How Do I Know the Bible Is Actually True?

Hey Carpool Crew, welcome back to Questions from the Backseat. Today's question is one a lot of you have wondered, even if you've never said it out loud. How do I know the Bible isn't just a bunch of made-up stories? Here's the answer. The Bible is not one book. It's 66 books written by real people in real places, all telling one story that points to Jesus. In 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16, it says, "All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness." That word inspired means that God breathed it out. He used real people to write it, but the words came from Him. Here's something wild. The Bible was written over about 1,500 years by about 40 different writers on three different continents in three different languages, and yet it tells one connected story from start to finish, all pointing to Jesus. That's not a coincidence. That's God. Plus, archaeologists keep digging up cities and names and events that the Bible talked about thousands of years ago. People used to say a king named in the Bible never existed, then they found his name carved in a wall. The Bible keeps proving itself true. But here's the most important thing. You don't just read the Bible to win an argument. You read it to meet God. The Bible is how He tells us who He is and what He's like and how much He loves us. Here's the one thing I want you to remember. The Bible is not a fairy tale. It's not just some book. It's God's story, and you're invited into it. Today, open your Bible to one verse and read it out loud and ask God, "What do you want me to know?" I hope you enjoyed this answer to one of the questions from the backseat. And if you have a question of your own, submit it. You can go to carpoolingwithjesus.com/ask, and you could submit a question. You could record a question or just write one in. We'd love to answer it on a future episode. I hope you have a great day, Carpool Crew. I'll see you later.