Is the bible a fact that God exists, or is it a personal choice to invest one's faith that God exists?

Dad, Theologians, philosophers, scientists, and atheists have debated the existence of God for hundreds of years. Theologians affirm His existence, even though they debate about who He really is. Philosophers ponder the ability of knowing God and if He exists at all. Scientists don't find Him under a microscope or on a scale. So they largely ignore and often define Him out of existence. Atheists, of course, deny Him and many of them try to prove He does not exist.

Yet, God exists.

He does not exist because we say He does; He is independent of our proclamations. He does not exist because we want Him to exist; He is independent of our desires. He does not exist because in our ignorance, we insert God in order to explain the unknown; He is independent of our ignorance. No. God exists because He is. We Christians have experienced Him, felt Him, and know Him. We can see His hand in our lives. We see the circumstances of life move and be moved to bring us to answers that we know are from Him. We sense Him our prayers and our lives. We see Him work in the lives of others. We watch as He answers prayer and confirms in our own hearts His love for us. We know He exists because He exists.

Dad, The Bible speaks of God and does not defend His existence. It simply asserts it. Sometimes there are simply things you cannot prove to someone else, but you know. Yes, this is subjective, but it is often true.

The Bible has Fulfilled prophecy. God spoke to men telling them of things He would bring about in the future. Some of them have already occurred. Others have not. For example, there were more than 300 prophecies concerning Jesus Christ's first coming 2,000 years ago. There is no doubt that these are prophecies from God because of manuscripts and scrolls dated before the birth of Christ. These were not written after the fact. They were written beforehand. Scientific dating proves this.

The unity of Scripture. The Bible was written by approximately 40 human authors over a period of approximately 1,600 years. These men were quite diverse. Moses, a political leader; Joshua, a military leader; David, a shepherd; Solomon, a king; Amos, a herdsman and fruit picker; Daniel, a prime minister; Matthew, a tax collector; Luke, a medical doctor; Paul, a rabbi; and Peter, a fisherman; among others. The Bible was also written under a variety of circumstances. It was written on 3 different continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Yet, the great themes of Scripture are maintained in all the writings. The Bible does not contradict itself. There is no way, apart from God the Holy Spirit supervising the writing of the Bible, that this could have been accomplished.

Contrast this with the Islamic Koran. It was compiled by one individual, Zaid bin Thabit, under the guidance of Mohammed's father-in-law, Abu-Bekr. Then in A.D. 650, a group of Arab scholars produced a unified version and destroyed all variant copies to preserve the unity of the Koran. The Bible was unified from the time of its writing. The Koran had to be unified through the editing of men.

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Hmm. I think that these two are not opposites. Today, we are used to thinking that faith is something we believe in the absence of all evidence. Historically, that's not what people have thought their religion to be. Famous theologians like Augustine and the Neo-Platonists spent considerable time arguing in favor of a Christian god from first principles - that is, they thought that reason and evidence could convince us to have faith. Today, too, basically nobody believes in God contrary to all evidence, argument, and experience. Most people who believe do so precisely because they feel they do have good evidence, good arguments, and real experiences of divinity. One may very reasonably question some of these bits of evidence if they seem uncompelling, but we should not mistake poor reasoning as being the same thing as belief without reasons.

For example, if I saw Jesus perform a miracle for me tomorrow, you can bet I'd believe in his divinity right away. That would be faith, but it would also be faith for the reason of very good eyewitness evidence. And if you were able to explain the miracle as a magic trick, then perhaps I would revise my belief - in other words, my belief may have been based on bad evidence after all - but you would still have to admit that it had been based on some evidence. And maybe faith is based on lots of good evidence.

All of that is to say that it seems to me that one may have faith that God exists even in the face of imperfect evidence; and furthermore, the Bible may offer some evidence that God exists in order to help buttress one's faith. They go together. We can think that God exists because we take it on faith, and also because the Bible provides some factual stories that support that belief, and both can happen at the same time for the same person.

The Bible is a book, written, rewritten and edited, by humans, largely about a being that none of them ever met, as far as could be verified by anyone else. If the Bible proves God exists, a Superman comic proves Superman exists.

I believe that god exists but not because of the bible. It just makes sense to me. As far as your question goes, i think that the believer makes a choice to learn about god from the events recorded in the bible and then they allow the holy spirit into their heart which gives them faith. Hope this helps

The Bible represents a history of people who had supernatural experiences with God.

It bears record of this and many find God by reading the Bible.

God also is able to transcend the Bible and bring people to himself without the Bible.

The bible doesn't prove a thing.

You know whether you believe in a God or Gods or whatever.

There is no scientific proof of a supreme being.

If the idea of religion floats your boat then awesomesauce. Just don't impose your beliefs on everyone else.

No. If the Bible is proof of the Christian god then the supposedly "sacred" scripture of all the world's other religions are equal proof for their gods. And then you would encounter the argument from inconsistent revelations, otherwise known as the avoiding the wrong hell problem.

Being Christian is a personal choice yes

It's 100% "belief" only ....... which is a fact that "most" Christians and Muslims deny. They will falsely tell you that they can prove their god exists; they can't. It's all "belief".

personal choice. bottom line, that is what "faith" is about.. no solid proof, so just a choice...