Reason #1 To Trust The Bible
Over the course of the next several blogs we are going to take a look at different reasons why we can trust the Bible. To start, here is reason #1.
1. Fulfilled Prophecies
Several times throughout the Bible we see the authors somehow predicting the future. Often times, it would be hundreds of years in advance before it came true. The Bible is filled with hundreds of specific detailed prophecies about people, places, and events. Many of these prophecies have already been fulfilled. Here are several of them regarding Jesus:
- He was to be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14)
- Born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2)
- Born into the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10)
- Born of the seed of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3 & 22:18)
- Born into the lineage of David (2 Sam 7:12)
- Arrive while the temple is still standing (Malachi 3:1)
- He will open the eyes of the blind, heal the deaf, and cause the lame to walk (Isaiah 35::5-6)
- He would be rejected by his own people (Psalm 118:22)
The Bible also somehow foretold the exact time in history He would die (Daniel9:24-26), how He would die (Psalm 22:16-18, Isaiah 53), and that He would rise from the dead (Psalm 16:10, Isaiah 53).
Check out this statistic:
The Old Testament of the Bible was completed 400 years before Jesus’ birth. It contains 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus’ life. (www.alwaysbeready.com)
No other book or author has been able to predict so many things with 100% accuracy. It’s hard to ignore the fact the Bible is a special book that tells the truth, even hundreds of years before things take place.
A math wiz came up with this calculation. The chances that someone would fulfill just 8 of these prophecies are 1 in 1o to the 17th power….That’s one in 100 quadrillion! (taken from Peter Stoner’s book, Science Speaks, chapter 3)
With those odds, and that many fulfilled prophecies, it’s hard NOT to trust the Bible. Fulfilled prophecies is something that sets the Bible apart from every other book ever written by man. The Bible is truly God inspired!
Associate Pastor Ryan Singleton
ryansingleton77@gmail.com