All sorts of things have been said and written about the Bible, and it can sometimes be hard to sort through it all. So, here’s the question, “What can we know about the Bible? Is it possible to know if it is really from God or not?” Consider just a few things we know about this amazing book.
Amazing Fact #1: The Bible maintains complete unity from beginning to end. Think about this: There were about 40 men who wrote the 66 books of the Bible over a period of about 1,600 years. Can you imagine finding any continuity or agreement in such a document? And yet, that’s exactly what you’ll find, and with masterful precision. The penmen remain united in theme and purpose and content throughout the entirety of the book, without wavering and without contradicting each other. That’s amazing! That’s from God!
Amazing Fact #2: The Bible is completely accurate in all of its details. That’s a bold claim to make, so check it carefully. The Bible is full of historical and geographical information covering millennia, and whenever discoveries have been made from those eras, it has only verified the precision of each of those details. Books produced by mere men have been found to be plagued with mistakes, especially as time passes. But not the Bible! That’s amazing! That’s from God!
Amazing Fact #3: The Bible is filled with predictive prophecies that were fulfilled exactly as predicted. There are hundreds of prophecies that were made hundreds (sometimes thousands) of years before their fulfillment, and these prophecies deal with matters relating to people, places and events that were impossible for the writers to have known about or to have affected the outcome in any way. No human could ever foretell the future like the Bible does! That’s amazing! That’s from God!
Amazing Fact #4: The Bible contains extraordinary scientific foreknowledge. The Bible is not a science textbook, but there are scientific details within it that are astonishing, as related to the fields of astronomy, oceanography, biology, medicine, physics, etc. The penmen could have never known or understood these things, as man just recently “discovered” most of them in the last few centuries. That’s amazing! That’s from God!
Pick up your Bible. This is no ordinary book! While many charges have been leveled against the Bible, those charges have all faded one -by-one, but the Bible still remains. Why is that? Because the evidence within the pages of the Bible itself prove that it can in no way be the product of a man or a group of men (on their own)! God used men to write HIS WORD (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21). That’s amazing!
-David Sproule
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