I believe the Bible is the word of God because: God selected men, most who were prophets, to write the Bible for Him (1 Samuel 10:25). A prophet is defined as a "inspired teacher or revealer of the Divine Will; one who foretells future events (Webster's New Dictionary)." God specifically told Jeremiah and several other authors to, "Write in a ... what is written, is what God has said. The human authors actively spoke as well, yet what they said came from God, they were "carried along by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21)." The apostle Paul, author of 12 of the books in the New Testament, was giv...

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There are many different opinions about Jesus Christ. Some say He was just a man or one of the great prophets of old. According to Isaiah a prophet of the Old Testament, "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel". Christ was indeed the son ... ate, he was weary and rested, he was sorrowful and wept, he suffered and dies. In all things he behaved as a man. According to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Simon Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. In many scriptures throughout the...

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