Is there independent objective evidence that the Bible is God's Word?

[mcarans]

Is accepting the Bible is God's Word simply a matter of faith or is there also independent objective evidence available?

 

[St_Worm2]

These should be helpful. The first is a recent, award-winning movie/documentary (links to the trailer, the entire movie and the cast/contributors are included below), and the second is a short article with a video included (the article text and the text of the video are identical, just FYI). Enjoy

The God Who Speaks

Trailer 2min 30sec​

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Full Movie 90min​

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~The God Who Speaks | Contributors (including well-known Christian theologians, pastors, historians, apologists, evangelists and linguists)​

Is the Bible Truly God's Word?

~Is the Bible truly God’s Word? | GotQuestions.org​

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[NBB]

The disciples in the bible did what they did because they experienced God, we can experience God too, when the person the bible talks about interacts with you, is pretty simple to believe more that His book is all truth.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Is accepting the Bible is God's Word simply a matter of faith or is there also independent objective evidence available?

Unfortunately, that's not a completely legitimate question, one that through insinuation and semantics dismisses and entire horde of intervening factors.

It's time for people to stop asking this "wholesale" question as if it philosophically carries with it some dominant and authoritative positioning.

 

[The Liturgist]

Is accepting the Bible is God's Word simply a matter of faith or is there also independent objective evidence available?

Well, according to John 1:1-14, objectively, its not, except in a secondary or indirect sense, however, there are scriptural verses that indicate that Scripture is divinely inspired. However since different churches are only able to agree on the contents of the New Testament, and other issues, we also have a lack of consensus on what constitutes a complete Bible.*

*Specifically, the controversy surrounding some of the more recent translations, such as those which use dynamic equivalence and those which are translated from the Minority Text (basically, the Alexandrian text type, in particular two of the three ancient manuscripts, which are the oldest codices which contain all of the books we regard as scripture along with some books which we do not, but whose status was at the time disputed) rather than the Majority Text (which is basically the Byzantine Text type, which was the basis for the Textus Receptus albeit with a change from the Septuagint to the Masoretic Old Testament text for books available in Hebrew; the result is actually very similar to the later editions of the Vulgate with certain books never accepted as canonical but translated just in case, like 4 Esdras and Laodiceans pruned away) in terms of content.

 

[Johan2222]

To answer this question, I would like you to consider the (statistically impossible) coincidences in “Love” and how Joseph’s revelation to pharaoh alludes to its origins.

After you have done so, seeing how these things would be impossible with men, hopefully you will have an answer to your question.

In Genesis 22.2 the word love first appears in scripture at the beginning of a passage where Abraham (meaning father of many) took his only begotten son into the land of Moriah to offer him as a sacrifice upon a mountain.

Some 2200 years after Abraham was born, God (the Father of many) took His only begotten Son into the land of Moriah to offer Him as a sacrifice upon a mountain.

Golgotha, the place where Christ was crucified is a peak in the Mountain range of Moriah.

Isaac, (meaning laughter) is mysteriously omitted from the Genesis story for two chapters, and the next time he appears is when he receives his bride, Rebekah.

Christ (The bringer of eternal laughter to mankind) has been mysteriously omitted from the history of man for two millennia, and the next time He will appear is when He receives His bride. (John 3.29. Matthew 25.10)

Abraham’s senior servant, Eliezer, (which means God comforts) who wields Abraham’s power over all of his possessions, is sent by Abraham to find a bride of unusual faith for Isaac.

God’s Holy Spirit (who Christ called "the comforter") who wields God’s power over all of creation was sent to earth by God to find a bride of unusual faith for Christ.

Abraham possesses the fire and the knife and Isaac bore the burden of the wood.

God possesses the Holy Spirit (revealed in the burning bush and tongues of fire) and the power of life and death, and Christ bore the burden of the cross.

Abraham had two sons; the son of the flesh, Ishmael, born first, and the son of the promise, Isaac, born afterwards by a miraculous conception.

God had two sons; the son of the flesh, Adam, born first, and the son of the promise, Jesus, born afterwards by a miraculous conception.

Isaac in this foreshadowing prophecy Is Acting As Christ, (Mnemonic) the only one of the Trinity to be revealed openly.

By deduction we can logically assume that Abraham arrived at the sacrifice location about 3.8 days into his journey (Genesis 22.4) and we know Christ arrived at the place of His sacrifice about 3800 years after Adam. (For which 2 Peter 3.8 “coincidentally” provides an explanation)

Now consider this;

Genesis 41:32 KJV

And . . . doubled . . . twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

DOUBLED TWICE

“Doubled twice” being a sign that God has established something (Gen 41.32) it is obviously not just coincidence that “love”, (which God established) first occurs in Genesis 22.2 (incidence number 2 of 222 in scripture) where it uncovers the love of the Spirit, while Genesis 2.22, incidence number 1 of 222 uncovers the love of the flesh, but notably the word love is not used to describe it.

Here are the two scriptures.

Genesis 2:22 KJV

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. (the first time Adam saw Eve.)

Genesis 22:2 KJV

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. (the foreshadowing of the crucifixion of Christ.)

1 Corinthians 15:45-47 KJV

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. [46] Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Knowing that Christ is number 2 in heaven (John 14.28) and that the numbers were only put into the Bible about 400 years ago, perhaps one can begin to understand how God can say.

[10] Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Isaiah 46:

It is noteworthy that this numerical symmetry does not occur in meaning based translations like the NIV. This should not come as a surprise to anyone because the NIV, like all meaning based translations of scripture are simply private interpretations of what men think scripture means.

2 Peter 1:20 KJV
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

Many people it appears have refused to heed the warning.

Revelation 22:18-19 KJV
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: [19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

I have by no means included all of the “coincidences” included in the above foreshadowing prophecy and indeed some of them are so intense that many of you would not be able to bear them.

Could man alone have had the power to write these things, or the following prophetically perfect genealogy in Genesis which reveals the same prophecy through a different lens?

If nothing else, knowing that man does not know the future, I think that you can safely conclude that the Bible could not have been written by man alone.

 

[Joseph G]

Is accepting the Bible is God's Word simply a matter of faith or is there also independent objective evidence available?

Yes. Me.

And my brothers and sisters in Christ.

We are evidence.

God's greatest miracle is removing our hearts of stone and replacing them with His heart of flesh. It begins the day we receive His Son Jesus as Lord and Savior. And He does so through His Living Word - as written and in concert with His Holy Spirit within us.

The other evidences like prophecy and historical are profitable too - but if there weren't anyone walking around testifying that God does exactly as He promises - then these proofs would fall on deaf ears.

God bless!

Oh yes, it IS about faith. Its impossible to please God otherwise. But it is faith that is the instrument through which we are freed from the deceptions of this world and see reality - especially Who God *really* is!