Short Answer
Christians believe the Bible reveals the one true God because it bears unique marks of divine origin—such as fulfilled prophecy and the resurrection of Jesus—which set it apart from all other religious claims.
The Overview
With so many religions and claims about different gods, the key question becomes: Where do we get reliable truth about God? Christianity answers this by pointing to the Bible as the authoritative source. Rather than relying on tradition or human ideas, it claims that God has revealed Himself through Scripture.
A major distinguishing factor is that the Bible presents itself not as human speculation about God, but as God’s revelation to humanity. Christians are “bound” to this revealed Word as the foundation for understanding who God is and what is true. This commitment to Scripture alone has historically been central, especially since the time of the Reformation.
What makes the Bible unique, according to this view, is its evidence of divine authorship. One key example is predictive prophecy—detailed events written long before they happened and later fulfilled. Another central claim is the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which serves as a historical validation of His authority and, by extension, the truth of Scripture.
Unlike other religious texts, which may offer moral teachings or philosophical ideas, the Bible is seen as demonstrating supernatural knowledge and power—such as accurately revealing future events and confirming its message through miracles. These features are understood as “signatures” of God’s involvement.
Ultimately, Christians conclude that the biblical God is the true God because the Bible uniquely aligns with reality, contains verifiable claims, and is affirmed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
Key Takeaways
- Source of Truth Matters
Christianity is based on divine revelation, not human ideas. - The Bible Claims to Be God’s Word
It presents itself as authoritative and inspired. - Predictive Prophecy Is Unique
The Bible foretells events that later occur. - The Resurrection Is Central
Jesus’ rising from the dead validates His claims. - Distinct from Other Religions
It offers evidence beyond philosophy or tradition. - God Has Revealed Himself
Christians trust the Bible as that revelation.
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[00:00:00 – 00:00:50] Curtis asks the question, uh, there are numerous religions with a variety of deities. Well, they don’t have a variety. They claim and posit there are a variety of deities. With that in mind, number one, how can we determine which religion or deity represents the true faith? And number two, how can we ascertain that the the Christian God is the one true God? In other words, how do Christians demonstrate that the biblical God is distinct from the other deities or other religions? Well, and I don’t
[00:00:26 – 00:01:15] want to be overly technical here, Curtis, but let’s look at those words. is number one deities. If there are multiple deities, right, then we’d have to grapple with those deities. We’d have to figure out where we can get truth about those deities. But the Bible would say, right, for us, there’s only one God and one Lord. And so, we know that there are plenty of claims. You could be a Buddhist or a Hindu and say plenty of deities. Or you can say, well, Muhammad is the great prophet, even though he
[00:00:50 – 00:01:40] doesn’t claim to be deity, and say, well, maybe we should be listening to him. And that’s where you ask the question about religion. Religion, again, not to get technical, but the word religion means to be to be bound to. And what we’re binding ourselves to as Christians, evangelical Christians, is the biblical text. The biblical text is what we’re bound to as the source of our information. It’s why we have problems as Protestants with Catholics because we’re saying we should only have
[00:01:15 – 00:02:00] one source of information, right? It’s not what my church has done or what your church in Rome has done or what the tradition of the church has said. It’s all about what the Bible says. That’s why the reformation 500 years ago was all about solola scriptor. The scripture alone. The scripture is our source of information. I know Catholics love uh to you know try and show how that’s ridiculous. It’s not ridiculous. Matter of fact, everything we’re going to say that’s right about God has got to come
[00:01:37 – 00:02:37] from God himself. And God himself has revealed himself in the pages of scripture. And Jesus has said that the the words of scripture are not going to pass away. Isaiah 40. All of it’s going to be retained for eternity. God has spoken in his word. Psalm 19, Psalm 119. so many passages that make it clear uh as as 2 Timothy 3:16 puts it that God has breathed out these words on paper and he’s done that through his apostles and prophets as Ephesians 2:20 says this reality of God speaking to us we are
