Why Should I believe the
Bible?
Answer
Webster
defines "unique" as: (1) "One and only; single, sole";
(2) "Different from all others; having no other equal."
It was
written over a 1500-year span, during 60 generations, written in three
continents, Africa, Asia and Europe, three different languages, Hebrew, Aramaic
and Greek written by 40 authors from every walk of life including kings,
peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen, scholars, cupbearers, and
others. Written in times of war and peace, written in different moods,
joy and sorrow, written on hundreds of controversial subjects like, creation,
origin of man, nature of God, sin and redemption, yet there is unity in the
Bible.
Let’s get to
the point. The Bible was written over a 1500 year span but lets get 10 people
living today, not from three different continents but in one country, one city,
not people from different languages but who speak one language, not people who
have different occupation but one occupation give them one controversial
subject, do you think they will be united in what they say? Certainly
not.
Many
tried to burn the Bible, ban the Bible yet still it is the number one seller.
Voltaire the French atheist who lived in 1700’s predicted that Christianity
would be swept from existence and pass into history within 100 years of his
time. Fifty years of his death, the Geneva Bible society used his printing
press and his house to produce thousands and thousands of Bibles.
1 Peter
Jesus Christ
The center of the Bible is Christ Jesus.
Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of
the book it is written of me. (Written thousands of years before Jesus birth)
Joh
Why it is that Christ is the center? Because of redemption. Only the first two chapters of the
Bible speak on the creation and the balance is all about redemption, meaning
speaking of delivering the sinner from sin. It took God to speak his word
in creation as he spoke and it was created out of nothing but in redemption it
took a blood sacrifice.
Old Testament Prophecies of the Messiah
Jesus
fulfilled hundreds of prophecies, meaning predictions of the prophets recorded
in the Old Testament.
Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his
name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, and The Prince of Peace.
Mic 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he
come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been
from of old, from everlasting.
Crucifixion
was prophesied.
Ps
The Book of
Psalms is in the Old Testament. What was the death penalty in the Old
Testament? Stoning to death. Crucifixion was invented
by the Romans. Here in the book of Psalms speaking of a future event as it says
they pierced my hands and feet, a clear prediction of the crucifixion given
about thousand years before Christ was born.
Jesus is
the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua or Jehoshua
derived from the Hebrew “Jehovah is salvation or LORD is
salvation"
"And she
shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name
JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” ( Mt
1:21) He is the savior of the world. There is only one savior and that is
God himself.
"Even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior." ( Isa 43:11)
God became
man in Jesus, as he came to save his people from their sins.
"For unto you is born this day in the city of
The Bible,
the word of God change lives. The word of God is powerful it created the
heavens and the earth and the word of God is even more powerful it can transform
and un holy wicked man to a saint of God. The word of
God contains life as we have a living Savior
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Heb