The bible is the divine word of God from God Himself written through people
2 tim 3:16 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[b] may be complete, equipped for every good work.
This is done through the inspiration of the holy spirit, but what does this practically mean and how can I understand it from a secular worldview?
The bible is a reliable historical document that was written by eyewitnesses during the lifetimes of other eyewitnesses in reference to the fulfillment of specific prophecies claiming the divinity of the events that occurred.
The bible has not been translated thousands of times. We have access to COMPLETE New testaments from as early as the 4th Century AD, so when people translate a new version of the bible what they do is go back to the original texts from the 4th century or earlier, and not to the most recent english translation (this is a common misunderstanding for people who do not follow Jesus)
The early church fathers referenced the epistles in their own works from the first century AD, and through their commentaries we can piece together 95% of the whole new testament.
Do you believe that Homer wrote the iliad and the odyssey? The earliest copies of these works were uncovered over 1000 years after homers death. Do you believe in the battle of Troy? Homer wrote that story over 600 years after the battle even happened. How could we consider this historical evidence for the existence of Homer or the battle of TROY, but not consider Christ as historically reliable when authors began writing about him within 30 years of his life?
Flavius Josephus (JEWISH historian even references Jesus
4 gospels by 4 authors telling the same story
Matthew, mark, luke and john all friends and disciples of jesus but they never knew what the other was going to write yet all the gospels tell the same stories of jesus and his life.
65000 cross references from 44 different authors
Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies from the Old Testament (48 Specific messianic prophecies). Mathmetician Peter stoner concluded that the odds of this were .000(add154 more zeroes) then a 1.
So we are confident that the Scriptures are indeed God’s inspired word because of the Historical reliability and the fulfillment of the scriptures themselves which mathematically is next to impossible unless Jesus was the true Messiah. And if Jesus is the Messiah then we believe his words to be true, and if his words are true then the whole bible must be true.
