Why the Bible?

The Bible in and of itself has no “owner” here on earth. The sole purpose of the Bible is to point people to Jesus. It doesn’t point to any specific institution, church or mortal man. The same things cannot be said of any other book. Even if another book speaks of Christ, the rights of that book belong to only one specific institution and in the end, point people to that particular establishment. Many people like the thought of receiving holy writings from God by some mystical singular event. It’s appealing to the flesh. However, God has shown that He works over time, through real, historical, actual ways, and from real, historical, actual people and places. Just think about it, God doesn’t “magically” deliver a full-term baby out of thin air and yet the real ways, real people and real time He chooses to create a child is still a miraculous event. God worked the same way when He delivered His Word to all mankind. The Bible contains sixty six different books, written by over forty different writers, who lived on at least three different continents, and spoke in at least three different languages.  They wrote over the course of no less than a time span of one thousand five hundred years. What’s even more amazing is how the separate writings support each other. Many of the writers didn’t even know one another, which made a conspiracy to deceive impossible. God doesn’t tell us to search, test and prove truth (Deuteronomy 13) and then leave us with no evidence. No, through the Bible He has left us a mountain of evidence to search, test and prove. Does the divinity of the evidence we find come down to faith? Yes, that’s the same scenario found when Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus and when Simon Peter professed Jesus to be the Christ. Jesus told Thomas: “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed”. But, let’s not forget that right before Jesus said that to Thomas He had allowed him to feel the prints in his hands, feet and side. Thomas was genuine in his request for proof (unlike the scribes and Pharisees in Matt 12) so Jesus granted his request, but it was the unseen Spirit that witnessed to the divinity of the evidence Thomas was seeing that made him believe. Same thing goes with Simon Peter. The Messiah was standing right in front of him when he confessed that He was the Christ, but Jesus said “flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Evidence alone does not witness of divinity, the unseen Spirit does and God uses both (Romans 1:19-20). Jesus said: “no man has seen God at any time…” (John 1:18) So, faith in God (divinity), himself is what we believe without seeing. Thus, we walk by faith in the unseen God. This is not the blind faith that any other religious book asks of its reader. Blind faith is dangerous because just like the dangers of feelings (Jeremiah 17:9), anything goes. Search the Bible, test it and compare what you find with any other religious book and you’ll see that it is incomparable. Will you find things that scholars and scientists disagree on? Yes, but the evidences that are proven and agreed upon by reputable scholars and scientists (both secular and religious) will blow your mind. When you decide where to put your faith remember that, “The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.” (Proverbs 14:15)