Sadly, there seems always to be someone who wants to talk you out of believing in the Bible. Why? Because the farther away from the Bible you are, the less and less you will honestly believe in God. A person can’t destroy your testimony. They can’t undermine your experiences. That can’t even disprove God. But they can get you to doubt God’s Word. That is a dangerous place to be.
Did you know that the cultists who come to your door (Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses in particular) are literally trained to confuse you using some obscure passage so that, in the confusion, they can capitalize on your weakness and convince you they are right? After all, if they can make you believe the Bible is wrong, they automatically get to be the ones who are right. Many are so deceived, but you can be confident in the Bible.
There is a simple way to stand firm in times of doubt: remember what Jesus believed and taught.
Yes, Jesus believed in very crucial events that are used to cause doubts.
Jesus held the highest view possible of His Scriptures, the written Word. Here are ten truths He believed and taught.
1 – Jesus believed in a literal Jonah, Nineveh, and Queen of Sheba.
Matthew 12:40-42 (NKJV) “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.”
2 – Jesus believed in a literal Adam and Eve and in a literal Six-Day Creation.
Most Bible critics believe that the first human being evolved from lower forms of life. But in response to a question on the relationship between a husband and a wife, Jesus established the basis for the marriage of the first couple, whom He said were created by God: “Haven’t you read…that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?” Matt. 19:4–5 (NIV)
3 – Jesus believed in a literal Cain and Abel.
Matthew 23:34-35 (NKJV) “Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.”
4 – Jesus believed in a literal prophet Daniel.
Many critics insist that Daniel was a historian, not a predictive prophet, who wrote around 165 B.C. — after the events he announced about Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome (for his prophecies, see Daniel 2 and 7).
Jesus claimed that Daniel was a prophet who predicted things in advance, saying, “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel — let the reader understand — then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.” Matthew 24:15–16 (NIV)
Jesus went on to give a detailed prediction about the destruction of Jerusalem almost forty years in advance.
5 – Jesus believed in a literal prophet Elijah.
Luke 4:25-27 (NKJV) “But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land; but to none of them was Elijah sent except to Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
6 – Jesus believed in a literal worldwide flood and a literal Noah who built a literal ark.
Luke 17:27 (NKJV) “They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.”
7 – Jesus believed in a literal Sodom and Gomorrah and the man Lot.
Luke 17:28-29 (NKJV) “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.”
8 – Jesus believed in a literal Moses.
Luke 20:37-38 (NKJV) “But even Moses showed in the burning bush passage that the dead are raised, when he called the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”
9 – Jesus believed and taught that all of the Old Testament was true.
Luke 24:27 (NKJV) “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”
10 – Jesus believed and taught that the Bible taught the Gospel message
Luke 24:27 (NKJV) “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.”
