Is the Bible truly God’s Word?

Is the Bible truly God’s Word? How can we know that the Bible is the Word of God? Why should I believe that the Bible is God's Word?

[charlotte-rksc]

Thank you for this video! Sometimes the doubts creep in, so it's a good reminder of how true His word is, and how Faithful He forever will be. Praise the Living God!!

[KingNazaru]

I’ve seen many people, even my friends try to discredit the Bible and turn me away from Christianity, but I still believe in Jesus Christ and acknowledge him as my savior.

[janderson]

For someone the thought that the Bible isn’t final say in terms of faith have been infecting my mind. It has led me to doubt and question the Bible, thinking I must do more in order to be saved. I pray that God transforms my mind to know that the writings are the inspired word of God

[Red]

I was doubting a lot lately about if God was really real. I have been researching a lot on got questions and finally found this video which totally brought me back to God. I was just wanting satan to stop whispering in my ear and find true evidence that the Bible is real. It’s just so crazy that there’s really a God out there, it’s so crazy that your Creator is right there next to you the whole time. Part of my doubt was that it just didn’t make sense that He’s been existing forever and will always exist and it just hurts my brain to think about it. But I know that it’s not supposed to make sense and I just need to trust him.

[romapervaiz.]

No doubts that the Bible is authoritative, unfailing and inspired word of God .

[chaseworrell]

Psalm 137:9 KJV
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the stones.

[jeantsen]

1:21 I think the narrator might have meant Paul's commendation* to Timothy instead of "condemnation" when he was about to quote 2 Tim 3 verses 15-17.

[kierenelphick]

Part 3 Continued:

Two hundred [Ezra 2:65]
Two hundred and forty-five [Nehemiah 7:67]

15- How many singers accompanied the assembly?

Ezra was written no later than 450 B.C.1 Nehemiah should be dated during the reign of Artexerxes 1 (464-423 B.C.).2 According to the book, “Talk Thru the Bible, ” Ezra was written about 538-516 B.C.3 where Nehemiah was written around 444-425 B.C.4 Therefore, the dates of writing are different and the statistical differences can easily be accounted for by considering that during the difference of years, people died, families grew, etc.

Seventy souls [Genesis 4 & 27]
Seventy-five souls [Acts 7:14]

16- How many members of the house of Jacob came to Egypt? This so-called discrepancy is at once removed by noticing that the one passage speaks of Jacob's "kindred, " the other of those "which came out of his loins."

700 chariots [2 Samuel 10:18]
7000 chariots [1 Chronicles 19:18]

17- How many chariots David destroys? A popular answer to this difficulty may be sought by pointing out that the Hebrew characters for 700 and 7000 are so similar that it is very difficult to distinguish between them, and that the soldiers were, at the same time, footmen and horsemen - that is, they were mounted infantry. However, if the passages are put together they will be found to fit into each other so neatly as to remove all difficulties. It will be at once observed that the 700 chariots were brigaded with the cavalry and the 7000 with the infantry.

In ancient times there were two classes of war-chariots (as with modern artillery), i.e. light and heavy. In these verses the light chariots accompany the cavalry, the heavy, the infantry; and it will be observed that the proportion of the one to the other is as one to ten. Competent military critics are of the opinion that this proportion of one to ten is the proportion that should be observed by a modern general when requisitioning light and heavy artillery for an expeditionary force; the light artillery being attached to the cavalry, the heavy, to the infantry.

Adding, therefore, the two bodies of men and war-chariots together, an army appears proportionate to the territory from where it was drawn, that is - 80, 000 men with 7, 700 chariots - the total force being divided into two brigades of equal strength as to the personnel but unequal as to the artillery: that is, a cavalry brigade of 40, 000 men with 700 light chariots, and an infantry brigade of the same number of men, but with 7, 000 chariots.

18 cubits [1 Kings 7:15]
35 cubits [2 Chronicles 3:15]

18- How many cubits were temple pillar built? These are different types of measurements. 2 Chronicles is a summary of 1 Kings, which provides more details (more measurements).

In 1 Kings 7.15:

He cast the two pillars out of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of the first, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar.

"height" here is "qomath" and refers to vertical height, or size (sometimes also depth).

In 2 Chron 3.15:

And at the front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on their top was five cubits.

"high" here is "orekh" and refers to length, or extension and is never used to mean "height". The issue here is we don't know exactly which conventions were being used to a assign a single number to a circular column, but the most popular guess is that it was circumference + height.

The pillar had a circumference of 12 cubits ("a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar.").

total height + circumference = (18 for column + 5 for capital) + 12 = 35. This is a summary measurement of the "length" of a three dimensional object, whereas in 1 Kings, we actually get the measurements in each dimension (including the circumference).

