than the medical technology of today.

    Moses parted the sea.
    Moses was highly educated, having been brought up and raised by Pharaoh's court.
    He was a skilled fighter and adept in the skills of leadership and combat.
    The area all around Egypt would be very familiar to him as he traveled throughout the country performing duties for the pharaoh.
    He would know where there were watering holes, hills, valleys, places of heavy or light winds, and the water levels in the nearby seas.
    Perhaps he knew of the perfect place to cross the Red Sea during a low tide when the wind was strong enough to push the water back.

    Here is another way to look at the stories in the Bible if you look at them scientifically.
    It doesn't take a leap of faith to see that the Bible stories really happened when looked at scientifically.
    Scientists are constantly coming up with evidence and theories that can substantiate the Bible stories.
    Scientists can explain the 10 plagues of the Nile that occurred in Egypt.
    Read about it.
     

What did the philosopher Comte state?
  • Comte stated, "It is common that we only believe what we can personally observe. However, it is impossible to live without faith."

  • Everyone in his daily life constantly believes and acts upon facts not seen or explainable.
    One must decide what's real for oneself based on faith, observation, historical writings, or what one's family or best friends tell them.
    ​​

    That's the norm. "I didn't see a man walk on the moon, so it didn't happen."
    This is what some people say 50 years after it happened.
    The conspiracy nonsense would lead one to believe it was a Hollywood production.
    Luckily, this website author doesn't have that problem, as he participated in the moon landings.

  • If we don't see it, it's hard to believe. It's our nature.

  • Well, I experienced it, so I believe it.
    So now I'm telling you about it.
    Therefore, you should accept the story of my experience.

    The same should be true of the Bible.
    Someone experienced it, believed it, and told us about it, and now we should believe it.

     

Are scientists always right, and can they be trusted?
  • ​The "mainstream" scientific community does not like their theories challenged.
    The discovery that the Earth is round and the Sun is the center of the solar system was difficult for early scientists to accept.
    The Scientific Social Club expelled Kepler and Copernicus for their belief in that theory.
    Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents of Earth are moving.
    Between 1912 and 1929, he published evidence based on fossil and rock samples to support his theory.

    During his lifetime, mainstream scientists absolutely rejected his theory of continental drift.
    It wasn't until this author's teenage years (1960s) that his theory finally became part of mainstream science.

 

  • Some unbelievers say, "If God creates perfection, why is the Earth tilted on its axis, and why isn't there one landmass?"
    The problem most of us humans have, as noted by Comte, is that we must see to believe.
    How do we know God didn't deliberately create the earth with a tilted axis?

    Maybe it happened after God's creation due to some astronomical space event.
    A massive meteor did smash into the earth in the Gulf of Mexico, for instance.
    The earth experienced a profound shake during Noah's flood.
    The moon is out there tugging and pulling, which scientists (God bless them) think arrived after the creation of Earth.
     

  • Scientists have revealed facts and evidence that demonstrate Earth's perfect axis.
    One theory is that the moon was created or placed in orbit after the Earth's creation, which caused the tilt.
    Another theory is that a large chunk of space junk hit Earth in the Gulf and knocked it off its axis.
    The collision shook the earth's mantle so hard that it separated the landmass into two pieces.
    Photographs of Earth and any globe you might look at from space depict this phenomenon.
    The meteor hit the Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding Mexican landmass.
    The impact from the meteor could also have been severe enough to cause a worldwide flood.
    Furthermore, the ashes that spewed into the air could have killed the dinosaurs and most all mammals on Earth.
    This theory receives support from non-biblical writers, physical evidence, and uncovered discoveries.
    This lends credence to the authenticity of the Bible's creation theory, which posits a perfect earth subsequently altered by external forces.

 

  • We can speculate on several theories.
    Think about this one.
    God could have sent the asteroid deliberately to hit the Earth to cause the world's extinction.
    He could have tossed it at Earth as if aiming for a target.
    It is not far-fetched to believe either of these cases.

