I trust the Holy Bible because I know that the Holy Bible is trustworthy. This trust comes because I know the Author and I know that what the Bible says is true. I have studied and applied it and never found it to fail.
Here is a list of some of the reasons I trust the Bible, so that you can know that
YOU CAN TRUST THE BIBLE.
* The Bible is the word of God, according to the writers themselves, the men of God in ancient and Christian history, Jesus and the testimony of godly scholars from the past until the present.
* In spite of all the attacks on the Bible, it has withstood every argument, and left its detractors in disarray.
* Though the Bible is a book concerning faith, it is a book filled with facts and verifiable history.
* God directed the Biblical writers as they recorded His word.
* The original writings that came from the Biblical writers is called the autographs.
* The men (the scribes) who copied the Jewish writings of the Old Testament were technically meticulous and their work was examined by other experts (doctors of the law) for any variations or mistakes.
* The New Testament writings, being based in Jewish scholarship and practice, received the same watchful care in its transmission.
* No other writings in history are as well substantiated, and authenticated and documented and verifiable as the Bible. NO BRAG, JUST FACT.
* Those original writings were copied by contemporaries of the writers, and sent to other communities.
* The copies were then copied and reproduced by hand, thousands of times, over and over.
* The copies were distributed and preserved and stored for generations, covering thousands of years.
* The original words and thoughts of the Bible are found by scholars who study and compare the copies and fragments.
* The translations of the Bible have been made into many languages, often times by the people who hold the Bible to be sacred and the word of God, and they have been translated with the purpose of communicating the exact message that was originally delivered by the writers and the message of those writings as it fits together with the rest of Scripture.
* THE BIBLE HAS ONE AUTHOR (GOD), BUT MANY WRITERS.
TYPES OF TRANSLATIONS
* There are two basic kinds of translation.
* Formal, or Formal Equivalence (a translation that tries to translate the passage according to the technical meaning of the original words).
* Dynamic or Functional Equivalence (which tries to convey the main idea of the passage, rather than focus on the linguistic, cultural, historical significance of the specific words).
* Some people divide the translations into three categories, including word for word, phrase for phrase and paraphrase.
* I not only use all of these types of translations in my studies, but I refer to the scholars concerning the original words, culture and history related to the Biblical narrative, in order to understand the meaning of the word of God.
* If I could only have one type of translation, it would be the Formal, because I want to get as close to what God said as possible.
BIBLICAL FAITH IS NOT BLIND FAITH
* Everything we believe in this life, we believe because of a measure of faith, trust, dependence on the word of someone else. We choose to believe those sources which we have found to be reliable.
THIS IS WHY I TRUST THE WORD OF GOD ABOVE ALL OTHER VOICES.
* I have never been disappointed in the reasonableness, the accuracy or the scholarship of the Bible.
* At the beginning of my relationship with God, I accepted Christ and His word by faith. However, over the years I have been more fully convinced of the authority and veracity of the Bible because it stands alone and above all other sources.
* I encourage everyone to trust God and His word, especially as the world is becoming more confused and more antagonistic to God and His word.
THIS TOO IS THE FULFILLMENT OF SCRIPTURE.
