BIBLICAL THINKING RESOURCES

Any truth claim should be tested. The type of test needed depends upon the type claim being made. Some scientific claims can be mathematically or experimentally verified as either true or false. Historical claims can also be verified, but not with the same means as a scientific claim is tested. Instead, historic claims are tested by eye-witness testimony, or in the case ancient history – ancient records, archaeology, ancient coins/maps/art/literature/songs, as to whether the claim is true or false. Spiritual claims, like all phenomenological claims, can be tested can be tested by experiences. The Bible makes scientific, historical, and spiritual (theological, religious, supernatural) claims. These claims can be tested. The Bible claims to be the Word of God. For this claim to be true, we would expect that the Bible would display the hallmarks of being inspired by GOD, and the confidence that it does. Consider the following evidence: (i) The Bible claims to be the Word of God; (ii) Despite the Lord using around 40 authors on three different continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) over a period of several thousand years, the Bible presents a coherent, consistent, clear, vision of God and His plan of redemption; (iii) The Bible’s historical and scientific claims can be verified as true; and (iv) The Bible records prophecies about the future – often with time-frames for their fulfilment, particularly about the coming of the Christ, and these can be proven to have been fulfilled…[WATCH]