{"id":31962,"date":"2012-02-27T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=31962"},"modified":"2021-02-12T21:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T03:38:38","slug":"how-can-i-be-sure-that-the-bible-is-fully-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-can-i-be-sure-that-the-bible-is-fully-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I be sure that the Bible is fully correct?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m a teenager wanting to know the truth, so please help me out. How can I be sure that the Bible is fully correct? I mean people must have added or taken out scriptures to try to confuse us. How can I know what religion is correct? I know I have to have faith, but in what? I do believe in God, but there are a lot of religions.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Faith is what you trust is true after looking at all the evidence. I&#8217;ve never been to Australia, but I trust that Sydney exists because I find the evidence reliable. If I ever did go there, it would no longer be a matter of faith because I would have direct evidence. We do this so often in life that we don&#8217;t often think about it, except in major things.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you conclude that people\u00a0<em>must<\/em>\u00a0have altered the Bible? What evidence leads you to that conclusion? I&#8217;ve looked at the evidence (see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/can-we-trust-the-text-of-the-bible\/\">Can We Trust the Text of the Bible?<\/a>), so I&#8217;m fairly sure you don&#8217;t have evidence that it was altered. In other words, you are acting on faith based on what someone else told you (faith-based on weak or non-existent evidence). I can&#8217;t make you have faith in the Bible or anything else. I can only present the evidence and encourage you to trust what the evidence points to.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, I have looked at other religions. Consistently the evidence points that they are frauds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>&#8220;Present your case,&#8221; says the LORD. &#8220;Bring forth your strong reasons,&#8221; says the King of Jacob. &#8220;Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together. Indeed you are nothing, and your work is nothing; he who chooses you is an abomination<\/em>&#8221; (Isaiah 41:21-24).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I&#8217;m a teenager wanting to know the truth, so please help me out. How can I be sure that the Bible is fully correct? I mean people must have added or taken out scriptures to try to confuse us. How can I know what religion is correct? I know I have to have faith,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[568,219,49],"class_list":["post-31962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-accuracy-of-the-bible","tag-bible","tag-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37081,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-can-i-be-100-sure\/","url_meta":{"origin":31962,"position":0},"title":"How can I be 100% sure?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am starting to build more faith but I am still not 100% sure that God exists. \u00a0I go to church and everything and I feel terrible to admit this. \u00a0How can I be 100% sure? \u00a0Are you 100% sure? \u00a0Will I ever get there? \u00a0I'm just scared that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35801,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-can-i-figure-out-the-truth-when-so-many-people-disagree\/","url_meta":{"origin":31962,"position":1},"title":"How can I figure out the truth when so many people disagree?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: This is part of the problem I've been having: If something is part of the Old Law then why don't Jews today try to make homosexuality a death penalty in places like Florida, Israel, or anywhere there's a large Jewish population? It is this inconsistency between people and what's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17496,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-you-not-doubt-that-god-exists\/","url_meta":{"origin":31962,"position":2},"title":"How do you not doubt that God exists?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I do not mean this in any sort of sacrilegious way, but - here it is - how do you know God exists? Maybe this life is all there is. How do you\u00a0know\u00a0otherwise? Now, let me say I am not a stranger to Christianity. When I was in college,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48884,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/dealing-with-doubt\/","url_meta":{"origin":31962,"position":3},"title":"Dealing with Doubt","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Download Audio Text: John 20:19-31 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is it wrong to have doubts? When those moments come when you wonder if God really exists or you run across an idea that makes you wonder if you really understood the Bible correctly, have you sinned? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Look at characters\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17775,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-i-convince-my-brother-that-the-bible-is-complete\/","url_meta":{"origin":31962,"position":4},"title":"How do I convince my brother that the Bible is complete?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I was discussing baptism with my brother. He knows he needs to be baptized, but he doesn't have confidence in the Bible. 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