Of course this popular interpretation could be wrong, and there might have been a different convention used by the Chronicler to assign a single number to the "length" of a pillar, but what we do know is that 2 Chronicles summarizes the total length (in all dimensions) whereas 1 Kings provides the measurements in each dimension.

[BatMite]

So thankful that God has put me in a country where the Bible is legal to read, and easily available in my language! Please, let's work to keep it that way!

[kierenelphick]

Part 1:

I've had to address a serious matter that I've seen in the comments as eFootball Mania has attempted to destroy people's faith in God's precious word. I've provided answers to his so-called contradictions and I pray that it will ensure God's people that you can indeed be sure there are no contradictions in the Bible as he erroneously claimed. He would also know this if he was truly seeking, but it seems apparent that his intentions was the opposite, as he chose not only to post this nonsense, but also to spam it to every God-loving comment in the list of comments. 2 Timothy 2:15 "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a worker who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth." (I've had to break this rebuttal down into parts as 9, 500 characters is the maximum for YouTube comments unfortunately!).

Here's the answers below:

eFootball Mania's so-called contradictions:
Part 1
eFootball Mania
1 month ago
Clear Numerical Contradiction in the Bible:

600 [1 Chronicles 21:25]
50 [2 Samuel 24:24]

1- On how many shekels of gold David brought threshing floor? The difficulty is removed by observing that the smaller sum was paid for the "threshing-floor and the oxen, " upon which the threshing floor stood. The total price paid, therefore, for the whole piece of ground, with the threshing-floor and the oxen, was six hundred shekels of gold and fifty shekels of silver.

Seven [2 Samuel 24:13]
Three [1 Chronicles 21:12]

2- How many years of famine? (2 Samuel 21) records a three years famine as a judgement from God upon the nation because of its conduct towards the Gibeonites. When God offered three additional years of famine to David, He did so in the year intervening between these two periods, so that there would be seven years threatened. If David had elected these three years, there would, therefore, have been in fact, seven such years. There is no difficulty in believing that the prophet mentioned both periods to the king. The accuracy of Scripture is here demonstrated in that it is 2 Samuel which mentions the three years of famine that preceded David's numbering of the people, and that it is the same book which threatens the larger number of years of famine. On the other hand, 1 Chronicles, not relating the three years of famine in connection with the Gibeonites, appropriately, therefore, records the shorter period. Further, the actual wording of the two passages is interesting. 2 Samuel 24:13 "Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land?" But, 1 Chronicles 21:12 "either three years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the LORD—the plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel." The expression, therefore, "come to you in your land" harmonises with the foregoing argument; for it asks David if the country is to suffer such a lengthy period of famine, whilst the wording in 1 Chronicles accords with the suggestion that the king was to "take" three additional years of misery to the wretchedness already suffered.

12 [2 Kings 8:25]
11 [2 Kings 9:29]

3- In which year did Ahaziah began to reign? The supposed error of one year between 2 Kings 8:25 and 2 Kings 9:29, is removed by joining the two passages, and so making it clear, that Ahaziah began to reign as associate king with his father in the eleventh year of king Jehoram of Israel, and as sole monarch in the following year.

Twenty-two [2 Kings 8:26]
Forty-two [2 Chronicles 22:2]

4- How old was Ahaziah when he began to rule over Jerusalem? (2 Chronicles 22:2) states, that Ahaziah was 42 years of age when he began to reign; 2 Kings 8:26 gives his age as twenty-two. The statements are reconciled by the words being added in 2 Chronicles 22:3 "He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother (Athaliah) was his counsellor to act wickedly." (emphasis added). Athaliah was the great-grand-daughter of Omri, and her family was 42 years of age, for Omri began to reign in 832 BC, and forty-two years later, that is 790 BC, Ahaziah ascended the throne. As representing the house of David he was twenty-two years old; as that of representing Omri, forty-two. The two ages express the distinction in him physically and morally. He was the agent of the forty-two year old house of Omri, but he was a willing and responsible agent, and hence justly credited with the age of that family.

Eighteen [2 Kings 24:8]
Eight [2 Chronicles 36:9]

5- How old was Jehoiachin when he became king of Jerusalem? Jehoiachin’s age in 2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9 is that 2 Chronicles records Jehoiachin’s age when he was appointed co-regent with his father, and 2 Kings records Jehoiachin’s age when, after his father’s death, he became king in his own right. Other kings also used co-regents. David appointed Solomon king while David was still alive (1 Kings 1:33-40), and, when Uzziah was afflicted with leprosy, his son Jotham became co-regent (2 Chronicles 26:21). While there is no specific mention of a co-regency in regards to Jehoiachin, this is a plausible explanation for the difference between 2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9.

