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The Bible itself admonishes us to "always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you" (1 Peter 3:15). Can you give a good reason why you believe the Bible is the Word of God?
The Bible contains words from God.
The whole world was created by His word, Genesis 1. In the OT the prophets spoke words from God, "thus saith the Lord" and also told of how God spoke to them in dreams and visions. These words, although often having an immediate application for the situation people were in, also looked ahead and pointed to THE Word of God; Jesus.
Jesus taught people about God, and said that his teaching came from God, John 7:16, and spoke God's words, John 14:10. Jesus' words were shown to be true by the miracles that he performed, Acts of the Apostles 2:22. His words and teachings were recorded by 4 Gospel writers, and before that, would have been repeated and taught orally. The disciples were taught by Jesus for 3 years, and after the resurrection, Jesus also explained how all the OT Scriptures spoke of him, Luke 24:27, Luke 24:44. The Holy Spirit was given to live in Jesus' followers, to bear witness to him and remind us of the words that Jesus spoke. It is he who inspired men to write down all these words from God, and he interprets, and applies, it to us as we read.
One day, God will speak the word, Jesus will return and the world will end. We have been told about this too. God has been revealed to us through his word - the written word and the Word made flesh.
Although I have very often used the phrase "the Bible is the word of God", that is not the whole story. And the problem with saying it is that there are people who will then say "ah, so every word in the Bible must be literally true and is to be applied by us today." Others say, "it is the word of God, but there must be only ONE version that is truly correct and has all God's words down to the last syllable." There then follows a long argument because "their" Bible says this in Zechariah 15v2 but another Bible has "at" instead of "on", or whatever, and scholarship has proved that "on" is correct - therefore that other Bible can't be the word of God. (BTW there is no Zechariah 15v2, I was giving a fictional reference to explain a point.)
So, long answer short; the Bible contains words from God. In the OT, these pointed to the Word, who came, John 1:14, and taught us about God by his words and example. His words and teachings were confirmed by his miracles, and he himself was conformed as the Son of God, and eternal Word, when he was raised from the dead, Romans 1:4.
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