{"id":89864,"date":"2025-08-29T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=89864"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:43:37","slug":"the-bible-alone-is-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-bible-alone-is-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible Alone Is the Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>by Terry Wane Benton<\/p>\n<p>No other book is equal to the Bible. Neither the Quran nor the Book of Mormon equals the Bible in the marks or proofs of divine origin. What convinces me that the Bible alone is God&#8217;s Word? In summary, I would appeal to three areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It <b>claims <\/b>to be the word of God (II Timothy 3:16-17). That claim is important. If it did not claim to be the word of God, then we would have no business making the claim. If it is not what it claims to be, it is a deceptive book for making such a claim.<\/li>\n<li>It <b>seems <\/b>to be the word of God when we consider the history of how it has survived attacks, and how the authors wrote of Israel with no favoritism, exposing a horrible history of them. At the same time, they believed God was still guiding these writings. Usually, men who are writing on their own authority will not paint such a horrible picture of themselves. The Old Testament claims the Jews had prophets of God who were guided to write the unpleasant truth about Israel, all the while the Israelites admit these writings were from God and were the truth.<\/li>\n<li>It <b>proves <\/b>to be the word of God when we consider the many prophecies of the Messiah and the fall of Babylon, the fall of Jerusalem twice. No other book compares in prophetic predictions and accuracy. The chances of one person, Jesus, fulfilling types, shadows, and prophecies are beyond human ability to orchestrate, making the Bible alone a compelling proof of God&#8217;s word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Quran and the Book of Mormon do not hold a candle to the bright, radiant sunshine of the Bible. Holy men of God spoke and wrote as guided by the Holy Spirit (II Peter 1:19). Getting people to honestly consider the evidence is a difficult task. But regardless of whether men will handle the evidence fairly, I hope you will be one of the good and honest hearts that study the evidence to the conclusions that illuminate your mind and heart with the truth of God.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Terry Wane Benton No other book is equal to the Bible. Neither the Quran nor the Book of Mormon equals the Bible in the marks or proofs of divine origin. What convinces me that the Bible alone is God&#8217;s Word? In summary, I would appeal to three areas: It claims to be the word&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":[27],"tags":[37,219],"class_list":["post-89864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-apologetics","tag-bible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":978,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-we-know-the-bible-is-inspired\/","url_meta":{"origin":89864,"position":0},"title":"How do we know the Bible is inspired?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: How do we know absolutely that the Bible is the infallible and inspired Word of God? How did the Bible as we know it today come into existence? Answer: Entire books have been written on the subject of the inspiration of the Bible. It is unlikely that I will\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":32268,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-i-answer-the-claim-that-the-scriptures-have-some-truth-but-cant-be-infallible-because-men-were-involved-in-its-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":89864,"position":1},"title":"How do I answer the claim that the Scriptures have some truth but can&#8217;t be infallible because men were involved in its writing?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I was talking about the inspiration of Scripture with a friend. 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I was told this: \u201cFor instance, I can claim the existence of Spider-Man because he is from Queens, NY, and that is a real\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":33419,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/can-the-bible-prove-itself\/","url_meta":{"origin":89864,"position":3},"title":"Can The Bible Prove Itself?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton Atheists laugh when a Christian uses the Bible to \"prove\" it is the word of God by appeal to the fact that the Bible claims to be the word of God. Of course, it is not just the fact that the Bible claims to be the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24399,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-does-the-bible-have-to-do-with-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":89864,"position":4},"title":"What does the Bible have to do with God?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What does the Bible have to do with God? I've been reading questions and answers on your site, and I really like how you stick with the Bible without adding any opinions that aren't in there. You see, I have a problem, and I was hoping you would be\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":10893,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-orson-pratt-originate-the-idea-that-the-bible-is-unreliable\/","url_meta":{"origin":89864,"position":5},"title":"Did Orson Pratt originate the idea that the Bible is unreliable?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Good morning.\u00a0 Back in the 1800's Mormon Apostle Orson Pratt stated that the Bible is fundamentally unreliable; that it had been mistranslated over the centuries.\u00a0 What I want to know is, \u00a0was this statement by Pratt original with him, or did this kind of claim originate earlier in history?\u00a0\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}