by Matt Frost

Created on: February 06, 2007   Last Updated: May 17, 2007

The bible can be validated regardless of whether Noah's arc is found. The problem with trying to validate the bible is there are different groups of people. There are people that live by blind faith and believe the bible is the word of God just because. You have people a group of people in academia that are open-minded but skeptical and when you show them scientific proof then they'll buy into it. You have people that are just determined not to believe the bible regardless of the facts or findings. Then you have people that trust the bible, because they have done their own research or because the bible has impacted them personally.

I am an analytical person by nature, I trust in the bible, but there were a lot of questions I had to have answered along the way. I wouldn't say I was skeptical, but I was interested in the authenticity of the bible. There have been no archaeological finds that have contradicted the bible. For a very long time, archaeologists and scientists couldn't find any remains of the Hitites in the bible. The bible was losing steam in the archaeological world, until 15 years ago. The remains of the Hitites were found and yet another part of the bible was authenticated. Of all the books of ancient history, the bible has more supporting documents (manuscripts etc) than any other. The prophesies of the bible, get this, every single one that was supposed to have happened by now did. Consider hundreds of years before Jesus, they said the Savior would come out of Bethlehem, he did. Before crucifixion ever existed the bible claims he would be hung on a piece of wood, he was. The bible claims the saviors bones would never be broken, since He died so quickly on the cross there was no need to break his legs. This list goes on and on, the fact that these things were predicted hundreds of years in advance rules out mere coincidence.

Lastly, you can read Origin of Species, The Art of War, Plato, Aristotle, anything historical, motivational, provocative and what happens when you are done? You feel like you have learned, you might feel a little motivated, or you may feel like you need to reassess what you believe. You may feel a number of things, but what happens when you read the bible as a believer? Your heart changes, you learn, you get motivated, you see things in your life that need to be changed, you see people in your life that you need to reach out to, apologize to, your whole entire life changes. You don't read a chapter in the bible, say "that was pretty neat" then forget about it. It's something that lives in you when you read it. It's something that tugs at your heart, even if you aren't a believer. It shows you where you are and where you need to be. You can throw out all the historical accuracy, you can throw out the documents, the miracles, the prophesies, the bible does more just by reading it, than any other book in the history of mankind. That's something anyone can experience.

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