While talking with a friend of mine about sports, politics, etc. We got on the discussion of faith, particularly what I believe– Christianity. We’re shooting the breeze and all of a sudden he says with no qualms, “Yea man, the bible is the white man’s book. Religion is used as a tool to control.” Well, of course not letting things like that slide so easy, I asked him a simple question….”why, and do you have any SUBSTANTIAL evidence that proves your position.” Well, of course I got the same ol’ ho hum smoke and screen answers. He pretty much regurgitated all the nonsense that people spew out when they have gripes about the bible.

Something strange happened after that conversation, though. I realized more than usual that the book I live by is taken with a grain of salt. It’s mocked, ridiculed by some who deem it necessary to make non-sensical statements about the Bible…YET, they have no HARD FACTS to back up egregious claims. Also, I felt bad for myself. With the wealth of information out there, I wasn’t prepared to end the conversation the way I wanted to– with facts, facts that I knew, but never studied to be prepared for statements like this.

I took this as a personal challenge to myself to know more about the book I read and to also be able to defend it with the same vitriol that people tear it down with.

I thought I’d do some researching as to why I KNOW the bible is the infallible word of God. I’d be remiss not to do something so that some people don’t have a free pass to bash the Perfect Law, the perfect truth, the Word of God.

Anyway, here are a few Facts that negate and make void a lot of the non sense heard today.

To start, there is A LOT of archeological evidence that points to the validity of the Bible; I’m going to just give a few. This is quick and to the point.

In the book of Deuteronomy 9:18 It speaks of the Lord descending on Mount Sinai

“…the Lord descended on it in fire…”

Not only have archeologist found Mount Sinai by following the almost GPS like map from, what do you know, the Bible, but what can be seen is this black ash on top of the mountain as if the top was scorched by fire.

Nope folks, that is not photoshopped and that is not a shadow; However, if there are still doubts, the Mountain can be seen in real time when you stand infront of it. Or you can take into account the millions of people over the years that have seen the mountain. I’m sure there are the paranoid and conspiracy theory experts out there. To them I’d like to give a hardy…NO. That is non sense for obvious reasons.

Also of interest is the rock found at the base of the mountain.

“…he built an alter in front of the calf..” Exodus 32:5

The edifice stands bout 15 feet high, 16ft across. Judging by the flat surface we can see it was built by man. To boot, pictures of cattle are etched into its side.

“He opened the rock and water flowed out.” —Psalm 105:41

The rock is split from top to bottom, and archeologist say evidence of water erosion is found between the split. They also note that that’s not normal at all. Then again, God doesn’t operate within the confines of normal. He’s God.

“And he took six hundred chosen chariots and captains over every one of them.” Exodus 14:28

This parting of the Red Sea is not anecdotal or allegory. Below is a picture of one of many chariot wheels found at the bottom of the Red sea that look exactly like this one.

Corral usually grows and takes on the the shape of it’s host (the wheel).

Above are just a few of the things that SCIENCE AND HISTORY back up with regard to the bible. Everyday new discoveries are being made that reveal and validate more events that took place in both the old and new testament.

With all this being said the bible is about one man, Jesus Christ.

The bible is a collection of 66 books

written by 40 authors ove a span of 7000yrs

written in three language (Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek)

All the authors wrote about ONE man…Christ, The Messiah. Each foretold something about him hundreds even thousands of yrs before he was born.

There are over 300 scriptures that prophesized about Christ in the Old testament. Every single one of them has been fulfilled.

Scientist and Math nuts alike say the odds of one man fulfilling JUST 8 prophecies written thousands of years before his birth, all being fulfilled is not even possible. Yup, Christ fulfilled 300, best believe everything else that HE has said will come to pass as well.

Ironically, even historical sources OUTSIDE the bible mention Jesus. Atheist historians attest to him as well (Josephus, Tacitus, Phiny, and Suetonius are among the few.

One the New Testament: taken fromhttp://executableoutlines.com/top/reason.htm

As a historical document, it’s evidence is remarkable! a. It was written soon after the events it records 1) As stated by Nelson Glueck, former president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and renowned Jewish archaeologist: “In my opinion, every book of the New Testament was written between the forties and eighties of the First Century A.D.” 2) “We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after 80 A.D.” – W. F. Albright, Biblical archaeologist b. It is noted for its historical accuracy in areas that can be tested 1) “It may be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference.” – Nelson Glueck (noted Jewish archaeologist) 2) “Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy, he is possessed of the true historic sense…in short, this author should be placed along with the greatest of historians.” – Sir William Ramsay c. The manuscript attestation is for the New Testament unsurpassed 1) In the number of copies for the purpose of comparison a) There are over 4,000 Greek manuscripts, 13,000 copies of portions of the New Testament b) Contrast that with other historical documents (Caesar’s “Gallic Wars”, only 10 Greek manuscripts; “Annals” of Tacitus, 2; Livy, 20; Plato, 7; Sophocles, 100) 2) In the time between the originals and earliest copies a) Fragments exist that are within 50-100 years; complete copies that are within 300-400 years after the originals were written b) Compare this with manuscripts of other classical histories: 1/ “Histories of Thucydides” – earliest copy is 1300 years removed from the original 2/ “Histories of Herodotus” – earliest copy is 1350 years removed from the original 3/ Caesar’s “Gallic War” – 950 years 4/ Roman History of Livy – 350 years (and the earliest copy is only a fragment) 5/ “Histories” of Tacitus – 750 years 6/ “Annals” of Tacitus – 950 years (and there are only two manuscripts)

AGAIN, this is not an end all be all note on the bible. The fact of the matter is that a lot of the nonsense that some say about the bible is due to a lack of believers not being knowledgeable on one of our biggest weapons, our greatest asset….I’m also guilty of this.

Anytime a person can say, “yea, all religions are the same, they just take different routes to get to the same god.” and believers just sit there, some even agreeing…that’s a problem PERIOD. No other “religion” says that JESUS IS LORD AND THE ONLY WAY TO GOD.

To end, there is a wealth of information that PROVES the validity of the bible. Books, websites, and many other apologetics that give answers to the more pressing questions that seem to be popular more today..I think it’s time that believers really understand their bibles, what we’re reading so that we won’t come off as easy prey to folks that have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to The word of God.

To the ones that get this and read it who are believers In Christ, lets take a stand against this. The info is out there, I mean seriously, it’s all over the place. To the ones that get this and don’t believe or get mad, hey, I’m not trying to argue and start a debate on this. Any non sense bout “the black man this, the white man is the devil and wrote the bible.” Save it for another person. I don’t want to hear it. I’m just putting this out there.

“Evidence that deserves a verdict,” by former atheist Josh McDowell is a great book on A LOT of information concerning the bible.

I’ll end with the ridulous “well I don’t believe the bible because of fake Christians.” argument with a quote from something I read a while back

“You don’t blame air for lies being transmitted through it. You don’t evaluate the power of love solely on an abusive relationship next door. A real evaluation of truth is not looking at flawed mortal people that make up the Church, but at God.” Stay blessed, peace.

Copyright © 2012 Jeremy Russell