Religious texts are valid forms of evidence when advocating for the validity of a religion.

The title here is that "Religious texts are valid forms of evidence when advocating for the validity of a religion", which essentially means that in any given religion, the sacred text can be used as evidence or reason to accept the validity/truth of a religion. Religion is generally based upon divine revelation and the supernatural, so a miraculous nature is needed to demonstrate a religious claim. Religious texts can do this and already have. I will start with the holy book of the Judeo-christian religion, the Bible. The Bible is a bunch of collected documents written separately in different times. The "old testament" preceded the "new testament". It turns out that many prophecies have been made in the earlier texts and fulfilled later. The bible has many archaeological accuracies that go to demonstrate the prophecies being fulfilled. Fulfilled biblical prophecies: http://www.reasons.org... 1. Psalm 22, 34:20; Zechariah 12:10. This describes the death of the future messiah four hundred years before the crucifixion of Jesus, described by King David of Israel and Zechariah the prophet. 2. Micah 5:2. In 700 B.C., prophet Micah named the birthplace of the future Messiah, Jesus. 3. 1 Kings 13:2 and 2 Kings 23:15-18. A prophet predicted that King Josiah would burn bones of occultic priests on Jeroboam's altar. Three hundred years later, it happened. Here is a list of fulfilled prophecies: http://www.bible.ca... My opponent might say that the writers just carefully crafted the texts to fit the prophecies foretold years before, but if you want to go by archaeology and actual discoveries, the bible is a remarkably accurate book of history. Here is what scholars that rigorously study the historicity of the bible say: "But the amount of evidence for the text of the New Testament , whether derived from manuscripts, early versions, or patristic quotations is so much greater than that available for any ancient classical author that the necessity of resorting to emendation is reduced to the smallest dimensions." [The Text of the New Testament, Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Fourth Edition, Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman, pg. 230] "Fortunately, if the great number of MSS increases the number of scribal errors, it increases proportionately the means of correcting such errors, so that the margin of doubt left in the process of recovering the exact original wording is not so large as might be feared; it is in truth remarkably small. The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice." [The New Testament Documents; Are They Reliable?, F.F. Bruce, pgs. 14-15.] "In spite of these remarkable differences, scholars are convinced that we can reconstruct the original words of the New Testament with reasonable (although probably not 100 percent) accuracy." ['The New Testament: A Historical Introduction To the Early Christian Writings', 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pg. 481.] The bible also has many scientific accuracies unknown before: https://www.livingwaters.com... The bible predicts that the earth is round (Isaiah 40:22). The Bible predicts that the earth hangs on nothing (Job 26:7) The bible predicts that blood is needed to keep you alive (Leviticus 17:11). The bible predicts that there are different time frames all across earth (That it is day in one part of the earth and night in another part of the earth) [Luke 17:34"36] The bible predicts that there are a cycle of air currents (Ecclesiastes 1:6). The bible predicts the Hydrologic Cycle (Job. 26:8, Job 36:27-28) Next, I will go to the miraculous nature of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam. Muslims have been boasting about how miraculous their holy book is, and it turns out that they do have a point. The Qur'an is a mathematical miracle in itself. There are 114 chapters in the Qur'an. If you add up the number of verses in each chapter to each chapter number corresponding (For example, Chapter 1 has 7 verses, add them up, 1+7=8, Chapter 2 has 286 verses, add them up 286+2=288), divide the number of each chapter into even and odd numbers, and add up the even numbers and odd numbers separately, you will see that the total sum of the odd numbers will exactly equal the sum of all the chapter numbers and the sum of the even numbers will exactly equal the number of verses in the Qur'an. If you switch the order of any of the chapters, or change the number of verses, this will no longer be valid. There are more mathematical miracles in the Qur'an here: http://eholyquran.com... The Qur'an also speaks about the stages of embryonic development by using the word alaqah (means leech, suspended thing, and blood clot). It speaks about the shape of the embryo being mudghah (chewed substance). This is located in Quran 23:12-14. There are more scientific miracles in the Qur'an than this: https://www.islam-guide.com... I have demonstrated the fulfilled prophecies of the bible, scientific accuracies of the bible, mathematical miracle in the Qur'an, and scientific accuracy of the Qur'an. The nature of these books (mathematical miracles, fulfilled prophecies, and scientific accuracy) provides a very strong indication that this cannot have been done by average humans of those times, but of superknowledge. Considering that the texts of these religions claim to be inspired by God, the miraculous foreknowledge of these texts is best explained by supernatural origin. This means that the miraculous nature of these texts can be used as evidence for the truth of these religions. They can provide strong reason to accept a supernatural origin.