Subject: How do we know the Bible is the truth? |
Bible Note: 2 Peter 1:19 So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. "That is, made more sure by fulfilment in part. Fulfilled prophecy is a proof of inspiration because the Scripture predictions of future events were uttered so long before the events transpired that no merely human sagacity or foresight could have anticipated them, and these predictions are so detailed, minute, and specific, as to exclude the possibility that they were mere fortunate guesses. "Hundreds of predictions concerning Israel, the land of Canaan, Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, and numerous personages--so ancient, so singular, so seemingly improbable, as well as so detailed and definite that no mortal could have anticipated them--have been fulfilled by the elements, and by men who were ignorant of them, or who utterly disbelieved them, or who struggled with frantic desperation to avoid their fulfilment. "It is certain, therefore, that the Scriptures which contain them are inspired. "Prophecy came not in olden time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" 2 Peter 1:21." (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/) Josh McDowell has been cited in this thread as the author of a book that includes proof of the inspiration of the Bible. As McDowell said on the radio only recently, "The Bible is the inspired Word of God because it says it is" is not the right answer. You'll have to come up with something better than that." Its like circular logic: Well, I believe it is divinely inspired because it says so. Why do you believe that? Because its in the Bible? How do you know the Bible is the inspired Word of God? Because it says so. See what I'm getting at? The above answer is arrived at by very poor logic. |