Dealing with Doubts - Why I Believe in the Bible, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this program, Chip asks: Is it intellectually feasible to believe that a collection of sixty-six manuscripts, by forty different authors, written in three languages, over a period of fifteen hundred years could actually be the very words of God? If you’ve ever struggled with questions about the authenticity and integrity of the Bible, what Chip shares will be a great encouragement.
Main Points
Five plaguing questions about the Bible:- Is the Bible the word of men or the very words of God?
- Is the Bible full of myths, legends, and fairytales, or is it historically reliable?
- Is all of the Bible true and trustworthy or only portions of it?
- Can a Bible that has been translated so many times, for so many hundreds of years, really be accurate?
- What makes the Bible so different from all other religious writings and their claims to truth?
- ARCHEOLOGY – The Bible is a historically accurate document.
- REVELATION – The Bible claims to infallibly reveal the very words and mind of God.
- ORIGIN – The Bible is unique. Its origin, structure, and unity argue for a supernatural authorship.
- JESUS – believed the Old Testament to be the very Words of God and predicted the New Testament to be likewise.
- PROPHECY – sets the Bible apart from all other Religions.
- TRANSMISSION – The Bible’s purityand perseverance throughout the centuries is nothing short of miraculous.
- IMPACT – The Bible’s power to transform lives is overwhelming.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Is it intellectually feasible to believe that a collection of 66 manuscripts by 40 different |
| 0:08.1 | authors written in three languages over a period of 1,500 years, could actually be the very |
| 0:14.9 | words of God? |
| 0:16.1 | Is there any real evidence that supports such an outrageous claim? |
| 0:19.8 | Find out today. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.9 | The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians through the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:33.0 | And have you ever questioned the accuracy of the Bible? |
| 0:36.1 | I mean, can we trust that every word from the original manuscripts aligns with what we read today? |
| 0:42.3 | Well, in just a minute, Chip will address this concern that many share as he continues our series |
| 0:47.3 | dealing with doubts. |
| 0:48.3 | Also, you'll definitely want to stick around after the teaching for additional insights from |
| 0:53.3 | Chip that will deepen your understanding |
| 0:55.0 | of this critical topic. So grab your notes as we join Chip for his message, Why I Believe in the Bible. |
| 1:02.3 | You may not know this, but before I was a pastor, I was a basketball coach. And I honestly thought |
| 1:08.4 | my whole life was going to be a basketball coach. And I'd coached middle school |
| 1:12.3 | and then high school. And then my dream was I wanted Bobby Knight's job. I wanted either Indiana or |
| 1:17.7 | Ohio State. I wanted to be a major college coach. And so I had to go to graduate school. I didn't |
| 1:23.8 | really want to go back to graduate school, but if you don't have a master's degree, then you know, you can't coach in college. And so I found a job as a resident assistant at |
| 1:32.0 | West Virginia University where I could kind of teach the freshman level stuff, and then they would |
| 1:37.1 | pay my way, which worked out really well. And I'll never forget, I was walking in to teach one of my |
| 1:41.6 | classes, and I had my books, and I had my Bible on it because I was leading a campus ministry at the same time. |
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