    God would have warned Noah and told him to build the boat and button up the hatches to spare humanity and the animals from the incoming asteroid's devastation.

     

Yes, the scientists are not always right, just self-righteous.
No, we cannot always trust the scientists.

The truth is that self-righteous, non-believing scientists will eventually recognize the truth that contradicts their beliefs.

The truths that support the Bible's creation and events will also be like this.
 

Noah had instructions to build an ark.
  • Noah had foreknowledge or divine inspiration to get ready for this event.
    An asteroid collision could have shaken Earth so much that there were earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcano eruptions.
    The mantle shifted and caused the seas to have a tsunami that covered the Earth.
    As the mantle moved, it caused mountains to rise and led to the continent dividing into separate pieces.
    Evidence is there to support this theory.
    Research the 120-mile-diameter Chicxulub Crater in Mexico.
    This theory explains a lot.
    Please turn on the Fire Stick and search for the documentaries.
    Do an online search for archeological findings and the NASA files.

     

  • Again, one might ask, did God see the asteroid coming and warn Noah, or did God deliberately send it, as the Bible suggests?
     

  • The Bible indicates that, initially, there was one body of water and one body of land.

    Genesis 1:9-10.
    God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.
    And it was so. God called the dry ground land." (singular).

     

  • The point is, if things on the surface of our thinking don't seem believable, it doesn't mean they are not plausible.

    It doesn't mean that they do not exist.
    It's just possible that we don't understand them.
    It took quite a while before doctors believed that germs entered open wounds and caused infections.

     

  • Many things were ridiculous and unbelievable until they were understood, discovered, or performed.
    Many things in the world once defied belief.
    Things such as walking on the moon, being inside a machine that flies through the sky, electric lights, boats that go underwater, and cell phones were once unimaginable.
    How about a box with moving pictures displayed on it?
    The ancients of Earth would not understand these, and if they saw them, how could they explain them, and how could we accept them today?
    Of course, now that we see and experience it today, we believe it.
    The ancients couldn't grasp the super technology of their time, and we seem to have the same issue.

  • I think you should be getting the point by now.

 

  • As humans, we lack faith in what others tell us; we have to experience it for ourselves.
    More to the point, we lack faith in the ancient manuscripts because they weren't written in our time.
    This does not mean that the events did not happen or are not real, true, or authentic.
    Someone wrote about them and believed in what they wrote, so we should consider that the stories are real.
     

Why is it so hard to believe in Bible miracles?

Did Moses part the sea?

  • Someone witnessed it and wrote about it.

  • Why shouldn't we believe what they wrote?

  • Should we doubt that the Bible is authentic and true just because we weren't there to witness the events?

  • Are we like the mainstream scientists and ignore the Bible events just because we don't understand them?

    The problem, of course, is that modern-day people were not there to see Moses part the sea.
    Therefore, it cannot be believed that it happened.
    We have no rational explanation of how it could happen, so therefore we think it didn't happen.

     

  • It's just like those who didn't see the landing on the moon.
    Many believe it didn't happen.
    Some believe it was a Hollywood production to fool the public.
    I (this author) know it happened. I participated in it.
    It happened. I participated. I talked about it. I wrote about it. I told people about it. It's not a fabrication or lie.

    Why don't they believe?
    Because they didn't experience it, see it, or were involved in it themselves.
    Also, conspiracists with a private agenda like to refute what they don't believe and can develop convincing theories.
    The same goes for the Bible.

    But people still don't think it happened and believe my story is unbelievable, just like the stories in the Bible.
    Unfortunately, there are many things we don't understand or don't see.
    Therefore, we are picky and refuse to believe.
     

Jesus was a winemaker.

  • Turning water into wine? You have to be kidding me!
    That's a common reaction.
     

  • So why couldn't water be turned into wine?
    No one in modern times has figured out how to do it yet.
    Therefore, we don't believe it yet.

