How Do You Know that the Bible is Accurate

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened. *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, “I guess I’m making the whole thing up.” It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn’t want God to rule over him.

The reason we believe that the Bible is the Word of God without error is because of direct revelation. This belief is NOT worthless rationalized faith, which is based on physical evidence and human reasoning. This revelation is given directly by God to everyone who will receive it.

This is not Circular Reasoning

It would be equally valid to say that He revealed it to you using the Bible, my conscience, a still small voice, prophecy in several Church services, a word of wisdom, a word of knowledge, a dream, a vision, and creation if that is the case. It is no more circular to say that God showed you something using the Bible than it is to say that a professor showed you something using a textbook.

Of course, the scoffer can always say that he or she doesn't believe you, and that is no surprise that a scoffer would scoff. The real point is that you don't believe them. You believe God instead of them. It is not your job to convince them of God. Your job is to tell the scoffer of your experience. Their job is to believe. If they fail to believe what God has told you and you have told them the truth by the Spirit of God, then they are not refusing to believe you. They are refusing to believe God. You see, when you speak by the Spirit of God, it is God speaking through you. It is not you who is speaking. You are nothing. You are just the instrument that God is using at the moment.

On the other hand, someone may lie and say that God revealed something that God didn't reveal. This has always been a problem. Such people are known as false prophets. They are like those scientists who were recently caught falsifying their data regarding supposed global warming. God does reveal through His creation, but a lying scientist may claim that something was observed when it was not observed. More often, a scientist makes accurate observations, records them accurately, and filters these observations through the lies of their own presuppositions to come to the wrong conclusion.

One thing you will find if you deal with scoffers. Very few of them have a working knowledge of logic. They may be teaching logic, but they have trouble applying it. That is because dogmas such as Agnosticism, Evolutionism, Humanism, Liberalism, Materialism, Naturalism, Post Modernism, Relativism, and Secularism require many logical fallacies. When someone has been trained in any of these dogmas, they lose the ability to process in a logical way. They may, however, live in two worlds. Using logic for practical decisions, and using insanity when thinking about their dogmas or the Spirit of God Who conflicts with their dogmas.

A scoffer will try to make a false choice between logic and revelation. However, revelation is always logical. Logic is part of God's nature and cannot exist without God. No one can use their mind correctly without the flow of the Anointing of the Holy Spirit through their mind. Without God's love flowing through the mind it is diabolical, degenerate, and useless. In fact, there is no way to logically defend logic, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, morality, or ethics if the the God of the Bible is not the true God. No other spiritual or natural explanation can account for any of these. If the scoffers were correct, then it would be impossible to know anything. But we can know things, so the God of the Bible is the true God. And it is this God Who directly reveals that the Bible is the Word of God.

How does God reveal this? God speaks. God speaks through the Bible. God speaks through visions, dreams, and more directly. God speaks through the Body of Christ. God speaks through creation. Humans can make mistakes in receiving revelation, so God has placed safeguards against false doctrine in the Church.

Whenever we are talking to an unbeliever, we are talking to someone who is blind and deaf to reality. Just as Jesus told Nicodemus that it is impossible to see the Kingdom of God unless a person is born again, you must explain that it is impossible for the unbeliever to see spiritual things. The problem is that they may want to see before they will believe, when they actually must believe before they will be able to see. If you had a microscope before anyone knew about microscopes and you tried to tell people about germs, they would not believe you. If you asked them to look through your microscope and they said, "First let me see the germs," you would be in the same position as talking to an unbeliever who demands proof first. The way that a person is born again is by believing.

Dogmatic unbelievers actually don't want God to exist. They don't want the Bible to be true.

It is true that the observable physical evidence supports God's existence and His Truth without the mental gymnastics that the Atheists and Evolutionists find themselves tangled in. However, our evidence is spiritual and is based in the power of God. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word (utterance) of God.   God speaks.   God speaks to every person.   Whoever will listen receives the faith that is of God.   This is a supernatural belief that is not human-generated.   It is a gift.

True faith is the belief that what God has said is true.   Before a person is born again, there is a history of hearing God's voice, although this hearing is very muffled.   No one can come to Christ unless the Father draws him or her.   A person is born again the moment that he or she hears God's voice and receives faith to believe in Jesus as Savior from sin.   In the same way, it is God who speaks and says that the Bible is the Word of God without error.   When we hear His voice, then His faith comes, the supernatural belief that the Bible is the Word of God without error.   Once God opens our eyes, we see that the Bible is the only source that is both internally and externally consistent.   We cannot possibly believe unless we are having an active interaction with our Maker.   Some Christians are not aware enough of their own experience to know this.   That's why we have all the previously-mentioned reasons for believing the Bible as the Word of God.

Interestingly, explanation given in the previous paragraph does not depend on circular reasoning or poor logic.   It depends on God.   This is the kind of faith that is what is really operating. It is based on revelation.   Now, a naturalist will attack the whole idea of revelation claiming that revelation cannot be verified. Actually, it is very well verified.

Anything spiritual must be revealed. The fallen carnal mind of man (or woman) cannot possibly receive it. In fact, to receive revelation causes gradual death of the fallen carnal mind as we become alive to Christ. As we begin to see reality as it really is, we leave behind the lies that have been planted by Satan.

God does not reveal to a mind that is closed to Him. He forces Himself on no one. You could speak as the oracle [direct mouthpiece] of God, and you are commanded to do so, and yet a fool will not receive the direct revelation that is coming from God to them through you. They will not understand it. They will not receive it. It will seem as if it were foolishness to them. The Spirit moves where there is submission to Him and a willingness to have Him govern.

How Do You Know that the Bible is Accurate

How can we know anything about anything

This is not Circular Reasoning

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