"How do you know for sure that the whole Bible is the word of God?
Faith in Christ comes from the "word of God"! Rom 10:17, "So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Yes, I get what you are saying! I am talking from the word of God and most doesn't believe it to be truth!
Im looking for an answer to the quesiton .. nothing in your first paragraph.
"The "Word of God" is evidence of eternal life, for those that will believe and walk by the word of God. Paul was an apostle born out of due time, he said in Galatians 1:12, "For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ." I never knew George Washington, except from history! But I believe he was President at one time, lol. So why would one not believe when they read "Christ is the only begotten Son of God
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Jesus did signs in the presence of his disciples and this was written in the book of John 20:24-31, that people might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing they might have life through his name.
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Thomas one of the twelve disciples called apostles said: "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe." After Thomas did this he said: "My Lord and my God!" Jesus said: "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed
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Then there were people that didn't believe, who Jesus didn't even brother with, I guess because he knew their hearts. "And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief." Matthew 13:54-58; Mark 6:5-6.
And nothing here either.
"How do you not know that the whole written word of God is truth?
I can not tell you what I do not know, but I can tell you that the Bible is a book written by men. Various men at different periods of time.
If you were to attend a seminary with integrity such as the Missouri Synod (where the go for 8 years and learn Latin, Greek, and Hebrew) ..
They would teach you that things have been added and subtracted from the Bible over the years. There is much "interpolation".
Entire Gospels attributed to Paul were not written by Paul.
So .. If even religious leaders and scholars claim that parts of the Bible are not even written by the men the book is titled after, how the can the "whole Bible" be the word of God ?
Aside from this, there is no way to tell which parts were inspired and which were not.
Then we have the numerous places where the Bible tells the same story in contradictory ways.
Even if we were to take every word of the Bible as inspired . .we are still hooped.
Do we in salvation by faith alone as Paul preaches, or do we believe James when he devotes an entire chapter discouting this religious idea that was around in his time. In James 2 he states "Faith without works is Dead" no less than 3 times.
Do we believe the command of Jesus to "not Judge" "let ye without sin cast the first stone" or do we believe God in the OT when he commands us to kill those who do not abide by his rules or believe in him.
There is no consistent "word of God" in the Bible such one could claim to know what is on God's mind or what his "word" is