The Bible is God's Word

The Book of Books written several thousand years ago. Loved and cherished by many, yet hated and despised by others. But this Book is more than just a book. This Book has changed lives, contains more prophecies than any other religious book, and has been ahead of scientists throughout history. Even when theories contradicted it and people thought that it was old fashioned and needed to me removed or reformed, we found later that it wasn't the Bible that needed to change but the theories. No other book in history can compare to this one. There is only one way this book would be able to do all this and that is for this book to be God's inspired word. But in order for it to be God's inspired word it must also be infallible. Since God is perfect, His Word must also be perfect, otherwise it was just written by men and everything Christians live for is for nothing. But don't many people today say there are many contradictions in the Bible. Also that this proves it is just a fairytale and shouldn't be trusted. Is this true, or is it not. I say there are none and to prove my point I will be presenting 2 popular "contradictions", and I will show why they are wrong. The first so called contradiction appears in Genesis 1,2. In Genesis 1 it says that man was created with the land animals after the fish and birds (Gen. 1:20-27) . But in Genesis 2 it seems to suggest that the beasts and the birds were created after man (Gen. 2:19). People many times use this as a clear contradiction and so prove that the Bible was only written by man. But Answers in Genesis provides a good explanation for this. The Hebrew word translated to mean formed in Gen. 2:19 is yatsar. But this word could also be translated to mean had formed, which makes this passage, not another creation story, but a more detailed account of day 6. The second is what actually happened to Judas? In Mathew 27:5 (And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself) it says that Judas hung himself. But in Acts 18:1 (Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.) it appears to give a different story of how Judas died. This is another popular "error" that people use to prove the Bible wrong, but if you study it more you learn that once again it isn't the Bible that is wrong. An error only occurs when you view this from a perspective that these are two separate descriptions of how he died. Instead this is an order of what happened to him. Matthew writes about how Judas died, by hanging himself. Luke (the author of Acts) writes what happened to Judas after he died, there isn't any mention that this is how he was killed. All you need to do is look at it from a different perspective and there is no error. But even if there were many errors in the Bible, considering its background, wouldn't you expect hardly anything to agree in it. Because the Bible was written by over 40 authors from various areas of life. It has been written by shepherds, farmers, tent-makers, physicians, fishermen, priests, philosophers, and kings. Try getting 5 people today to agree on only a few matters of opinion. Yet if this wasn't enough, the entire Bible was written book by book over a 1,500 year time period. And some of the authors never read or heard any of the others' writings. We should expect many huge contradictions in the Bible, but for the most part people only find small contradictions which many times just need a knowledge of the language or culture to understand it. The only way the Bible could be so intact is if it was God's Word. For my second point I would like to observe how the Bible has always been ahead of the "facts" of that time. One example is Leviticus 15:13 (And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.) This is telling those that are sick or have a disease to bathe in running water after they have been healed. Yet it was more than 2 thousand years later when it was discovered that washing your hands in a basin or still water does not remove all germs. Only running water will get rid of most harmful germs. But how were the Jews supposed to have known about that? And keep in mind this was during a time when cleanliness was not well observed. It was only a couple centuries ago when people found out about harmful germs. Now if this was the only example then the Jews might have just got lucky when creating random laws, but this isn't the only one. Leviticus 17:14 (For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off) talks about not being allowed to eat the blood with the meat because it is the life. However this was practically the last thing people thought at that time (that was the reason for the process of bloodletting). So why would they make this law? Today we know that blood is what gives you life. It's what brings your body the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It's what fights off sickness and infections. Without blood we would die. Yet the Israelites had no way of knowing about this. They didn't have the technology or the knowledge about the human body that we have. Only an all knowing being could have known about this. Still another example is Jeremiah 33:22 (As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.). This verse says that the stars cannot be counted. Once again this contradicts the thinking of this time. This verse was written around 2,600 years ago, probably around 600 B.C. But in 150 B.C. Hipparchus, said that there were less than 3,000 stars. Ptolemy in 150 A.D. said he that had counted exactly 1,056 stars. It wasn't even until around the 1600's, when Galileo observed the heavens with a telescope, that people found out it is impossible to count all the stars. These 3 times people had thought the Bible was in error, but it turned out they were wrong. If these examples aren't enough then you can look up Job 26:7, Genesis 3:19, Isaiah 40:22, and my favorite Job 37:7. If you're still skeptical about these verses and just think that the Israelites were just making up random things, then think about it logically. Not many things have changed during history, people want their country to be the best and to be on top. And one of the ways is to be up to date on the theories and technology of other countries. But if you came up with an idea that was the opposite of what people thought at that time (and stayed like that for centuries), also having no proof or facts to prove it, do you think you would keep it. You wouldn't even have tried to come up with anything close to it. The Isreaelites weren't much different. Like other countries they wanted a king and other things. So why did they keep these verses? They were obviously thought of as absurd. The only answer is because an intelligent designer inspired them to write them. In conclusion, it is simply impossible for the Bible to not be God's Word. It has been the most persecuted book in all history, yet we still have it with us today. So many attempts have been made to get rid of it but all have failed. How is it that a book that was written thousands of years ago can have such an impact on people today. People have died for their love of it, and people have killed others because of their hatred of it. Even though countries have outlawed it, it always is able to grow inside that country. Wherever it's persecuted the most is where it thrives the most. This must be God's Word. https://answersingenesis.org... https://answersingenesis.org...