“The Bible is not ‘God’s Word’ because it was written by human authors.”
Would history books not written by those who were there necessarily be unreliable?
Jesus said, “Before Abraham was, I Am” John 8
Here Jesus says that he is God. That makes that the “Word of God”.
Logically then, anything written that Jesus spoke would be the word(s) of God.
Then I suppose anything written that describes Jesus: moods, feelings, actions, manners, events, postures, etc. would be the word of God because they are words describing God.
Furthermore if Jesus were to refer to the law, prophets and Scripture they too would be the word of God since God has given ascent to them.
In fact, when Jesus said, “Do not think I have come to abolish the law and the prophets. I have come not to abolish, but to fulfill” (Mt. 5), he says that not only does the Scripture speak of him, but that he has come to tell the rest of the story.
I think that qualifies as the “Word of God”
These people who question the Bible do not have any credibility. There are many more manuscripts of the Bible and about the Bible (by non believers of that time), exist based on Archaeology and libraries. No one would write about a loser who died on the Cross if He didn't truly rise again. No one will be willing to die for a lunatic who claimed to God and had nothing to show for it. Many of their mouths were shut when Qumran manuscripts were found. They said Hezekiah's tunnel was a myth and never existed. Later in archaeology it was found that the tunnel was not a myth. we can go on and on with evidence. All we need is some common sense and willingness to spend some time to read for ourselves the evidences. These people who question Bible, they accept other history book with much less number of manuscripts. Example:
Nobody questions Caeser: number manuscripts: about 25
nobody questions Demostheses number of man... 200
nobody questions Homer number about 625
New Testament: more than 20,000
In addition, the time when the above were written......... New Testament books were written much later than Homer, etc.
So there is no credibility to what they are claiming. They are pre-disposed not to believe for reasons that are mostly below their belt-line. They just look for some lame evidence to support their beliefs. They don't like Bible telling them not to have extra marital sex. They do not like Bible telling them to obey. They don't like the Bible telling them that the marriage between and a man and a woman.
Agreed. Those who question the Bible’s authenticity and reliability have no leg to stand on, yet many persist with the same tired accusations.
many who do this and also question whether the morals in the Bible are really the morals of God, or simply the machinations, aspirations and impositions of men - which is the way I understood the challanging statement/question - fear the consequences of their unrepentant immoral actions and hope that they can philosophize God out of existence. What these people do not realize though is that it is their own conscience warning them of such an eternal consequence that caused them to desire to annihilate God; their subconscious recognition of God’s law is what they fight against.
