Trust the Bible

Dear Victorious,

I know that we are supposed to believe the Bible is the "true word of God" and everything in it is true. How can we put such blind faith in such a book though?

Ronald N. - Tucumcari, NM

Dear Ron,

Basically because it contains the words of a holy, trustworthy and unchanging God. That may sound like some kind of rhetoric - but the fact is you put your faith in God. The same God that you believe in and trust to save you breathed these words that we call the Bible. So the Bible wouldn't have any credibility unless this God had credibility. Fortunately, He does!

In the history of the world, there has never been an incidence of anything in the Bible not being true. In the study of theology, there has never been an incidence of any part of the Bible contradicting another part of the Bible. Perhaps most compelling though is the fact that for thousands of years, the life experiences of God's people have testified to the accuracy of the Bible. In other words, my life gives me experiential knowledge of the truth of the Bible. So does the life experience of millions of other people throughout time.

Finally, let me speak to the various translations of the Bible. Some would discount the credibility or integrity of the Bible because it has been translated so many times. Here again, we have to put our faith in the God who breathed these words. He protects the translations. His Holy Spirit guides the translators and preserves the integrity of those translations. And again, we know this is true because in the various translations that He allows to be completed, there are no contradictions, no parts that are ever proven untrue - and millions of people's lives that give testament to the truthfulness of those translations.