Before we answer to this or any other question, we must clear up with ourselves whether we want the truth at all. Jesus, on one occasion, knowing the motives of his conversationalists, answered them:

"If I tell you, you will not believe!" (Luke 22:67)

WOULD GOD ALLOW THE BIBLE TO LOSE ITS AUTHENTICITY?

The assertion that God allowed the Bible to lose its authenticity is blasphemous because it denies the character of God's power and love. The way by which God fulfilled the salvation plan and moved the authors of Biblical books to write down the salvation truth, represents much greater miracle than that which would be necessary to maintain those very same scriptures. And the salvation itself would not have any sense if not revealed and offered to man.

BIBLE IS ACCEPTED BECAUSE ITS CORRECTNESS IS UNDERSTANDABLE

When man accepts the authenticity of the Bible as Word of God, he does not do it because he gambles with the possibility that it is really God's Word, but because he understands it from the Bible itself. He accepts it as inspired for he understands its significance. When, in it, by any chance, should be found the verses which, for example, speak for the sake of reincarnation, he could not accept that book as inspired anymore. Why? Because it would, having lost its sensibility, lose its inspiration as well.

Without the possibility of the usage of the reason man would be really left to the game of other social and various factors in the forming of his philosophy of life and he would have an excuse for his spiritual and moral irresponsibility.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PROOFS CONFIRM THE BIBLE AUTHENTICITY

Numerous archaeological findings among which are the manuscripts of Kumran, definitely confirm that the Bible up to now has not lost its authenticity. Also, the Old Testament is a Jewish book and Jews have kept it in their hands independently from the Christian Church. If Christian Church really influenced its contents, then the differences between Jewish and Christian Old Testament would appear and those differences do not exist. Also, between Jewish Old and Christian New Testament there are no differences regarding the doctrine. The first has the fulfillment in the second. The Old Testament speaks of Jesus to come and the New Testament of Jesus who came.

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROOF OF DIVINE INSPIRATION

Biblical doctrine is in conflict with human psychology. Man would never be able to invent it such as it is now regarding its contents. Moreover, he, by his nature, does not have the motives out of which he would accept it but has only the motives out of which he could reject it. It touches his natural motives of behavior thinking that they are the expression of his selfishness and self-righteousness. If someone influenced the Bible contents, he would include into it just what pleases man's nature and not what is against it and the Bible would not be anymore the subject of so many critiques and doubts.

LOGICAL PROOF

The claim that the verses which speak for the sake of the existence of reincarnation are taken out of the Bible is very frequent. But, should such verses be found in the Bible, then they would come into conflict with a number of verses which exclude the possibility of reincarnation. The Bible critics would finally find the proof that the Bible is contradictory to itself and deny its inspiration.