Is the Bible truly reliable?
Other forms of this question are: “Human beings wrote the Bible, so there must be errors in it,” and “Aren’t there some pretty far-fetched stories and ideas in the Bible, like resurrections, a man being swallowed by a fish, future revelations, etc.?” The introduction to the answer is to say that while almost everybody has an opinion about the Bible, almost none of them has actually read all of it, let alone studied it carefully. Much of the criticism of the Scriptures voiced in society today comes from people who are repeating second or third-hand comments or opinions. A critic of any book should never reject that book unless he or she has personally read the book and has looked into the book to understand the book’s purpose. The Bible has a two-fold purpose: to reveal God to the person who is reading it, and to assist that reader in beginning and building a personal relationship with God (John 20:30-31). There are, indeed, some very powerful reasons for trusting in the reliability of
