How people know the Bible is real?

Answer 1

Technically, you can't know for certain yourself that The Bible is true, because it contains firsthand accounts of certain occurrences, such as the parting of the Red Sea. In order to know for yourself that the story was true, you would have to have been there and seen it happen for yourself, and you can't, obviously.

The only thing you can do is trust the sources that tell you the Bible is true: the generations of Jews that each told their offspring the Old Testament's stories; the early Christian Church that put together the first Bible.

Answer 2

Christians know the Bible is real through the witness of the Holy Spirit in their hearts.

The Bible also proves its reality in that it has not only the answers to what is wrong with the world but how to set things right, not just in the present but also what will happen in the future.

Prophecies numbering in the hundreds have been fulfilled to the letter-many of them relating to Jesus Christ and His life on earth. Most of them were written hundreds of years before the events they described took place.

Archaeology has literally thousands of discoveries which directly substantiate historical details from the historical and prophetic passages in the Bible. This could not happen if the Bible were a fake.

Science also has not made one single discovery which contradicts the Bible. This is despite many assertions otherwise. In fact many of the founders of modern science believed in both the Bible and particularly in God as an all-wise creator who gave us an orderly world to study and a mind to discover details about it. Science did not develop in cultures without this basic presupposition.

The Bible clearly asserts that God has acted in space and time and had real dealings with real people. It is thus intimately connected with reality, just as God Himself knows each person intimately (better than we know ourselves) and wants to have a personal relationship with us. Christianity, according to the Bible is thus not mere belief but is about real history, real science and real living to the fullest as God intended and as the Bible outlines.

Answer 3

there is plenty of historical evidence that proves that many of the bible's charcters, like Jesus, Moses, Abraham and David really did exist. however, history alone cannot prove that God exists. that's up to you to decide for yourself.

Answer 4

It depends upon what you mean by 'accurate'.

How do we know the BIbles we have today are accurate, reliable translations?

The best Bibles have been translated from the earliest manuscripts by Greek and Hebrew experts. Some translations are regarded by theologians, Bible historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and so on as very reliable and accurate. These include the New International Version, the New Revised Standard Version, and the King Jame Version. We know the early manuscripts to be accurate by the science of textual criticism - a process of comparison of many manuscripts to ascertain the common original by analysing word and setence structure and so on.

How do we know that what is written in the Bible is an accurate account of what happened?

Many critics say that because the gospels dont entirely agree on the events surrounding Jsus they cannot be reliable. However, these slight discrepancies suggest that they ARE reliable records. Let's not forget that in a road accident there will be many witness statements all slightly different from each other because of different viewpoints. In the same way the bible accounts all speak of the same events but fro differing viewpoints. Add to this the inspirational nature of the writing, and the way in which the Bible has inspired lives and turned lives upside down as the Holy Spirit has worked in peoples'lives as they read it, and, if the Bible ISN'T accurate and reliable then I would like to see a book that IS as reliable as the Bible. It would be a very special book indeed.

Answer 5

A:To say that the Bible is true, we need to selectively choose passages that happen to agree with known history or passages about events about which we know nothing outside the Bible, so that we need not fear contradiction.

So we would not choose either creation account in Genesis because science has already shown both to be untrue: the first has the sun, moon and stars created after the earth already existed and grasses were growing in the ground, and placed in the firmament just above the earth; the second leads on to show that creation took place as recently as 6000 years ago. We would not choose the story of Abraham, the story of Moses and the Exodus, nor the story of Joshua's conquest of Canaan, because historians and other scholars have shown these stories to have no basis in fact. We would not choose Acts of the Apostles, because when it talks of the Apostle Paul it usually differs significantly from Paul's own account, meaning that one or the other must be untrue.

It would be safe to talk about the events surrounding the Babylonian Exile and the subsequent return from Exile. Most of this material agrees with what we know from extra-biblical sources.

Another Answer:

An age old question that many have tackled in their lifetimes, many that have begun their 'quest' with the intentions of disproving the Word of God. The only way to completely satisfy this question is for the individual to deeply delve into the Bible itself and not rely on the words/thoughts of others.

Initially, one should not be alarmed at what appear to be errors in the Bible. There are answers and solutions to these passages that may not be readily apparent. As noted Bible scholar Gleason Archer writes:

"As I have dealt with one apparent discrepancy after another and have studied the alleged contradictions between the biblical record and the evidence of linguistics, archaeology, or science, my confidence in the trustworthiness of Scripture has been repeatedly verified and strengthened by the discovery that almost every problem in Scripture that has ever been discovered by man, from ancient times until now, has been dealt with in a completely satisfactory manner by the biblical text itself-or else by objective archaeological information...

"There is a good and sufficient answer in Scripture itself to refute every charge that has ever been leveled against it. But this is only to be expected from the kind of book the Bible asserts itself to be, the inscripturation of the infallible, inerrant Word of the Living God" ( Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties,1982, p. 12).

Get good biblical study aides like a dictionary and concordance to help you in your journey. Begin with prayer for understanding and approach the Bible in great 'awe' and reverence for God and His revealed truths. Do not let your frustrations stop you as we each experience these. Use them to double-down on your goal of finding God's truth and you will surely get your answer.

Answer 6

We know the Bible is revealing the truth whenever we can confirm the biblical account by extra-biblical evidence. We can also choose to surmise the Bible is true in cases when it is internally consistent and credible, although there is no extra-biblical evidence to confirm the account. We usually know some accounts in the Bible are not true when they conflict with more credible extra-biblical sources. We can also choose to surmise the Bible is not true in cases when it is the least probable explanation for a supposed event, even when there is no extra-biblical evidence to contradict the account.

Answer 7

The same way you believe anything else. You have to listen, understand(based on the evidence), have faith and then believe.