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Where In The Bible Will I Find... Evidence That The Bible Is Inspired?
Gary Colley |
Irrefutable evidences — both internally and externally — exist to prove the inspiration of the Bible. Externally, archeological finds have never been in conflict with the Bible. Instead, they actually confirm what the Bible already states and are in complete agreement with its text. While speculations like the notion of evolution disagree with the Bible, not one scientific fact disagrees with the Bible. In fact, the Bible often speaks of scientific facts before they are discovered by man. Internally, we must allow the Bible to give its witness to its own validity. We give this right to a person in a court of law. Why then should we deny it to the Bible? We can all see the rainbow. When we do, we should remember the promise made to Noah just after the flood — that God would never again bring a universal flood upon the earth. There also the changing seasons to consider. God promised Noah that, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Gen. 8:22). In the changing seasons we see God's faithfulness to His promises. This is also true with the tides of the ocean, by which you can set your watch, and which has certain boundaries to keep it from flooding the earth. And it is still a fact that every seed produces after its own kind, just as God decreed in Genesis 1:12. We would also point the doubter to the many prophecies made hundreds of years before they were fulfilled, yet each was fulfilled in minute detail (cf. Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:22-23). And then consider the universal endurance and popularity of the Bible. No other book, year after year through the centuries the world over has offered to man — and been acknowledged by him to be — the best way of living on this earth! Do you remember the Lord's promise about His book? He said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" (Matt. 24:35). Again, the apostle Peter stated, "But the word of the Lord endureth forever" (1 Pet. 1:25). Those who object to the Bible have never been able to offer us a book of better improvement or advantage. They never will. Test the Bible geographically, scientifically, and historically for accuracy and it always passes the test. |