[quote=@Bishop]
[@Disdain] You overlook one crucial point. All the men who you mentioned speak the words of God do they not? I mean how can they know what God wants/needs without him telling that? So by that logic, couldn't he have lied to these prophets, to these men he chose to spread his word? He says lying is a sin, but he is omnipotent so is it impossible for him to go against his own words? Not even spoken by him, but rather passed down to these so called prophets.
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The Bible states that it is the absolute truth. And it establishes a very, very good reputation for it. The God that the Bible describes acts consistently in daily life, and things that the Bible says are true that can be tested hold up with unfailing accuracy. A reputation for truth is enough in any court system to trust a witness, and for a loving God who claims to be holy and acts that way consistently, it's even easier. I would justify those statements, but I don't really have time to, and I never saved anyone by debating them--I'm just enumerating some of my reasoning for believing in God and that everything He says is the absolute truth. A couple years back I spent several days meticulously justifying every bit of reasoning I had for the existence of God, and I'm not in the mood to do that again right now, heheh.