A Well-Known Book

A long time ago, some people wrote down words on paper. These people were exceedingly diverse--one was a farmer, another was the richest king in the world. The writings of this diverse group was compiled into a single work: the Bible. The Bible is the best-selling book, and has been since before anyone thought of the idea of recording best-sellers.

The Bible has more authors than any other book. It also has less inconsistencies than any other book. This is inconceivable, by any earthly standards. All these people have nothing in common but their religion. How could so many people from so many walks of life all believe exactly the same thing about God?

Unless, of course, their belief is not internal, but external. Here's a definition of those terms:

By "internal," I mean that the believer created this belief in his own mind, using his own logic. By "external," I mean that the believer's belief comes from some other source. This could be simply that this is what the believer has been told his whole life, or it could be God-inspired.

It had to be an external belief that inspired the Bible. But external belief is more broad: it could be God-inspired, but it also might be human-inspired.

The human-inspired idea could easily destroy the accuracy of the Bible, if the ideas mentioned therein line up only because of what other people said. But this isn't a problem, because that really isn't possible.

The doctrines taken from the Bible were thought of after the Bible was written. The authors of the Bible were the first to say the things that they said. They were not just writing about the things they were told their whole lives. This is what I'm doing at the moment--I'm discussing ideas that I've known about as long as I can remember. The Biblical authors are the ones who created those ideas.

But, because their agreement with each other is humanly impossible, their beliefs still must be external. They still have to come from somewhere else. This means God. If they did not think of their own ideas, and no one gave them the ideas, then it had to be God.

So the Bible was God-inspired. Some would argue that this is impossible because God doesn't exist, but there's a problem with that statement now.

The Bible can only exist in its present state if there is a God. Since it does exist, and cannot exist any other way, there has to be a God.

This means that the Bible is accurate, coming from the inventor of life, the universe and everything; it also means that there is an inventor. I hope some of this makes sense to someone other than me. If not, I don't know that I can explain much better. Sorry.

Goodbye, valiant reader,
Mitchell