Bible - Not of Human Origin
The contents of the Bible are clearly superhuman. 'My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts'. (Isaiah 55.8, 9). It has been well said that the surest way to obtain a conviction that the Bible is the word of God is to read it constantly. Its doctrines and precepts are altogether above human wisdom. Its system of ideas are foreign to man's conception of values and assessments. It describes the heart of man basically as 'desperately wicked'; it speaks of man's alienation from God because of sin, and of his mortal corruptible nature. Man is abased, God is exalted; its moral principles are opposed to human standards, and the virtues it inculcates are in direct opposition to human propensities.
The uniform teaching of the Bible is a marvel. Notwithstanding its sixty-six divisions, the diverse human instruments employed in its compilation, its extended period of production of some 1600 years, it bears uniformity of teaching concerning a divine purpose summed up in the inspired declaration, 'As truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with my glory'. This purpose is revealed in plain language in figure, in type, in allegory, in prose and poetry. It is so written that a child can understand its elements, yet a student of full age could never claim to have exhausted the study.
Many other lines of evidence proving the truth of the Bible can be considered almost inexhaustibly. The evidence of archaeology, the 'undesigned coincidences', as they are called, in the presentation of fact in minutest detail, the internal harmonies, the remarkable preservation of the book - all these points provide an accumulation of evidence which is irresistible to the thoughtful mind. Hence the apostle Paul commended the Thessalonian believers because 'when ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe'. (1 Thessalonians 2.13).