    Someone witnessed wine made from water centuries ago and wrote about it.
    That's why I believe it. I don't know how Jesus did it. But I believe it. Is that so hard?


    Is the food replicator on the Star Trek series really that hard to believe, that in the future it would be possible?
    Flying in the sky like the birds was once thought to be impossible. Look at us now.
     

What about the authors who wrote the Bible?

The New Testament was written by disciples who personally knew Jesus. They lived the experience.

  • Paul believed that “all Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.”
  • Paul hunted down, persecuted, arrested, and often murdered the disciples of Jesus before his conversion.

  • Paul had a divine intervention with a heavenly spirit and converted. It is believed that the spirit was Jesus.

    He became one of the most faithful followers of Jesus.

    Jesus changed his name from Saul to Paul.

  • Why did Paul's life have a dramatic change? Because he knew that Jesus was the real deal.

  • Is it reasonable to believe that Saul suddenly joined some "elaborate hoax" and "big landing on the moon conspiracy" of lies and deception after despising the Christian movement?

  • Hardly!
     

Most of the New Testament authors were, in some way, cruelly executed.
  • Why?
    Why would the disciples and apostles of Christ stick to their beliefs if they were not true?
    Why would they
     deliberately face persecution, ridicule, and certain death?
    Why allow themselves to suffer such gruesome deaths?
     

  • The religious authorities stoned Stephen to death.

  • Peter was crucified upside down.

  • Andrew was tied to an "X" instead of nailed to a "T" cross for that "extra bit" of painful punishment.

  • John the Baptist was beheaded.

  • The apostles stuck to their belief in Jesus to the end.
    Why?
     

  • There is a long list of martyrs who held to the truth.

  • These disciples must have believed in God or witnessed the testimony of Jesus.

  • The apostles witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus and His rising from the dead.

  • Is it reasonable to assume that dozens of these men conspired and made up such unbelievable stories? 
    I think not!
    They would not have gotten involved in a biblical conspiracy just to be persecuted and executed.
    It does not make sense for the disciples to support a 2,000-year-old tall tale.

     

  • Is this how people behave in real life?

    Do people give up their lives for a lie?
    Any interrogator will tell you they won't.
    This is virtually against human nature.
    People will be quiet to save themselves unless pressured.
    After enough pressure, they talk their heads off.
    History has shown that under the stress of interrogation, eventually the truth will come out, even from the toughest resistor.

     

  • These early "Christians" stuck to their beliefs until their dying breath.

    Why?
    Because they believed in the truth.
     

Other non-Biblical authoritative and respected philosophers wrote about Biblical happenings.
  • These early writers have conferred or corroborated information in the Bible.

  • They referred to events, places, and characters in the Bible.

  • These writers are well-known, respected, and popular historians, such as Aristotle, Plato, Homer, and Socrates.

  • In the mix are secular writers like Pliny, Herodotus, Josephus, Flavius, Caesar, Euripides, and Tacitus.

  • There were Christian writers such as Augustine, Julian, Origen, Isidore, Quodvultdeus, Evagrius, Justin, Cyprian, Paulinus, Tertullian, Clement, and Julianus Pomerius, to name a few more.

  • All these famous, reliable, and trustworthy writers have authenticated many of the Bible stories and the existence of Jesus.
     

  • Archaeologists continue to discover biblical evidence of items, places, and names found in the Bible.

    It would fill a tome to describe everything found in the past 100 years.
     

Here are a few discoveries made recently:
Places discovered that validate the contents and truth of the Bible. 
  • An elaborate building has been discovered next to the temple.
    It is estimated that the building was shaken to pieces around 33 AD by an earthquake.
    The Bible references this.
    Does this happen to be a coincidence?

    Maybe it is; maybe it's not.

  • The walls of Jericho have been excavated.

  • Kiriath Yearim has been discovered, which the Bible mentions several times.
    This is the place where the Ark of the Covenant was held. (1 Samuel 7:1–2).