Three months [2 Kings 24:8]
Three months and ten days [2 Chronicles 36:9]

6- How long did he rule over Jerusalem? There are at least two reasonable explanations that would resolve this alleged contradiction;2 Kings 24:8 is rounding to the nearest month or there was a copyist error:

1. 2 Kings 24:8 is Rounding to the Nearest Months:
The most probable explanation for the difference between 2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9 is that 2 Kings 24:8 is simply rounding to the nearest month, while 2 Chronicles 36:9 gives a more precise length of time.

2. Copyist error:

If the discrepancy in duration is due to a copyist error. We can see that the difference in time is 10 days. The system of number notation used by the Jews at the time of Ezra consisted of horizontal hooks that represented decades, or “tens.” would equal the number 14 where would be 24. If one or both of the hooks were smudged or flaked off of a papyri, then the dates would be off by a value of ten. Therefore, most probably, the correct value was three months and ten days since the hook could easily have flaked off in a copy.
Does this mean the Bible is not trustworthy? Not at all. Inspiration is ascribed to the original writings and not to the copies. Scribes made errors. However, the errors were very infrequent and from other information in the Bible, we can easily ascertain what the correct age is.

Eight hundred [2 Samuel 23:8]
Three hundred [I Chronicles 11: 11]

7- How many men David killed at one time?

A. Sceptic: This is a simple, irreconcilable, and inexplicable “error” that undermines the authority and integrity of Scripture.
For sceptics the purpose of pointing out such passages does not come from real interest in understanding this passage but in gaining a foothold for rejecting the teaching of the Bible altogether (existence of God, the moral law, the claims of Christ, etc.).

B. Liberal/Mainline Evangelical: Capitulation to modern critical scepticism.
Example:
MacArthur’s Study Bible note on 2 Samuel 23:8 on the “800”: “Probably a textual error. 1 Chronicles 11:11 has “three hundred”, the likely number (p. 463).

III. Faithful analysis (harmonization):

Note:
1. Those who faithfully collected the OT books were not fools. They would have been aware of this difference but saw no appalling contradiction in incorporating both.

2. Reasonable explanations can be found. See the comments of Matthew Poole at 1 Samuel 23:8: “Object. But this man is said to have slain only three hundred in 1 Chron xi.11…..” He offers three alternatives:

a. Refers to two different battles.

b. He slew 300 personally and 500 more via his men, for a total of 800.

c. Refers to two different men: father and son.

[amadusiesay]

Thank you for your videos man your videos help me to answer the most difficult questions about Christianity and also gave me an understanding of the word of god keep doing the good work god bless you in the name of jesus christ amen🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️😎😎🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏

[kouadiohervekoffi]

25 But if it is question of a case of adultery with a married man or woman, the brother or the sister will go first to the spouse of that person and will ask him for forgiveness before coming to confess in the congregation. But if the brother or the sister is married, he will first confess to his spouse, then he will be accompanied by a witness, besides his spouse, towards the other couple. And it is after these steps that he will come and confess in the congregation. And I tell you that this is a commandment of the Lord, a revelation of Jesus-Christ for this generation. [Ed: The congregation says, “Amen!”].

27 It is not because we are strong that we follow this Message, but with the help and the grace of God, like Joshua and Caleb, we say by faith that we can! Let’s just praise Him! Let’s sing and praise his Name! Amen!

28 God dwells in holiness and the angels shout day and night, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord”. If you love holiness and sanctification, you will not reject the public confession. If you are a child of God, because of the public confession, you will say, “O God! If I had come across this Message since my childhood, I wouldn’t have lived a bad life, there are sins that I would have never committed.” For a child of God, the public confession is a gift from God and the elect say Amen to that.


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[johnnemeth]

Jesus open their eyes and heart to the Truth of God's Holy Word the Bible in Jesus name I pray Amen 🙏

[Sumtingwongbruh]

I don’t understand why I still doubt when I know it is. The word of God

[akeerana]

1. Bible is in Cognac Greek, Did Jesus ever spoke that language?
2. 2 Timothy 3:15-17 is this Paul words or God's words?
3.. Unity: is there any difference between Protestant and Catholic bible chapters?
4. Luke 3:23 vs Mathew 1:16 Does lineage is same accordingly name and number of the lineage personal?

[Rivenworld]

I accept what is being said but why were so many books excluded from the current Bible and why are things different in context between translated versions?

[danutorres]

Please post these kind of videos in your Facebook page so I can share it from there. Thank you.

[matthewrenee]

The unity of the Bible is said to be because of how it was compiled since men got rid of books that "didn't fit"... What is our answer to that?

[ablahday]

God is so good! Thanks for sharing this

[willielee]

@God's Word. Did the bible say the Israelites would return to the land of Israel as stated in the book Isaiah.
God bless you on your journey!!!