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Subject Christians : How do we know the Bible is true ?

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Original Message Christianity is not a blind faith. It is the only religion that can prove itself and a main source of that proof is the Bible. Although it is becoming less common there are still people who tell others that they follow Christianity "because it feels right" or use wording like that. This is unfortunate since there is a lot of evidence supporting Christianity.

The strongest arguments for the accuracy of the Bible is its 100% accuracy in predicting the future. The Old Testament was written between 1450 BC and 430 BC. During that time, many predictions of the future were recorded in the Bible by Gods prophets. Of the events that were to have taken place by now, every one happened just the way they predicted it would. No other sacred writing has such perfectly accurate predictions of the future.

Both the Old and New Testaments are strongly supported by manuscript evidence. The Dead Sea Scrolls are one example of the Old Testament evidence. These documents came from the library of a settlement founded at Qumran before 150 B.C. and abandoned about 68 A.D. Some of the manuscript copies were made during that period, and some were written earlier and brought to the settlement. Ignoring spelling-oriented changes and similar small differences, the Dead Sea Scrolls match the Hebrew text behind todays Old Testament in spite of the passage of over 2,000 years.

Over 20,000 known manuscripts document the New Testament text. This makes the New Testament the most reliable document of antiquity. These manuscripts vary in size from a part of a page to an entire Bible. The earliest New Testament manuscripts date from the second century AD. These manuscript copies were written in different languages by people of different nationalities, cultures, and backgrounds. In spite of all those differences between them, the New Testament texts all agree.

[link to carm.org]
[link to www.rationalchristianity.net]

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