You may hear a statement like the following: “The Bible is just a book that was written by man.”

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 you 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 you 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 another case of just 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.

You may hear a statement like the following: “The Bible is just a book that was written by man.”

This is a bit of illogical thinking since it is based on circular reasoning. The person who says this first assumes that God does not reveal anything to anyone. The person may even assume that God does not exist. Then, from that assumption, they seek to use the assumption to prove to themselves that their original assumption is true by simply stating it a bit differently: “The Bible was just written by men.”

Is The Bible just a book written by Men or is it the inspired Word of God?

The idea in this question is that, since the authors were fallible human beings, the Bible is fallible.

Many people try to define exactly how the process of divine inspiration works. This is not wise. We can know some things about the inspired Word of God and how it was inspired.

The purpose of this question:

The scoffer reasons: "If the Bible were just the opinions of men, then would not my opinions just as valid? So if that is true, then I can do what I want and continue in my rebellion against God. I can claim that God never made it clear that I was to obey." The reason that people want an unreliable Bible is because they don't want to do God's will. For many people, they want to disobey one or two of God's precepts (for instance: perversions of marriage, greed, or cruelty). Some people want the ability to judge others for disobeying one part of God's Word and, at the same time, have an excuse for their own disobedience of another part of God's Word.

For most, it is just a desire to run their own lives separated from God, making their own decisions and not seeking complete unity with The Almighty God and His Love. This is the definition of iniquity. God has a plan for every aspect of our lives and He has designed us to be joined to Him in a wonderful way where we are constantly in submission to His will and He guides, directs, and empowers every thought, word, and action of our lives every moment of the day and night. That is the purpose and the goal.

This evil purpose is defeated in the fact that it is the Bible that reveals. God reveals through the Bible. He speaks to everyone who reads the Bible. No one can read the Bible without being exposed to the Almighty, but many people, even people who wear the tag, Christian, are so calloused against God that they cannot hear His voice.

The Answer:

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.

Ask for their hard evidence that shows that God did NOT reveal anything to the apostles and the prophets. If they are going to make such a rash statement, they ought to at least have some basis for believing it to be true. You will find that they will have nothing except hot air and wishful thinking. When they realize this, invite them to receive Jesus as their Savior. If they refuse, then you have a person who just is not open to truth. Their problem is that they do not want to do the will of God. In other words, they are committed to evil. When they refuse to hold God in their knowledge, God turns them over to a reprobate, a useless, mind. The human mind cannot function properly without the Love of God flowing through it. You may as well move on to someone who is not so closed-minded and hardened toward all that is good.

You may hear a statement like the following: “The Bible is just a book that was written by man.”

How can we know anything about anything

Is The Bible just a book written by Men or is it the inspired Word of God?

The purpose of this question:

The Answer:

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