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1 | Inspiration and Authority of the Bible | Ps 119:105 | Kevin_Raven | 181724 | ||
Concerning the Divine inspiration of the Bible, I have a few questions. First of all, I apologize if you have answered this or a similar question elsewhere, I used the search feature and came up with some questions in the same vein as this one, but I still would greatly appreciate a specific answer for my situation. I started thinking about where, as a Christian, I ultimately derive my idea of truth from, and I realized that in most discussions with other believers, everything goes back to the inerrancy and divine inspiration of scripture. However, it seems like a bit of a circular argument to me. People often support inspiration of scripture with verses like 2 Timothy 3:16. Of course, this verse falls under the category of scripture, and is therefore making a statement about it's own truth or falsehood. Now ultimately, I understand that true belief requires a step of faith at some point, so I won't ask for a perfect external proof of the truth of scripture. I *know* in the sense that I am personally convinced that Jesus Christ is God, that he came to the earth to die for my sins, and that through him I am forgiven and saved from slavery to sin. I *know* this through what he has done in my life, independent of the bible, just like the early Christians who had no canonical new testament to tell them this. Now, when I went back and read up on the history of what we today call 'The Bible.' It wasn't fully canonized until much after the life of Christ. Let's say for a moment that I'm a really tough skeptic and I don't want to believe anything that I don't have good reason to. I've already said that I'm personally convinced of my belief in Jesus Christ. But now I'm being asked to believe that a bunch of men, over the course of a few centuries, through voting, councils, and who knows what else, finally decided on what God has said is infallible truth? I would have a hard time agreeing to believe that, which is ultimately given to me on the authority of man's word. The bible says that the bible is true; man says the bible is true. I believe in Jesus. I haven't found any direct words of Jesus that tell me the bible is true, therefore what grounds to I have to believe it is true? One final postscript, I don't intend to break the rules of this forum, which say that postings shouldn't be opposed to the authority of the bible; I've just been really troubled by these questions the past few days as someone who has spent his entire life believing in this, it feels as if the wind was knocked out of me, in more ways than one, when I started thinking about this. |
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