The Bible
No-one would make claim that nothing in the Bible was true and it is acknowledged that many of
details and occurrences are factual.
When Jesus walked the earth, there were no newspapers, TV news programmes or the internet.
All our history is learned from the written words of those who witnessed events or were told
of them by people they knew to be reliable sources. It is unlikely that if Christ were
simply a fabrication, that the stories would have stood the test of time.
Similarly, the Old Testament, going back still farther, details major
events which align with other accepted historical incidents. It is impossible of course to prove
or disprove many of the stories told in terms of the characters or parts of their lives.
A number of incidents have been proven by archaeologists as having happened at the time the events are told in the Bible. The collapse of the walls of Jericho and the burning of the city have both been confirmed as occurring as detailed, at the time noted in Joshua.
The New Testament records four accounts of the life of Jesus, all agreeing on the principle events. If you took any four people and asked them to recall in detail, events they witnessed or had been told about, there would naturally be variances in respect of certain details. These relatively small differences would not however justify ignoring all the other major events on which the different versions agreed. Additionally we have the record of all the healings and miracles performed by Jesus. Can all these be false? If coincidence can be believed to be the reason for some of these happenings, no-one could surely believe that so many incidents could be attributed to repeated coincidence.
There are also many miracles quoted in the Old Testament,
are these also to be considered as fabrication. No-one would similarly suggest
that every event in the Bible is recorded totally accurately. But we know
the approximate whereabouts of the Garden of Eden, which places it in
Southern Iraq from the details of the rivers quoted. We know from
independent sources that there was a Great Flood at approximately the time
of Noah.
There are of course modern day miracles credited to God, Jesus, Mary, etc. which have been investigated and have been validated, using scientific processes. If these things can and do happen now, why could they not have happened earlier?
The Bible contains so much undisputed wisdom that the concept of so much of it's content being false, cannot be tenable. Much of course cannot be proven or unproven and it is a blind faith. But just how blind do you have to be?
