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What are the “best” and “most convincing proofs” leaves a good deal of latitude for the person in answering this question. With this in mind, it is important to clarify the word “proof.” The idea of proving something to be “true” is a scientific term. To prove means to allow for replication and repeatability. When we speak of God and faith, much like history or a criminal investigation, we speak instead of evidence for belief in God and faith in Christ. Below are five examples of evidence that support the trustworthiness of the Bible. Read Full Answer.

It is true that the Apocrypha and Gnostic Gospels were excluded from the Bible. However, it does not follow that the Bible is a human construct. The question is why they were rejected. Broadly, there are different reasons why people reject certain books. It may be that these books do not reflect reality. For example, the Chinese reject a popular Japanese history book that glosses over the atrocities committed by the Japanese during the second world war. Read Full Answer.

Rather than truth being based on many perspectives, it is more accurate to say that multiple perspectives are needed to understand that one truth. God is an infinite being (He is eternal) therefore no amount of perspectives can describe Him fully, and hence we can admittedly speak of adequate and not exhaustive understanding. And, this adequate understanding is possible because God has revealed who He is to us in His Word, the Bible and through His Son Jesus. Read Full Answer.

“Hearing God’s voice” does not always mean a booming and audible voice being piped into your ears. This ‘still, small voice’ that many  people claim to have heard is essentially the Holy Spirit reminding us of God’s truth in situations where we are faced with an ethical or moral dilemma or perhaps contemplating a difficult decision (2 Timothy 2:7, John 16:13). Read Full Answer.

Jesus expects us to respond to Him as the truth by receiving him and believing in Him (John 1:12, 20:31), and becoming a child of God, on the basis of His perfect life, and death and resurrection in the place of sinners. He calls for us to have ‘childlike faith’ (Matt 18:1-4), modelling ourselves after innocent children not in their immature behaviour but rather in their total dependence and trust of their parents. Read Full Answer.

Explaining  “inconsistencies” is indeed important to our understanding of the Bible. In fact, people use apparent inconsistencies to pass judgment on the whole of the Bible, reasoning if one part is “wrong” then it all is wrong. Yet, we need to understand a bit about the Bible before we jump to this conclusion.

We trust the bible because it is the word of God and, as we read in Titus 1:2, God never lies. Titus 1:9 says that God’s word is trustworthy. 2 Timothy 3:15-17 tells us that all scripture is inspired by God and is able to lead us to salvation and equip us for every good work. God used men to put His holy word into writing, but the effects, intents and meanings of the words all belong to God.

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As I look at this question, I assume it comes from a desire to want others of different faiths to believe in the Christian faith, and there out of a loving and God-fearing conscience. Firstly we would like to say that the bible does not ask us to condemn or belittle other faiths. The bible does ask us to live at peace with everyone, if possible (Romans 12:18), and to honour and obey worldy authorities (Romans 13:1-7). Read Full Answer.

Yes. Jesus is the only way to God. John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Let us see who Jesus claimed to be.

Jesus claimed to be God, the creator of the universe. In the Read Full Answer.

Christians believe Jesus was God because the bible tells us that Jesus is God and even Jesus Himself teaches that He is God.

There are many places in the bible where this claim is made. Most notable Read Full Answer.

Yes, Jesus was God! We know this by a number of ways:

1. Jesus claims to be God. In John 10, the people tried to kill Jesus because they knew He claimed to be God.

2. Jesus was the creator. “All things were made through him, and without him Read Full Answer.

While Christianity teaches that Jesus is the only path to God, this means that other religions also deny the claims of Christianity. The purpose here is not to come to a point where everyone agrees, but rather to discern within the disagreement which claim is true and what to do about it. Read Full Answer.

The true gospel is the good news of a historical event where God sent his Son, Jesus to die for sinners according to the Scripture, and who was buried yet rose again on the third day so that sinners might be saved from their sins, and thereby be reconciled to God as God reconciles the world to himself. Read Full Answer.

Have you ever played a game of Chinese Whispers? This is the game where a number of people stand together in one line. A person whispers some passing information to the person next to him who then continue to pass this information to the next person and so on. At the end of the Read Full Answer.