This Super Person, God, revealed His actual personal name to Moses with the Hebrew consonants equivalent to YHWH. Scholars believe the original pronunciation was Yah'-weh, or Yahweh. A few hundred years ago this was mistakenly translated to Jehovah. In most modern Bibles, YHWH is mistranslated as "the LORD."
YHWH has given us His holy, written Word, what we call the Bible. The Bible consists of what Christians call the Old Testament, or what Jews call the Tenach, and the New Testament. Both comprise His revealed Word, considered inerrant by thousands of scholars throughout the world and throughout history.
The Bible was physically written by different humans, but it only has one Author, God Himself, who guided the thoughts and writing of those humans, His servants. Of this there can be no doubt, for the reasons stated below.
How do we know the Bible is true and from God, say, compared with other religious books that are claimed to be sacred? How do we know it can be trusted as a message from the Creator and not just a nice book full of nice religious platitudes? The evidence is overwhelming, and conclusive!
There are at least eight main reasons why we know that the Bible is from God.
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Proof from its supernatural uniqueness among all books ever written.
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Proof from archeology.
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Proof from prophecy, or the accurate prediction of future events.
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Proof from its ownunique, internal claim of flawless inspiration.
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Proof from Jesus Christ Himself.
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Proof from science. (Yes, I said science!)
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Proof from mathematics. (This will blow your mind.)
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Proof from its impact on people and the world.
Finally, there is the amazing "Factor X," I will tell you about.