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|||I can't really speak for the Bible because I consider it to be a flawed document. In many ways, the books included in it are a crap shoot--meaning that other books also might well have been chosen for inclusion in it, and they would then now be considered canon rather than apocrypha..
I regard faith not as giving a religious book credibility, but more as something that enables us to seek the goal of being able to feel universal love.|||Dear Me,
Faith trumps gullibility, scorn and other properties of protoplasm. Faith gives consciousness something to focus on. It relieves confusion and self-doubt, things which stop guilt. Credibility is being convinced of a particular Truth. Do you have credibility or contempt on investigation?
"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."|||The Bible gets its credibility by
1. It is an accurate historical record
2. It was by several different authors at several different times yet it has a continuity within that could only be Divine Design.
3. Its prophecies are always fulfilled
4. The most important thing that makes it credible it that of the CHANGED LIVES once it read and studied and the spiritual lesson applied to daily living.|||A good answer is much more complex than that. The credibility of the bible can be easily compared on the same basis as any historical or ancient document. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Anyone can demonstrate faith just by sitting down and putting their faith in the chair that it will not break. Some folks have GREAT faith:) An incomplete answer, but i hope it helps!|||Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen-the bible clearly states that those who belong to the world(devil)will only see things that pertain to the world.Meanwhile those who belong to GOD see things that pertain to him.Unless you give your heart to Christ you will never understand.|||For a person of faith then yes the Bible gets its credibility from that faith. In as far as giving credibility to people without faith, I doubt very much that even if Jesus descended on a cloud into you living room and handed you a copy of the Bible signed by Him that you would believe it. You would probably just say it was a drug induced hallucination and your friends sneaked the Bible into your house.|||Many of our strongest beliefs are held by what we want to think, not what is true.
Throughout the history of mankind, people have held beliefs that obviously cannot be true, but their need to believe the outweighs the power of logic
Whether one believes his is the best country, religion, ethnicity, gender, etc. has little to do with reality.
However, people take comfort in believing that what they value isn't just good, but somehow better than other groups. This is why you have Mormon's, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses all thinking they are right when everyone else is wrong
This is why you have Americans, French, English, etc, believing their group is superior.
Now in math a%26gt;b and b%26gt;a cannot both be true. So, obviously, those clinging to the illusion of superiority cannot all be right. It follows, therefor, that books like the Bible are kind of irrelevant when it comes to beliefs. If you are told enough that your country is superior, or your religion is superior, that is the basis for your belief, not anything objective or verifiable.|||So many people answering only with hate and a false sense of disillusionment...
If words are intended to increase faith, then its credibility as a source of hope is certainly certified in the increase of the believer's faith. I would say more that faith is an effect of the Bible, especially when it's all tied together, including a person's life.
As I've learned, I've grown in faith. As I've prayed, I've grown in faith. As I've grown in faith, I have asked and received, because I've learned from the Master, Jesus Christ by way of the Holy Spirit in God's love.
If you're looking for a reason to believe it, like credibility, what good would that be if you weren't willing to read it?|||Romans 10:
17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
1 Corinthians 2:
5. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 10:
13. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
2 Corinthians 5:
7. For we walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 13:
5. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Galatians 3:
7. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.|||It's actually quite the opposite. The need for faith means that an assertion cannot stand based on evidence or reasoning.
If it could, faith wouldn't be required.
Faith is based solely on emotion. It is very similar to the concept of hope.|||Faith only gives a deity credibility to an individual who beleives in said deity. For an individual to claim that faith gives credibility to the Bible simply does not know the history of how that Bible came to be.|||I don't know but it must have something to do with money because people believe in money but it not backed by anything but some how its real. The bible is credible until properly disproved like any other thing. much love wanderer|||The holy spirit gives the Bible credibility, faith just helps you to see it.|||"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
--Friedrich Nietzche|||Faith gives you hope,to have hope is credible.ADD; "Hope springs eternal".|||Faith ony confers credibility to the 'bible' if one is delusional.|||Faith is just the excuse believers give each other when they have no reliable evidence.|||It creates emotional credibility. For those who value experience above all.|||It doesn't. It is taught as a virtue because the beliefs are not credible, by definition.|||It doesn't.
In fact, the opposite is true.|||that it does not|||It doesn't. The word faith has been morphed into something of a value in retarded parts of the world, just like the teaching "Difference isn't necessarily bad" has morphed into "difference is good."|||Majority rule
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