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NASB | Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ. |
Bible Question:
Title: How can we know if Bible was not fabricated? I am very sorry for asking this question; but I have been seeking God and the meaning of life for years, and I don't want to simply have a blind-faith. My question is how we know Bible was really God’s words. One argument to support Bible’s infallibility is that Bible was written by many different authors at different times while amazingly it is consistent. However, if you read the books of Nazy or Socialism, they are also amazingly consistent. The reason is that the latter authors have read all the prior books and thus can develop new books that are consistent. Or books that were inconsistent could not be published or included in the collection. I don’t mean to offend Christians; but how can we know that Bible, as a collection by a books written by humans (not Jesus or God himself), was not created in this way. Once again, I like many teachings in Bible, such as the Golden Rule etc. But I really want to address this concern so that I can convince myself to develop stronger faith in Bible and Christian. |
Bible Answer: Billy 2010, You said, "I don't want to simply have a blind-faith." Sir, I would like to commend very highly to you "blind faith." Hebrews 11 teaches us that faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. And it is by this blind faith that abraham believed God that his descendants would be as many as the stars in heaven. It was by this blind faith that he was willing to risk offering up the one son of promise he had through whom God had told him this multitude would come, believing that if God let him die then God was able even to ressurrect him. Blind faith is the means by which men are saved. Read 2 corinthians 4:1-6. Men are not set free from being blinded by clever arguements, but by God granting them to perceive the truth of who Christ is. Romans 10:17 claims that faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the word of Christ! The parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16 ends with the rich man in hades crying out for lazarus to go warn his brothers of this place. He was told that they have Moses and the Prophets (the scriptures), the rich man responded that if only one rose from the dead then his brothers would believe!. The response to him was that if he will not believe those said scriptures, then he would not even believe should somebody rise from the dead to warn them. And I tell you, sir, should you not believe scripture for what it says with this "blind faith," then you will certainly not believe regardless what defenses we give you. That being said there are many apologetic sites that could give you "defenses" of scripture's inspiration. A couple of things that strongly argue in its favor are archeology and prophecy. Many prophecies in scripture were fulfilled with such obvious precision that it speaks of scripture's inspiration. Time and again also, the world has accused the scriptures of false history details, the book of luke was once laughed at for references to people and places that we had no record of existing. Yet christians took it with, "blind faith." Now Luke is marveled at as historically accurate to a remarkable degree. Why? Because archaeological digs kept proving Luke right time and again. There are other things to argue for it, but you can always find a way not to believe it. Seek out this blind faith you refer to. It is the good stuff. It is the saving stuff. It is the faith that can ward off all the attacks of Satan (Eph 5.) In Christ, Beja |