tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4077807820981660192.post2833060830337869744..comments2023-06-03T05:02:22.412-04:00Comments on ~White Rose Valley~: How Can We Know That The Bible Is True?Catherine WhiteRose ~*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/10585824884935559410noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4077807820981660192.post-21800986317838924062010-02-02T17:11:02.027-05:002010-02-02T17:11:02.027-05:00Thank you so much for posting this article! I know...Thank you so much for posting this article! I know the Bible is true, but sometimes I'm not really sure why, and I wonder what I would say if someone asked me. Now I know! God has gifted you with being able to communicate difficult things in a way that makes them so easy to understand. <br /><br />Princess Melody***Princess Melodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09377847545314693726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4077807820981660192.post-2565937076869628552010-01-30T17:37:43.463-05:002010-01-30T17:37:43.463-05:00Anonymous,
First I'd like to say that techni...Anonymous,<br /><br /><br />First I'd like to say that technically, nothing in the past can be "proven". I can't prove what I ate for breakfast this morning, because that is in the past and is not repeatable. What I presented to you was a few good reasons why we can trust the Bible. No one can prove the Bible, but neither can they prove a writing like Homer's Iliad, yet they still believe it because it has relatively reliable factors. The Bible far surpasses the reliability of the Iliad and yet many people still question it (I'm talking generally here, not specifically to you).<br /><br /><br />In my post I wrote about a couple of issues in a process called "textual criticism" which is a study of historical documents and how we can know that they are reliable. The Bible has been tested this way and in order to have "passed" it has been subjected to the same tests that historians use to determine the accuracy of any ancient writing. (One question you might ask your teacher is whether or not he has studied this science.) At least these seven questions are asked:<br /><br /><br />1) Do we have early testimony(referring to how close the earliest copy we have is to the original)?<br /><br />2) Do we have eyewitness testimony( Did the writers actually see the events?)?<br /><br />3) Do we have testimony from multiple, independent, eyewitness sources( Did more than one person witness and record the event?)?<br /><br />4) Are the eyewitnesses trustworthy( of good character)?<br /><br />5) Do we have corroborating(non-contradictory) evidence from archeology or other writers?<br /><br />6) Do we have any enemy attestation(Did opponents of the eyewitnesses agree about the event?)?<br /><br />7) Does the testimony contain events or details that are embarrassing to the authors( Why would the Biblical authors include that Peter denied Jesus, that women (not men) were the first to see Jesus, that the apostles didn't always understand Jesus, that Peter was called "Satan" by Jesus?)?<br /><br />If you'd like to go a route other than textual criticism we can talk about the authors. There were actually more than forty different men who wrote down what the Spirit of God prompted them to write. It would seem as though because of there were so many the different books they wrote wouldn't fit together, and yet they do. The four gospels were all written by different men, and yet all their accounts are similar and portray the same occurrences. What are the odds that you could get together a group of men and tell them to all write a story and have it come out with the same characters, the same plot, the same settings, etc.?<br /> Also, take a look at all the prophecies that have been foretold and you'll see that all the ones that were supposed to have come true have, and the ones that haven't happened yet we're still waiting on. In fact, in regards to Jesus, both Isaiah and Micah made prophecies about his birth. Isaiah said that He would be born of a virgin, and Micah mentioned that the event would take place in Bethlehem. Two different authors and yet even if they had conspired to create such an occurrence(they both prophesied about 750 years before Christ), the event still actually took place.<br />(A little side note: The Bible was written over about a 1500 year span.)<br /> <br />I hope this has been helpful in answering your questions. Please feel free to ask more; we(I) don't want you to be confused. <br /><br /> In Christ,<br /><br />~Princess Gloria<br /><br />P.S. If you'd like to do some research and reading, you can check out "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist" by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. It seems to be pretty helpful dealing with issues like these.Princess Gloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06835480735095405641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4077807820981660192.post-12893712318581374472010-01-29T15:44:25.487-05:002010-01-29T15:44:25.487-05:00Sorry to be skeptical, but numbers alone don't...Sorry to be skeptical, but numbers alone don't prove that the Bible is true. <br />It only means that that many people thought it worth copying. My teacher says it's just a book of stories. Is there anyway you can prove the stories in the Bible are true?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com