The "inspired Word of God"

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The world says: "Jesus was not God, He was just a good man".

I can look at certain Scriptures and know without a doubt that Jesus was God.

The world says: "It's impossible for a virgin to have a child".

Again, I can look at certain Scriptures and know without a doubt that , indeed, a virgin did give birth.

The world says: "The stories, such as the flood, are nice stories, but are just stories".

Again, I can look at Scripture and know that it really did happen.

However, I am having trouble lately with this "inspired Word of God" thing. The world says that the Bible is "just a book, written by men, and fallible". And I can't point to any Scripture that proves to me what I've been taught all my life - that Scripture was literally breathed into the authors by God Himself, thereby making it absolutely infallible.

Help? Thanks.

[Guest LadyC]

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

[yukon]

I agree with LadyC!

My transulation says: All scripture is given by inspiriation of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV

Yukon

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Thank you both for that verse. Do you have any other answers for those who say Scripture was, in reality, written by mortal men who were influenced by their biases and the culture of the day? Thanks.

[Guest LadyC]

WIP, unbelievers are always going to argue that point. until they have had a personal experience with the Lord, you'll never convince them. and the fact that they are unbelievers is going to, in their mind, render the verses we just posted for you totally irrelevant.

BUT... there's a little bitty book by josh mcdowel called "more than a carpenter". buy it. buy dozens of copies of it if you feel inclined. interesting book that tackles the 'jesus was just a good man' theory. it takes you through all the prophecies about Christ, and points out how they were all fulfilled... hundreds upon hundreds of them... the odds of any individual in the history of the world fulfilling even a fraction of the prophecies is astronomical.

i sure hope i just recommended the right book!

[Guest LadyC]

here is an excerpt i found online... it is from another of josh mcdowell's books, called "a ready defense". it sounds very much like an excerpt from "more than a carpenter" (which is the only book of his i've ever read")

Read select chapters of A Ready Defense here

With even greater detail, God wrote an address in history to single out His Son, the Messiah, the Savior of mankind, from anyone who has ever lived in history -past, present, or future. The specifics of this address can be found in the Old Testament, a document written over a period of a thousand years, which contains more than three hundred references to His coming. Using the science of probability, we find the chances of just forty-eight of these prophecies being fulfilled in one person to be right at one in 10157 (a one followed by 157 zeros!).

[jesusson]

Another one that I can think of this one

[Blood Stained Soul]

Another one that I can think of this one

[Adstar]

Hello WIP :il:

Romans 9:1

I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 2:4

And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

1 Corinthians 2:13

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

2 Corinthians 3:3

clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

1 Thessalonians 1:5

For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

1 Peter 1:12

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.

The bible was written by men under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and it is therefore the Word Of God. One either believes that or one does not.

You can pray and have dreams or visions but how does one know that these messages come from God or from satan? What is our bed rock our foundation? What can we check these messages against to prove them true or false? We have nothing but the Word Of God as a standard by which all thoughts can me measured.

All praise The Ancient Of Days

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Thanks you, Adstar, and the rest of you!