Is the Bible from God? (Apologetics Part 12)

What reasons and evidence do we have to believe that the Bible is really from God? Our main source of evidence for this is that those people who wrote the Bible, who had messages from God, were able to do miracles to prove or authenticate that their messages were from God. Jesus and His disciples claimed that the Old and New Testaments were from God, and then they did authenticating miracles to back up those claims. However, the Bible is a collection of documents written by human beings, not by God Himself. The doctrine of inspiration tells us how God used human beings to communicate His messages. Even though the Bible is from God, there are two senses in which it can be considered true: it can be true for all major historical events but may have small errors with minor details, or it can be completely correct in all details. This latter sense is called the doctrine of inerrancy, the claim that the Bible contains no errors. Christians believe the Bible is inerrant because God inspired the text of Scripture, and God cannot lie. The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy was written in order to explain what Christians do and don’t mean when they speak about the Bible being inerrant. However, even if we’re wrong about inerrancy, Christianity would still be true, because God still exists and Jesus is still God, even if the Bible contained some minor errors.Show more

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Contents
0:00 Introduction: The Order of Apologetics
7:26 Why Believe the Bible Is from God? Miracles
11:05 Jesus and His Disciples Said the Bible Was from God
17:33 Jesus and His Disciples Did Authenticating Miracles
18:45 How Can the Bible Be from God and Written by Humans?
21:46 Various Methods of Inspiration
31:08 In What Sense Is the Bible True?
37:48 The Bible Only Needs to Be Historically Reliable about Major Events
44:28 A Deductive Argument for Inerrancy
51:19 Common Objections to Inerrancy
1:00:18 The Chicago Statement on Inerrancy
1:04:24 What Inerrancy Does NOT Mean
1:22:26 What about Alleged Errors in the Bible?
1:25:49 What If We’re Wrong about Inerrancy?
1:29:11 Class Logistics