How do we know Bible is true?

Evidence for the Bible
We have copies of the manuscripts and throughout history these copies show that the Bible has been transmitted accurately. Despite common skeptical claims that the Bible has often been changed through the centuries, the physical evidence tells another story.
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How historically accurate is the Bible?

One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate record of the historical Jesus and of the Apostolic Age. This tends to vary depending upon the opinion of the scholar.
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Is the Bible the true word of God?

The word of God came to him before any scriptures were written and before the bible was compiled. Therefore, neither the scriptures nor the bible can be the word of God. John says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
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What is the one true version of the Bible?

The New American Standard Bible is a literal translation from the original texts, well suited to study because of its accurate rendering of the source texts. It follows the style of the King James Version but uses modern English for words that have fallen out of use or changed their meanings.
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Where is the original Bible?

They are the Codex Vaticanus, which is held at the Vatican, and the Codex Sinaiticus, most of which is held at the British Library in London. "They're both fourth century," said Evans.
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How Do You Know The Bible is True?



Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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Can we trust the Bible?

1. The biblical manuscripts have been reliably transmitted from the authors to us today. What should a person look for when checking to see if an ancient text has been corrupted? The person should look for other surviving copies of that text to cross reference for variants.
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What is the truth in the Bible?

The Bible has much to say about truth and directly relates it to God. In fact, the definition of truth in "Harper's Bible Dictionary" includes the statement that "God is truth." And this is how He is understood in Christian Science, the Science by which Jesus healed.
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Who wrote the first Bible?

About The Book

For thousands of years, the prophet Moses was regarded as the sole author of the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch.
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Why is the Bible inaccurate?

The Bible is an unreliable authority because it contains numerous contradictions. Logically, if two statements are contradictory, at least one of them is false. The biblical contradictions therefore prove that the book has many false statements and is not infallible.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What are the 75 books removed from the Bible?

This book contains: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, The Book of Tobit, The Book of Susanna, Additions to Esther, The Book of Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, The Epistle of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasses, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Gospel of ...
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Who is God in the Bible?

God is our creator

We read in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, that God created everything—light, earth, water, air, plants, animals, and humans.
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What errors are in the Bible?

Here are some of the more memorable (the Society of Bible Collectors furnished several of these examples).
  • 'Sin on more' ...
  • 'Let the children first be killed' ...
  • 'If the latter husband ate her' ...
  • 'To remain' ...
  • 'Owl husband' ...
  • 'Holy ghost' ...
  • 'Peace on Earth and good will toward men' ...
  • 'Out of thy lions'
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What are the 5 truths in the Bible?

5 Truths That Never Fade
  • We are never alone. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. ...
  • God's character remains constant. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever… – ...
  • God's grace is sufficient. ...
  • We are commanded to love. ...
  • God is making all things new.
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WHO said in the Bible what is truth?

John 18:38 is the 38th verse in chapter 18 of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of Christian Bible. It is often referred to as "jesting Pilate" or "What is truth?", of Latin Quid est veritas? In it, Pontius Pilate questions Jesus' claim that he is "witness to the truth" (John 18:37).
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How many inconsistencies are in the Bible?

And in 1860, William Henry Burr produced a list of 144 self-contradictions in the Bible. Biblical scholars have studied inconsistencies in and between texts and canons as a means to study the bible and the societies that created and influenced it.
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How is the Bible written by God?

In my experience as a Catholic priest, one of the most commonly held accounts of biblical inspiration among Christians is that God “dictated” the Bible. According to this view, sometimes called the verbal dictation theory, God dictated each word of the sacred text to a human author who simply wrote it down.
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How can we trust what the Bible says?

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." The Good News: Putting your trust in God is the way forward. Set aside your anxieties and doubts and turn it all over to the Lord.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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How long after Jesus died was the Bible written?

Written over the course of almost a century after Jesus' death, the four gospels of the New Testament, though they tell the same story, reflect very different ideas and concerns. A period of forty years separates the death of Jesus from the writing of the first gospel.
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Who put together the first Bible?

Traditionally these books were considered to have been dictated to Moses by God himself. Since the 17th century, scholars have viewed the original sources as being the product of multiple anonymous authors while also allowing the possibility that Moses first assembled the separate sources.
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What is God's wife's name?

God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.
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How do you know God exists?

As mentioned earlier, evidence for God's existence is widely available through creation, conscience, rationality and human experience.
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Who is the real God?

God is described in the Quran as: "He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." Muslims repudiate the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Jesus, comparing it to polytheism.
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