If you really want to find evidence to support the Bible and its God, you can: there’s plenty of it. Of course, there are no photographs of Jesus, or emails from Moses to Aaron, or videos of the Flood inundating the earth. And if you’re hoping that God is going to peep between the clouds so that you can have faith, forget it- it isn’t going to happen.
Faith is not dependent on evidence. In fact, it’s most pure and most genuine without it, as Jesus said to Thomas after his resurrection:
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).
However, if you really want to see something to back up the Bible, it’s there, somewhere: I’ve seen some of it. Some of it is blatantly obvious to all of us, but few of us want to notice. One of the ways in which the Bible can be strongly corroborated and supported, for example, is through archaeology. This may seem a little too obvious, but if you ask an unbelieving archaeologist or a liberal one you will likely be told there’s no evidence, or little evidence, or that the evidence has been fabricated or mistakenly interpreted. But if you ask a believing one, he will tell you that there is real, hard, genuine evidence. Some of that evidence is the subject of another post I’m publishing today.
Unfortunately, media outlets such as the BBC or NPR don’t see fit to share any hard evidence in support of the Bible. If they ever do mention it, it will be cast in a poor light compared to what they will explain is “superior” evidence from unbelievers.
I once had a little debate with a high-school teacher in the UK, in which I told her about the work of a Christian man showing that genetics is strong evidence for a creator. I assured her that he was a PhD scientist, but, looking down her nose at me, she insisted that his doctorate must be from a “lower class” of University. I informed her that this man had three earned doctorates from Oxford, and offered to lend her his book. She didn’t want to set eyes on it.
Remember that of the disciples following Jesus Christ while he was on the earth, and watching his miracles, and benefitting from his teachings, some still did not believe in him:
‘But there are some of you that believe not.’ For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him (John 6:64).
They believed the miracles-they couldn’t help it when they saw a lame man suddenly walk -but they did not believe who Jesus was, and neither did they want to. That’s where the crux of the matter of faith really is. Belief is not about being convinced by hard evidence, it’s about the state of a man’s or a woman’s heart. What do you want to believe? Who do you want to follow?
Fuel for Faith 