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TechnoratiThen I started really studying his Word and began to sense that this was truth. And it claimed again and again to be the truth, the God inspired truth (Proverbs 30:5; John 17:17: 2 Timothy 3:16.)
As I grew older and began to share my faith in my early teens I would point my friends to the sky, tell them about the difference Jesus made in my life and then take them to the Scriptures. Some of them believed. But some of them did not.
They started asking me questions like,
“How do you know your experiences are any less valid than someone from a different religion?”
“So what if the Bible claims to be the truth, so does The Book of Mormon and The Koran. What makes the Bible true?”
“How do you know that your God is the right God?”
As I wrestled with these excellent questions over the years I began to put myself in the shoes of God. If I were God, I wondered, how would I prove my way was the only way to the world? Here’s what I have deduced over the last four decades of my life on this earth:
1. I would make people look up.
I would create an amazing earth and a breathtaking sky to get everyone’s attention. That would be my bullhorn that would scream, “I am here and I am not silent! This is not an accident! All of this was made by me for you! You can see that I am powerful by the creation itself! You can see that I am good because I’m giving you so many good things to enjoy! You can see that I am because I AM!”
2. I would send people a holy book.
I wouldn’t send it all at once. I would send it over the course of 1,500 years from forty different men from all sorts of cultural backgrounds. Why would I do that? Because the only way such a wide-ranging book from such wide-ranging authors would completely agree on everything they touched on would be if I was the real Author behind it all. My Spirit would prove that this book was from God through the sheer fact that every word on every page is totally non contradictory with everything else on every other page!
Anyone could claim to have written a holy book (Joseph Smith, Mohammed, etc) but this book was not the brain child of one person with a vivid imagination. It was a project that took 15 decades to complete and even longer to compile. The miracle of the Bible is its absence of errors. Those who claim that it is full of errors usually haven’t read it through once. I have studied it again and again over the last forty two years of my life and I have yet to find one legitimate error. The only way that could happen is that it was completely inspired by God Himself.
3. I would give proofs in that book that were indisputable.
As I studied the Word of God over the years I began to see that there was an indisputable pile of proof that showed the Bible was divine in origin. I began to realize that if I were God I wouldn’t just give them a holy book and tell them “just believe it.” I would give them reasons to believe that were powerful.
Did you know that the Old Testament contains over three hundred prophecies about Jesus that were literally and fully fulfilled in him? These aren’t wussy prophecies that are relatively unclear and written in a way that could be taken in several ways. These are specific prophecies like:
The place where Jesus would be born (Mich 5:2)
That he would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14)
How Jesus would die (Psalm 22) Continue »
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