The Bible is God's Word

Firstly I would like to ask con have you ever read the Bible? If so, how much of it? Whether the Bible contradicts itself or not doesn"t prove it's God"s word. There are books that write about subjects and don"t contradict, but if the authors said their book was divine, the fact that the book doesn"t contradict itself is no proof of this. Checking if a document contains contradictions is one out of three important tests to see if that document is accurate or reliable. So checking for contradictions is extremely important to prove the Bible right. Also you completely missed out on the main point of my argument. I never said that just because the Bible claimed to be inspired proved that it was right. It's the fact that it has been written by over 40 different authors, over a 1,500 year period. That is what makes it amazing that there are no contradictions in it. Pro contradicts himself in this argument. I never said there were contradictions in the Bible. I was stating that the Bible has the most amazing past than other book. That logically, the Bible shouldn't even be together considering how it was written. I never have, and never will, assert that there are contradictions in the Bible. MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,... LUKE 3:23...the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli. This is contradiction can be cleared up very easily. Here are two links that give a logical answer for this. https://erikbrewer.wordpress.com... https://answersingenesis.org... The answer to who went to the tomb is summed up in this link https://answersingenesis.org... Is Pro going to use the Hebrew bible or the King James Version as he specified in the beginning? I never specified that I would only use the King James Version. I said that I would be trying to prove that the King James Version is the Word of God. I am allowed to use whatever version of the Bible as long as it helps me prove the King James Version is true. Well, this is basically a criterion that allows for Hinduism and Islam to be God"s word also. Pro uses the Appeal to Accomplishment fallacy. The Qur"an has never been majorly persecuted like the Bible has. It was not because of the Qur"an that the Crusades started. But it was because of the Bible that the Catholic Church, the Roman Empire, Stalin, and many others persecuted Christians. If you don't believe me that the Bible is hated, go on a busy street corner and preach about how if you don't accept Islam you will be killed. Then the next day go to the same street corner and preach how Jesus died for you so you don't have to go to Hell. What do you think would happen? CHRISTIANITY persecuted Muslims during the Crusades and they didn"t succeed in destroying it. Well, if the Qur"an survived Christianity, then it must be superior to the bible"s word, and therefore it is the true God"s word! Christianity never persecuted the Muslims. The people who ordered and led the crusades were not Christians. What the world commonly misunderstands is that not everyone who calls themselves a Christian is a Christian. Matthew 17:16 (Ye shall know them by their fruits...) the people who wanted to rid the world of Muslims were not following the Bible, therefore their works show that they are not a Christian. Killing for it? Does that give credibility? Actually it does but in a different sense than the one Con is portraying. How can the Bible be loved by millions, and at the same time persecuted by many (to the point of killing others, who are spreading it, in an attempt to stifle it). Even the Qur"an cannot relate to this. It is loved by many, but no one has killed someone else because they hated it so much. I further argue that even if the Bible has some true facts, it doesn"t make it all a truth. Here Con gives an illustration that seems to prove his point. But the problem with it is, the Israelites weren't experts on these things. They never knew that the body has the same constituent elements as that of dirt (Gen.3:19), that germs can be cleaned by running water (Lev. 15:13), that blood gives you life (Lev. 17:14), that the earth isn't being held up by anything (Job 26:7), that fingerprints can be used to find criminals (Job 37:7), that the earth is round (Isai 40:22), or that the stars can't be counted (Jer. 33:22). The Israelites never knew about these things, nobody did for several thousand years! The Bible also says the Earth is 6,000 years old, which was debunked with radiometric dating. Radiometric Dating is not an accurate way of finding out the age of things. http://creation.com... We know we weren"t created and we are the product of evolution. This comment is just the same as me saying, we know evolution is false and we were created by God. We know that we cannot fit all the animals in the world into a space of 150 meters long by 25 wide. Not all the animals in the world went on the ark. Only 2 of each kind (except clean animals). A kind can be described as a species, like the cat kind and the beetle kind. Basically only 2 representatives for each species went on the ark. And they would have been very young. There would have been way more than enough room on the ark. We know that all the animals on the ark that got to a height higher than Mount Everest"s would have died because of a lack of oxygen. The flood didn't need to get higher than mount Everest because there was no mount Everest. The mountains could have been created after the flood. We know grass can"t grow before the sun is created. Grass and other plants can survive for a day without sun. Plus don't you think if someone is able to speak things into existence, they can make things grow and survive one day without the sun. We know there are no giants. So what we observe today, is what has always been happening. Well I guess you have to get rid of evolution. Because we don't see animals evolving (not adapting) today. We know that dragons don"t exist. Dinosaurs were called dragons in the Bible. We know human beings can"t live more than 900 years. There is no such thing as something being supernatural. Don't you think that NOTHING exploding and forming the world we know today is supernatural? And we know the Earth isn"t flat. This verse does not imply that the earth is flat. Since Jesus is the Son of God, He can do anything, including see all the kingdoms of the world from one spot. Satan, being once an angel himself, may have been able to do this too. The Bible does not imply the earth is flat. In fact Isaiah 40:22 says the earth is round or spherical, according to the Hebrew. And lastly, I do not have to prove God is real to be able to prove the Bible is true. That is an entirely different debate topic, and this topic is that the Bible is God's Word. Before I just stated some of the facts about the Bible, but now I will do a more in depth study. As I said before, the Bible has been more viciously attacked, ridiculed, and blasphemed than any other book. But it is still the world's best selling book year after year. Daniel Radosh from The New Yorker said "The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year. Calculating how many Bibles are sold in the United States is a virtually impossible task, but a conservative estimate is that in 2005 Americans purchased some twenty-five million Bibles"twice as many as the most recent Harry Potter book. The amount spent annually on Bibles has been put at more than half a billion dollars". Once again how can a single book do all this and not be divinely inspired? No other book in the entire history of the world can be compared to this one.