More Reasons to Believe that the Bible is

the Inspired Word of God

Anywhere we go there would always be people who doubt if the Bible is, indeed, an inspired
book, or if it was really made by the inspiration of God.

Definitely, the Bible is inspired by God. In fact, the Bible calls itself as an inspired book. In the
Greek Bible, the word inspiration is theopneustos, which means divinely breathed in. Meaning
there is a divine breath that blessed the Bible as a book.

In 2 TIMOTHY 3:16, it says,

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness:

The Apostle Paul was explaining to Timothy that all manuscripts and scriptures existing during
their time were inspired by God; they were given by the inspiration of God. And because they
were inspired by God, it follows that they had His approval, too. If they were God-approved, it
means that the Bible contains divinely approved truths, truths which no man could ever disprove.
The truth in the Bible stands firmly on the ground, and it cannot be shaken by human wisdom.

For more than five decades of my ministry, I have met so many unbelievers of the Bible. I had
even come across atheists who do not believe in God. But as I explained to them my basis in
believing the Bible, they were eventually converted and they got convinced that the Bible really
came from God. Actually, there is no other book on earth that is inspired by God except the
Bible or the Holy Scriptures.

The scriptures that were used by the Israelites, the first century Christians, had been preserved to
reach our time. There are copies of the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, which was written in the third
century of our common era. They were the oldest manuscripts written in Greek which dates back
to the third century. We also have the Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex Vaticanus, the Codex
Washingtonianus, the Codex Alexandrinus, and many other codexes, which had been written by
hand, as early as the third and fourth centuries, by people who wanted to preserve the word of
God. That time, the printing machine had not been invented yet so they were all written by hand.
Today, those manuscripts are being housed in different libraries of the world.
The Bible is divinely inspired; it contains evidences that prove that it came from a Superior
Being, and not just from ordinary humans like us. It speaks of truth which nobody could refute.
To prove this, let me cite you some examples.

In the early part of human history, people used to believe that the earth was flat. But, about 2,600
years ago, it was already written in the Bible that the earth is round.

ISAIAH 40:22 says,

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, . . .

The Bible tells us that there is a circle of the earth, and God sitteth upon that circle of the earth.
Therefore, as early as 2,600 years ago, the Bible had provided us the information that the earth is
spherical in shape. However, humans realized that it was really round, and not flat, only when
Apollo 11, a spacecraft from the USA, took a picture of the earth from outer space. The picture
taken by Apollo 11 became a physical evidence that gives confirmation to what had been spoken
in the book of the prophet Isaiah that the earth is spherical. This only proves that the Bible is an
inspired book of God, and the Bible tells us of things long before they are discovered by men.
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The Bible also tells of a tunnel that was constructed during the time of King Hezekiah of Israel;
it was constructed before the time of the Lord Jesus Christ. Very recently, it was discovered that
such a tunnel really exists, and the walls of the tunnel bear the names of the people who were
responsible in its construction. This, again, proves that the Bible is a divine book inspired by
God.
During the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, when He was talking with the Jews, He mentioned of a
coin. He asked them as to whose image was engraved on the coin, and to Him they answered, it
was the Roman emperor’s. Lately, they discovered such coins in Samaria and other parts of the
Middle East, and the coins, indeed, bore the inscription of the images of Augustus Caesar and
Tiberius Caesar, the Roman emperors that reigned during the lifetime of our Lord Jesus Christ
here on earth. Proving the correctness of the account in the book of Matthew wherein Christ was
being asked if it was lawful to give tribute to Caesar. The Lord Jesus Christ answered, Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are
God's. (Matthew 22:21).

Samples of coins that circulated during the time of the Lord Jesus Christ that had been unearthed
by archeologists, even a sample of the coin, or mite, that was given by the widow to the treasury
in order to help (Mark 12:42), are physical evidences that prove the veracity of those biblical
accounts. And they further prove that the Bible was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Now, how do we convince the non-believers to believe in our God?

The God of Christians is real. The God of Christians is attested by His creations. If only the non-
believers would use their common sense, they would be left without a choice except to believe in
the existence of Somebody who created everything.

ROMANS 1:19-20 says,

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto
them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse:

This is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It is very much inspired by God’s spirit, and
nobody can disprove the truthfulness of the verse. How do we understand the existence of
God? Being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead so
that they are without excuse. Nobody can excuse himself for not believing in God. All that he
needs to do is to look at His creations, and from them, he will be able to understand God’s
existence and eternal power.

One of God’s creations is the sun. The sun is the supplier of heat and light to the earth, according
to Genesis 1:14-17. How do we prove God’s eternal power through the sun? If you are going to
burn a forest to produce fire, you may probably have fire for a week. After a week, the forest will
be consumed, and then the heat, the light, and the fire would be gone.

On the other hand, the sun had been there for billions of years, yet it is never consumed. It does
not grow smaller, instead, its tendency is to grow bigger when it becomes a red giant, according
to science. The question is, how does the sun maintain its power? It is through the understanding
of God; it is through His wisdom.

Nowadays, man already has an idea on how the sun works. There is what we call the nuclear
power in the sun, the power of the nucleus of the atom. Sometime ago, we thought that the atom
is the smallest part of the cell but very recently, science had discovered that there are even
smaller parts of the atom. And scientists even say that the atom is also a universe by itself. The
atom is found to be a very big entity. Although the atom is very, very small, there are even
smaller particles in it such as the nucleus, the protons, the neutrons, etc. It is the collision of the
parts of the atom that produces what we call nuclear energy. And that is exactly what is
happening in the surface of the sun. That is why the sun is never consumed even after producing
heat and giving off light to earth for billions of years.

The sun is an example of the eternal power of God. It displays the enormous and inexhaustible
power of its Creator. Billions of years had passed in the history of the sun but until now it is not
consumed. And according to scientific studies, the sun is still capable of giving off heat and light
to earth for the next five billion years.

Actually, even by just observing and analyzing the things around us, even our own physique, we
will not doubt the eternal power of our Creator. If you will look closely at your hands, at your
fingers, you will discover the great wisdom of that Somebody who created them. Our fingers are
not of equal lengths and sizes, but the moment they are going to perform their function, like
picking up or holding something, you will realize that no finger is superior or inferior. Each
finger is important. And they work in harmony with each other, regardless of their length and
size.

How about our fingernails? They have their function also. When a part of your body is itchy, the
fingernails would scratch it, and you are relieved of the itch.

But the most marvelous thing about our hands is that, it serves as our identification.

JOB 37:7 says,

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
In the science of fingerprinting, Galton, a pioneer in the study of fingerprints, said that there are
no two fingerprints that are the same in this planet. There are now more than seven billion people
that inhabit the earth, and not two of them are with the same fingerprints, not even the Siamese
twins.

These are but some of the overwhelming evidences that prove how God’s eternal power is
manifested in His creations.

Convincing the unbelievers to believe in God wouldn’t be that difficult. All that they need to do
is to look closely at the things around them, at the marvelous relationship of the things in nature,
at the vast universe, and even at the manner their own physiques had been fashioned. If they
would only be true to themselves they will surely acknowledge that a very intelligent Creator is
behind all these. And instead of doubting His existence, they would surely revere Him and
believe in Him.

Understanding all these would give them more than enough reasons to believe in the Almighty
God of Christians – our God. I am a Christian, and I am proud to be one. TO GOD BE THE
GLORY!