The Bible Is More Reliable Than Most Historical Documents

Why I believe the Bible

Meghan Madness
6 min readAug 3, 2024
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The best way to explain the authenticity of the Bible being a reliable source of historical documents. Most of this is taken from personal opinions on a sermon by Voddie Baucham.

I implore you to put all of your biased opinions aside when reading this.

Why believe the Bible as opposed to other sacred books?

How can you hope in the Bible unless there is an absolute confidence in what it promises? Claiming the Bible “says so” isn’t a sufficient answer unless the Bible is actually the correct and authoritative source. These are some of many legitimate questions and objections revolving around the trustworthiness of the Bible.

I want to provide you with a concise response that begins to answer and clarify why you should believe the Bible. These points are taken from a lecture by Voddie Baucham, and I’ll just provide a brief summary of some of the points that were made.

I believe the Bible because…

It’s a reliable collection of historical documents:

The Bible was written on 3 different continents, in 3 different languages, by more than 40 different authors from many different walks of life, containing 66 volumes with hundreds of

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Meghan Madness

I Write about controversial subjects. Typically Religious.