Can you find three reasons outside the Bible to prove the Bible is true?

Answer 1

There is no doubt that The Bible contains at least some truth. Whether the Bible is 'true' in its entirety depends on how high we choose to set the standard of truth.

Scholars say there is no doubt that at least some of the historical account in the Book of Kings is in accordance with actual history, as is some of the information about the Babylonian Exile and the period after the Return.

The Bible is also true when it says that the Israelites and the Jews worshipped more than one God throughout the period before the seventh-century BCE reign of King Josiah. Archaeology confirms this.

The Bible is not true when it talks of the Exodus from Egypt. The respected Israeli archaeologist, Israel Finkelstein says that over ninety per cent of scholars do not believe that the Exodus occurred as described in the Bible. And the story of the military conquest of Canaan is not true.

The biblical stories of creation and of Noah's Flood are not true. There are two, quite different and contradictory creation stories in Genesis, so at most only one of them could be literally true. And science tells us that neither is true.

The Bible is frequently provably untrue. The Book of Daniel was written by an author who actually believed that King Darius of Parsia defeated the Babylonian Empire. It was Cyrus the Great who defeated the Babylonian Empire.

Theologians and philosophers have attempted for centuries even to prove that God exists, always without success. The Bible may be true on matters of faith, but that requires faith to believe, since it is impossible to prove this.

So, 1) there is extra-biblical evidence that at least some of the later histories in the Bible are true; 2) there is extra-biblical evidence that the Israelites and the early Jews were polytheistic, as described in the Bible; 3) faith may tell some that the Bible is true on matters of faith.