Bible 201—Is This Really the Truth?

The Bible is an incredible book, but if you're new to Jesus, you're bound to ask the question, "is this actually true?"

Here is our church's official belief on the Bible: The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.

As Shelby explains, there are four reasons we trust that the Bible is God’s Word and that it is true:

1. The Textual Testimony—No other work in all literature has been so carefully studied than scripture. What we see is a document that has been painstakingly preserved through the ages by people who treated it with great reverence.

2. The Historical Testimony—The Bible is a historical book, that has not once been disproven by our study of history. From the Smithsonian Institute. “…in particular the historical books of the old testament, are as accurate historical documents as any that we have from antiquity and are in fact more accurate than many of the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, or Greek histories…These Biblical records can be and are used as are other ancient documents in archeological work. For the most part, historical events described took place and the peoples cited really existed.”

3. The Prophetic Testimony—There are over 700 prophesies in scripture with more than two-thirds that have been fulfilled and some with such detail that the writer would had to have seen the events themselves before writing about them.

4. The Personal Testimony—Test the Word for yourself! Ask those around you how they’ve seen the Bible be truth in their own lives.

TRY THIS: Take some time and listen to a sermon from our Lead Pastor, Daniel Norris, called "Rooted: Planted in Truth 2.0" (don’t worry you can multitask while you listen). You can search for this on YouTube or on GraceWorld's website.

PRAY THIS: God, help your Word come to life. I want to understand it more. Help me to desire to read the Bible more and to learn ways I can be better through your Word. Amen.