  • The synagogue at Magdala, home of Mary Magdalene, has been found.

  • At least a dozen early Jewish temples have been uncovered.

  • A palace belonging to King Manasseh, ruler in 2 Kings 21, is believed to have been found.

  • King Ahab's royal palace has been located in the Middle East.

  • The ancient location of the Jewish Tabernacle, Tel Shiloh, and the Holy Ark has been discovered.

  • The tomb of the prophet Jonah has been found in the Iraqi city of Mosul (aka Nineveh).

  • Herod's living quarters and seaside complex have been discovered.

  • Genesis 36:31 states that there were kings in Edom before any Israelite king.
    Excavations have proven this.

  • The list goes on.

Things found that prove the truth, validity, and authority of the Bible.
  • ​Crucified bodies have been discovered.
    This gives proof that crucifixions were common in those days.

  • Buried chariots in the Red Sea have been located where Moses possibly took the Israelites across.

  • Ancient scrolls repeat many of the Bible stories.

  • A jug has been found with inscriptions of Gideon. Yes, that's real.

  • A clay seal of a roaring lion dating to the reign of Jeroboam II, who ruled from 788 to 748 BC, has been found.

  • Royal seals have been found of Adonijah, Natan-Malech, and the governor of Jerusalem.
    2 Kings 23:8 mentions them.

  • A nameplate for Pontius Pilate has been found. The plate is like one that is placed on a door or desk.

  • A monument has been discovered in a farmer's field that has the names of people from the Bible inscribed.

  • Archeologists have uncovered a pillar with an inscription about Jerusalem.

  • Archeologists have found Semitic writing on a limestone created during the time of Moses.
    This indicates that an alphabet and writing occurred during the time of Moses.
    There were no writings before this, and it would verify that Moses could have written the five books.

  • Archeologists have uncovered a mosaic depicting Jesus feeding the multitude with fish and bread.
    This mosaic was found just south of where this event occurred.

  • DNA extracted from skeletons excavated from burials at the Philistine city of Ashkelon in modern-day Israel showed European ancestry.
    Thus proving that the Jewish and Philistine communities intermingled as described in the Bible.

  • Many skeletons of giants have been found. The Bible mentions giants.

  • Archaeologists confirm the existence of many people in the Bible.
    biblicalarchaeology.org

  • Ten crucial biblical archaeological discoveries.
    crossway.org

  • Six finds prove the Bible.
    beliefnet.com

  • Is archaeology proving the Bible?
    newsweek.com

  • Read about Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021.
    christianitytoday.com

  • There are so many biblical archaeological discoveries; one must Google for themselves.
    Discover that the Bible's contents are real.
    The evidence is available for those who seek it.

     

Why do we trust copies of non-biblical books but not Bible books?

  • The list of biblical findings is endless.
    One must search the Internet for "proof of the Bible" for oneself.
    There is a lot of information available.

    Just because a book is old or a copy does not make it less authoritative or believable.
    Several copies of the Book of Daniel and the Book of Isaiah have been found.
    In each case, these copies were written at least 500 years apart.
    This gives credence to the fact that the scripture has had unwavering duplicates without change for half a millennium.

    After years of copying these two scriptures over and over, copies written 500 years apart are identical.
    This proves that the Bible has been accurately passed down from generation to generation.
    The scribes were meticulous when making copies of the Holy Scriptures and ensuring their accuracy.
     

Is there any reason to not believe that the Bible is authentic?

  • Researchers found over 5,000 copies of ancient Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.

  • More than ten thousand copies of Bible scripture were written in other ancient languages.

  • All of these copies agree with each other in content.

  • Fragments of these copies are dated as early as thirty years after the originals.

  • All these scriptures have been proven to be authentic replicas of each other.

  • The question stands: why should there be doubt about the Bible's truth, authenticity, accuracy, and legitimacy?

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