![]() In other words, they said “Not only do we believe this, but you do too! You saw this! You were there!” When you do that, you’re on pretty solid ground. On top of that, they appealed to the knowledge of their opponents concerning the truth that they were talking about. I didn’t believe that at first, but I was eventually convinced, and realized that this is the best historical testimony you can get. I would also add that a lot of the Bible was written by eye-witnesses. With the abundance of the manuscripts, and the ability to recreate such a high percentage of a pure text, I concluded that to not accept the Bible’s accuracy would mean becoming a total historical skeptic. ![]() I became convinced that the scrolls are solid, physical evidence that the Old Testament had been recorded accurately. But I found out in all these universities that people were more than willing to share their knowledge with me. Now, you have to realize: I didn’t understand Hebrew and Greek back then, so I had to trust others. I checked out the manuscripts and the scrolls, because if I should show that they were not reliable or significant, then I believed my case was won. I went all throughout England, Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, London, Germany, France, and Switzerland to gather the evidence to show that Christianity was not true. Because of this, I was very bitter, and I took it out on God. Josh McDowell: When I was young and in the university, I was an ornery agnostic-the kind who says “you don’t know, I don’t know, so forget it!” Life was hard, having been homosexually raped for seven years (from six to 13 years old) and growing up with an alcoholic father. How did you become convinced to trust the Bible? While you were a college student, you were an unbelieving skeptic of Christianity and the Bible. ![]() But the Internet is probably one of the main reasons why it’s become more relevant today, because people have more access to the arguments against our faith. ![]() Now, this is also good because it gives us a great opportunity to answer some of these issues, and to use the Internet to make biblical truths clear and to defend them. As a result, the Internet is taking the issues of inspiration, inerrancy-everything-younger and younger and younger, broader, and broader, and broader. But today with the Internet, it has leveled the playing field. Before the Internet, people that oppose everything that an evangelical person would stand for (atheists, agnostics, and skeptics) had very little access to our young people. Josh McDowell: One of the main reasons is the existence and size of the Internet. Are you prepared to answer if a person should ask you why you trust the Bible? Can you articulate how Scripture communicates the very awe, mystery, passion, and power of God? And how God’s Word is living, relevant, reliable, and historically trustworthy?ĭo you believe that God not only used transformative words to bring about the existence of all things, but that he also used words to bring meaning to lives and relationships?īible Gateway interviewed renowned speaker and apologist Josh McDowell ( about his book, God-Breathed: The Undeniable Power and Reliability of Scripture (Barbour, 2015).ĭebate among evangelicals about the inerrancy of the Bible and veracity of Bible stories seems to be more common today than in years past. ![]()
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