At the beginning of each year my wife and I, like most Christians devote the 1st 21 days to fasting, praying, and calling out to God. During that time this year I found myself asking why do I believe the Holy Bible to be true. I know the answer, but the crazy part is I can never verbalize it well. One day a youtube notification popped up on my phone titled “Why I believe the Bible” by Dr. Voddie Baucham. At first I said to myself “I know why I believe” so next please, then the video came across my screen again. At that point Was like “ok God I’ll watch it” and I’m so glad I did, because they way Dr. Baucham broke it down had me stuck on wow. I watched the video three times that month, and it had nothing to do with charisma, or eloquent words. It had everything to do with the fact that everything mentioned in the sermon had been what I knew in my heart, but could never say out loud. I was led to that sermon to affirm the beliefs that I already had and now the confidence I have to explain my faith is at an all time high.

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God” -Romans 10:17-

Growing up, I thought I was exempt from falling victim to influences pushed by mainstream media. I was wrong of course, because so much of who I was based off of my favorite songs or TV characters mixed in with a little life experience and that was me for better or worse. The teachings of the bible were always floating around, but for me at the time it was passe’. How could I, living in this modern era really live my life the way the Bible had said we should? I just couldn’t reconcile the way the world is now with the expectation of living a holy life as of 2000+ years ago. The older I got the more understanding I began to pray for, but only because I had begun to truly call on the Lord in the time of need did my faith really start to grow. The 2010’s were some fairly rough years for me and my family, just a few years after the birth of my first son, my dad and mom were both diagnosed with prostate and breast cancer respectively. I remember when my mother broke the news to me about her diagnosis, I broke down immediately and because I cried, she cried. My mom being the woman God that she is told me that everything would work out one way or another I just had to pray. I went home that evening and told my wife the news, then she cried, but she urged me to go to church that evening. I remember in that service I went to the altar to pray for my mother like I had never prayed before in my life. Ultimately she had the surgery required to get rid of the cancer and it hasn’t been back since thank the Lord. Some say it was good luck the doctors found it when they did or it was coincidence. I don’t believe in luck or coincidence, I believe in prayer and I believe that God hears and answer them. For years since I was a child I heard that prayer is powerful, Jesus himself went away to pray every chance he got. Knowing that written in the word of God that the only sinless person to ever live had to pray gave me the confidence to do the same.

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” -1 Thessalonians 5:16-17-

You might be wondering what this has to do with why I believe the Bible to be true and that’s a valid question. I believe because it is a compilation of eyewitness accounts in the time of other eyewitnesses corroborating incidents with very minor differences. The amount of work it would take for someone(s) to go and change all these accounts so they match up with a narrative that was told thousands of years ago and in several other languages is a bit much. More than that, I believe because I’ve witnessed miracles time and time again in my life and in the life of others. About a year after my moms surgery my father was hospitalized after coming back from a trip to Haiti. For a few days the doctors didn’t know what was wrong and then they found out it was his prostate. I’ve my dad cry twice in my life once when the year before when my mom, his wife was in post-op after her surgery the year before, and this moment when he heard he had prostate cancer. Again, I cried out to God to heal my Dad, a few weeks later he had his procedure and it was successful as well. I’ve seen my parents survive their battle with cancer and to have it never return is more than I could’ve asked for or even imagined. I believe the Holy Bible is true, because simply put God has answered so many of my prayers over the years and very specific prayers at that. There is no way on earth that it’s just some happy accident. In my prayer life now, I pray hard and often, from little to big prayers. Yes, the Bible may have been written over 2000+ years ago over a period of time that I can’t fathom by different authors, it is still relevant today. We deal with the same issues of morality, faith and salvation and no one is going to tell me that 66 books put together over generations by different people from different eras had the same exact inclination to point everything to God. It may have been written by human hands, but I know that it was all God inspired from Genesis to Revelation.

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” -2 Timothy 3:16-17-

Thank you for spending a little time to read this blog, I truly appreciate you. I pray that you were encouraged in some way by what you read. God bless, and don’t forget to keep “Chasing God’s Way/ve.”