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Who Said the Bible is True?

Skwim

Skwim

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NulliuSINverba said:
<<<puts on Christian Hat>>>

The Bible says the Bible is true. Duh. What more evidence would any rational person require?
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Robert Landbeck

Robert Landbeck

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The Bible is nothing more than a selection of scriptural material, chosen from a much greater collection, by an early roman church to impose theological orthodoxy. And the blood and arguments have never stopped since! Hardly the stuff of truth. Discoveries of new material such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Library demonstrate that the scriptural record is incomplete at best. What more is still to be discovered? And if the Bible is incomplete so then is any understanding than man has attempted to derive from it. That is to say: "All is chasing after wind". Religion may exist making claims but whether they have anything to do with God is another question. If God cannot do better than two thousand years of perpetual argument, blood, simony, and an architectural facade, probably designed to distract attention from the absence of a pedigree, then there probably is no God. The Final Freedoms





Skwim said:
And why should we believe them? The evidence?

The Focus on the Family web site tried this tact but failed miserably. It asked "How Do We Know the Bible Is True?" and then went on to answer by essentially saying "because Christians believe it is." Nice, but hardly convincing. Nothing becomes true simply because we believe it is. Of course other characteristics were cited that supposedly confirms the Bible's truth: "it corresponds to reality," it's "internally consistent," and it's "coherent." But as we all know, this can be equally true of a whole lot of BS.

Then they presented a basket full of specious evidence such as, "copies show that the Bible has been transmitted accurately," "the Christian worldview is robust, reasonable and grounded in history," and "making a case for the truth of the resurrection also makes a case for the truth claims of Jesus and, in turn, the reliability and truth of the Bible." and what makes the case for the truth of the resurrection? They say it's Paul's admission that "if the resurrection did not happen, Christian faith "is futile; you are still in your sins."

But perhaps Focus on the Family is simply inept in making a case for the truth of the Bible, and really botched the job. So I ask:,

What rational evidence do you have that the Bible is true?
(No need to bother yourself with things such as the Flood or Jonah in the "big fish." We'll just accept them as tall tails)
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