How You Can Know That the Bible Is From God

“Didn’t men write the Bible?” 

Absolutely. When you write a letter, do you write the letter, or does the pen? Obviously you do; the pen is merely the instrument you use. God used men as instruments to write His “letter” to humanity. They ranged from kings to common fishermen, but the 66 books of the Bible were all given by inspiration of God. Proof that this Book is supernatural can been seen with a quick study of its prophecies.

Hear Great Leaders Speak About the Bible 

“The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.” —Rutherford B. Hayes

“Here is a Book worth more than all the other books which were ever printed.” —Patrick Henry

“That book, Sir, is the Rock upon which our republic rests.” —Andrew Jackson

“God used men as instruments to write His “letter” to humanity.”

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“The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.” —William McKinley

“There are a good many problems before the American people today, and before me as President, but I expect to find the solution of those problems just in the proportion that I am faithful in the study of the Word of God.” —Woodrow Wilson

“The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.” —Herbert Hoover

“We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt

Josh McDowell, writing in Evidence That Demands a Verdict, puts the Bible’s uniqueness into perspective for us:

The [Bible’s] authors, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, . . . wrote on hundreds of controversial subjects with absolute harmony from the beginning to the end. There is one unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation: the redemption of mankind through the Messiah—the Old Testament through the coming Messiah, the New Testament from the Messiah that has come. In Genesis, you have paradise lost, in Revelation you have paradise gained. You can’t understand Revelation without understanding Genesis. It’s all interwoven on hundreds of controversial subjects. Now here’s the picture: 1,600 years, 60 generations, 40-plus authors, different walks of life, different places, different times, different moods, different continents, three languages, writing on hundreds of controversial subjects and yet when they are brought together, there is absolute harmony from beginning to end . . . There is no other book in history to even compare to the uniqueness of this continuity.

From the School of Biblical Evangelism.