You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

pastor, author, and teacher David Platt. Can we really trust that the Bible, that this book

is the Word of God? Like, how? How do we know? It's not just some made-up book written by people recording their thoughts on religion.

Is it possible to actually know that this book, the Bible, is the word of God himself?

And that's a really foundational question.

In a sense, it's one of the most important questions for every one of us in

this gathering right now to answer. But think about it. I mentioned some of you may not be a

Christian right now. If that's you, I'm assuming you want to know the truth about, well, number one, is there really a God? I mean, I'm assuming

you want to know if one true God really exists, and then flowing from that, I'm assuming you

would want to know if this is really his word.

This is the way he's chosen to reveal himself to us.

And if you're a Christian, you've based your entire life on this book being the Word of God.

I'm assuming you want to know if that's really true. I'm assuming you don't want to

base your entire life on a lie or just on tradition. Like I was sharing the gospel with a Sikh man

from Punjab, India this week. He was saying, we only believe what we believe because of where we're

born,

which led to a whole discussion about the truth behind what we believe.

Like, either there is one true God or there's not one true God.

Either Jesus is God or Jesus is not God,

which means that wherever we're born, whether in India or the United States or anywhere in between, we need to seek what's true. Paul, in the Bible, who's writing at one

point, even says to non-Christians, pity Christians, like feel sorry for Christians if this

book is not true, specifically of what this book says about the death and resurrection of Jesus is not true.

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