Defending the Bible involves apologetics—which is providing reasoned arguments for its reliability and truth, addressing challenges like historical accuracy, contradictions, and ethical issues. Common tactics are using evidence, logic, tradition, limitations of science, discoveries of archaeology, manuscript studies, and consistent interpretation, while relying on faith and the Holy Spirit for ultimate conviction of sinners that they need a Savior.
Key methods include
evidentialism (miracles, eyewitness accounts), textual analysis (manuscript comparison), and demonstrating the Bible’s best selling status and its transformative power in lives, also often pointing to its internal coherence and fulfilling prophecy as proof.
Demonstrating the Bible's life-changing power through transformed lives serves as powerful testimony.
However, Jesus proclaimed that people do not come to the Light because they love darkness. They enjoy the evil world and refuse to abandon their favorite sins. Atheism or rejecting the Bible has nothing to do with lack of evidence that God exists or that the scriptures are trustworthy.
Sinners hide behind these shields only to protect their carnal arrogance and fleshly lusts from being deconstructed and forsaken. They like to think they are too scientific or reason based to accept anything supernatural. But the psychological truth goes far deeper. To engage in rational combat against these superficial fortresses will do very little good.
John 3:19,20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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