Is the Bible From God or From Men?

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17

This article marks the second lesson in our series “Evidence that Demands a Verdict.”  Our last article examined the evidence for God from the perspectives of earth’s origin, design, irreducible complexity and the storage capacity of our DNA!  Now we’ll examine the validity of the Bible as the Word of God through historical, prophetic, and scientific proofs so we can discover the “living proof” by applying the Bible to our lives!  John 7:17

In Acts 26:22-29, Paul says his teachings are “true and reasonable.” Paul appeals to King Agrippa’s belief in the Prophets – the Old Testament was accepted as truth.  There are 263 Old Testaments quotes contained in the New Testament!  In 1 Timothy 5:18, Paul quotes Luke 10:7 as “Scripture.” In 2 Peter 3:15-16, Peter refers to Paul’s writings as Scripture, “wisdom God gave him.” So we can see from these passages that the Old Testament, the Gospels, and Paul’s writing were all seen as “inspired by God” scriptures.

The following passages were all quoted by Jesus as true stories, not parables:  Matthew 12:39-40 (Jonah and the fish); Matthew 19:4 (Creation story); Luke 4:27 (Naaman’s leprosy healed).  We must accept the entire Bible as inspired or else we must throw it all out.  We cannot pick and choose what we believe to be true or false or else we destroy the purpose of the Scriptures which is to use them as a standard for all.

The Bible contains 66 books (39 OT, 27 NT), 40 authors, 3 different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Hebrew), 3 different continents (Africa, Asia, Europe), over 1500 years!  Let’s jump in and examine the proof of its claims!
Read more »