Why Trust the Bible?

Why Trust the Bible?

The word Biblia simply means “books.” And that's exactly what the Bible is: a collection of 66 books written by different authors across centuries, telling one unfolding story of God and His relationship with humanity.

The Bible is divided into two major sections:

1. The Old Testament — 39 books that tell the story of God's relationship with Israel and point forward to the coming Messiah.

2. The New Testament — 27 books that tell the story of Jesus, the early Church, and the message of the Gospel.

The first four books of the New Testament are the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They give us four accounts of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

What's especially interesting is that the Gospels don't portray Jesus' followers as perfect heroes. They include embarrassing moments, failures, doubts, misunderstandings, and even Jesus' disciples abandoning Him.

That's not what we would expect if the authors were simply trying to create a story that made themselves look impressive.

Luke begins his Gospel by explaining that he carefully investigated the accounts handed down by those who were eyewitnesses of Jesus' life (Luke 1:1–4).

And then something remarkable happened.

Jesus' followers went from frightened disciples who abandoned Him at His arrest to people who boldly proclaimed that they had seen Him alive after His death.

Some of these followers suffered greatly and, according to early Christian testimony, some were eventually killed for their faith.

Their willingness to suffer doesn't prove that Christianity is true. People can sincerely believe things that aren't true.

But it does raise an important question:

Why would these people willingly suffer for a message they knew they had invented?

The earliest Christians weren't simply saying, “We believe Jesus is God.”

They were saying:

“We saw Him. He died. And we believe God raised Him from the dead.”

That claim is the foundation of Christianity.

And this is why the question of who Jesus is matters so much.

If Jesus is truly the Creator and Savior, then He changes everything—our understanding of God, ourselves, our purpose, our relationships, our suffering, and our future.

But if He isn't who He claimed to be, then Christianity ultimately collapses.

Everything comes back to Jesus.

And that's why I don't think we should be afraid to ask questions.

If Jesus really is who He says He is, He's worth investigating.