How May We Know There Is a God?

Many claim there is no God. Others say there is a God but he is unknowable. Some will go only as far as saying there may be a God. Some think there are a myriad of gods and that we mortals can become gods. There are theists, deists, pantheists, polytheists, atheists, monotheists, agnostics, and the confused, who honestly don't know what to believe.

The Bible is the written revelation of God. It is god's letter to the human race. The Bible tells us about God. It does not tell us all about him, but it tells us enough to authenticate the fact that there is a God. Some things about God can be known through nature, as well. The Apostle Paul informs us that through nature we may ascertain the divinity of God because we can see his power and his handiwork.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” Romans 1:18-20

The Bible is the only book which God himself has given to mankind. It contains all that is necessary for us to know concerning salvation, life after death, how to live a life pleasing to God, and about God himself.

Other faiths and religions have their own holy books. None of them is self-authenticating. All of them disagree with and fall short of the Bible in expression, in morals, in ethics. None of them faithfully reveals the one transcendent and immanent God of the Bible.

There are those who raise objections to the Christian view of the Bible. One group, for instance, says, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly." However, they don't seem able to point out the incorrectly translated parts.

Is the Bible translated incorrectly? Dr. Richard Lloyd Anderson of Brigham Young University says: “It is easy to get lost in debate on details and fail to see the overwhelming agreement of all manuscripts to the historical record of the New Testament gives every reason to assume a fairly stable transmission of the documents we possess. Similarly, we can state the same for the Old Testament.”

The United Bible Societies has documented every difference between the extant Greek manuscripts. The oldest extant text of the entire Hebrew scriptures is the Leningrad manuscript, dating back to A.D. 1009 or 1008. The accuracy of this manuscript has been confirmed by comparing it with portions of the Hebrew scriptures, especially the prophecy of Isaiah, found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Among all the variants there are no substantial differences nor any changes affecting the Christian faith. We may safely conclude, based on objective evidence, the Holy Bible is a reliable revelation pointing us to Almighty God, the Creator of the Universe.