How I Know The Bible Is God's Word

God gave every man a test by which to discern what God has inspired:

John 7:16-18 NIV
(16) Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from
him who sent me.
(17) If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out
whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
(18) He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself,
but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man
of truth; there is nothing false about him.

1) Obedience: "If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find
out whether my teaching comes from God...". Jesus said the will
and work of God was for men to believe on Jesus Christ as Savior
(John 6:29). One must believe in Christ, to discern what comes
from God (John 6:29; cf. 1 Cor. 2). The natural man finds the
word of God foolish. The obedient believer in Christ knows the
teaching comes from God.

2) Glorify of God, not man: "He who speaks on his own does so to
gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one
who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him."
Christianity is the *only* group which has a body of doctrine
that presents man as a completely meritless sinner, dependent
entirely on the sovereign grace and mercy of God through Jesus
Christ. Every false *religion* has man either not being a
sinner, or somehow helping to atone for his own sins, or in some
way helping God achieve salvation through his own merits or
worthiness.

The Bible, through a series of tests from the garden of Eden, to
the millennial reign of Christ on earth, shows that man, in
whatever circumstances and under whatever economy God places him,
to be unable to reflect God's glory in his own strength, and to
therefore be an entirely meritless sinner, in need of God's
gracious and merciful redemption through Christ's atonement.
Thus, as it says, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord, and no
flesh will glory in God's presence.

Multitudes have believed in Christ, and therefore know the Bible
to be God-inspired teaching which glorifies God, not man.
Believers in Christ don't need the approval of some group of
"scholars" to tell them what is or is not God's word. "Any man"
can know whether the doctrine comes from God, by believing in
Christ as Savior, and seeing how it glorifies God rather than man.

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Have you heard Christ died for our sins, and God raised Him
from the dead? Did you know God saves you from hell and
gives you eternal life through faith in this finished work alone,
not your merits (Jn. 3:16; 1 Cor. 15:1-3; Eph. 2:8-10; 2 Thess.
1:8-9)? This is so man cannot boast, and God alone gets the
glory (Eph. 2:8-9).
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