What a good question. How do I know that a 2000 year old book tells the truth?
I'll give you several tracks:
- first: historically, the traces of authenticity of the Bible are enormous. Comparing the book of Julius Caesar's "Gallic War" and the Bible, there are 100 times more likely that the Bible is authentic!
- secondly, the Bible is consistent. This means that when you read the Bible, there is no passage that has nothing to do with others. When we read the Bible from the perspective of Jesus, we realize that everything is in the same direction. And so, with more than 40 authors different, who wrote in a period of 15 centuries.
- thirdly, some of the things the Bible said came true. This gives reason to believe the rest will come true too, right? For example, today, no serious historian would say that Jesus never existed. The early Christians were really persecuted as the Bible says.
- fourth: the Bible does not seek to justify herself, she said things that, for the time, did not play really in his favor. For example, it is women who first, find the risen Jesus. Now then, we did not trust women. If the authors of the Bible had tried to manipulate public opinion, they would give more credence to their story, saying that they were men.
In conclusion, I could give you all the reasonable arguments to convince you that the Bible tells the truth, but I think that only you can believe it. There is another step to be called faith, and nobody can do for you, to believe that this is not a fable, but the truth with a capital V. The truth that God has a plan for humanity, from beginning to end, with Jesus Christ from beginning to end, to give him glory.
So satisfactory response ?
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