[00:02:07 – 00:03:07] bound to it and what it says and so the Christian religion really is the biblical religion and the biblical religion is we think this is the one book wherein God has spoken I use that phrase mimicking uh Francis Schaefer great Presbyter Ian apologist from the last generation who wrote a book that’s been very influential. The god who is there that’s his first book and he is there and not silent. Those are just two foundational keys to what we mean by the Christian religion. Right? And so we’ll
[00:02:38 – 00:03:32] look to the Christian religion. We’ll bind ourselves to a God who exists and has spoken. He’s spoken in his word and we’re bound to what he says about deities. And the deities, right, we can say are only claimed and they’re lesser deities if they’re deities at all in other religious books, right? People that are bound to the Book of Mormon or people that are bound to the Quran or people that are bound to the polycanon or people that are bound to the to the writings of of Confucious, whatever. You
[00:03:05 – 00:03:57] can go on and on about people that are bound to a book to say here’s where truth comes from. But we’re saying it comes from this book, these 66 books of the Bible as we know it, Old and New Testament, right? The law, the prophets, the writings, and the New Testament truth. Those things together in God’s divine library are the foundation for what we know about the world and every other knowledge has got to be subject to it. That’s what Christians have said. So, how can we ascertain that the
[00:03:31 – 00:04:31] Christian God is the one true God? I would then say rationally I want to stand back and say how does the book that we’re claiming is God’s word how does it manifest the truthfulness of itself as it speaks not only about itself in passages like first Timothy and Isaiah and the rest but how does it now comport with the reality that we know and in that sense we know the world that is and we know things like dead people stay dead right we know that that people can’t know the future those are
[00:04:01 – 00:04:54] things that we know And in the Bible, we have something we don’t have in the polycanon. We don’t have it in the Book of Mormon. We don’t have it in the Quran. We don’t have it in all these other authoritative writings that are trying to tell us here’s about the deities that you should be interested in and follow. The Bible has got things in it that could only be given to us by a God who knows the future, by a God who has the who’s the author of life, who can say what lives and what dies. And in
[00:04:27 – 00:05:24] that we have this book affirmed by someone who I think you could look at historically and try and deal with the claim that has been the central claim of Christianity. And that is that you shouldn’t believe what it says unless of course it bears the marks of of divinity which would be in the case of 1 Corinthians 15 that Christ has really risen bodily physically from the dead. or if you look at the book of Isaiah that God has really spoken the future in in books of the Bible that tell the future. Sometimes hundreds of years in
[00:04:56 – 00:06:00] advance, sometimes thousands of years in advance. And when we look at things like the promise of the assembly of the nation of Israel under a king being taken off to uh conscription in another country and returning all the things that the Bible says whether it’s something like that written in 1445 by Moses who claims to be a prophet and now God gives them information about the future that comes true and we can read about it in Ezra and and Nehemiah, right? the the returning of the people that Moses talked about a thousand years
[00:05:28 – 00:06:17] earlier. Uh we start to say, “Wow, that’s interesting.” And it looks like no human being could call the future unless they know the future. Not with that specificity. Even down to Micah 5:2 saying when the Messiah comes, he’s going to come from the village of Bethlehem. And of course, that’s where Jesus was born and all the things the Bible said about Jesus. Not to mention that he comes and affirms the written text of the Old Testament. And then he authorizes his apostles to write the New
[00:05:53 – 00:06:38] Testament. And then he says, “If you don’t believe me, believe me for the works that I do.” And he says, “If you tear this temple down, meaning my body, in three days I’ll raise it up.” And he rises from the dead, which is hard for us to refute. What do we do with this man who’s changed the world that we date our checks by, who rose from the dead? If that’s the truth, right, then I’m going to say, “Wow, it must be that this book has a signature on it that the
[00:06:15 – 00:07:05] other books don’t have.” And therefore, I’m going to say I’m going to go to the Bible because the Bible has the marks of inspiration, the marks that God has written it, the marks that God has directed the apostles and prophets to put down in paper, something they couldn’t write. That’s why I say there might be a lot of books that that purport to be man’s best thoughts about God. But the Bible is the book that claims to be God’s thoughts on paper. And it proves it by predictive prophecy
[00:06:40 – 00:07:37] and by the fact that the people that uh the person in particular that gave his thumbs up to the book uh said, “Kill me and I’ll rise from the dead.” He predicted his own death and resurrection and he did it. And it’s hard for us to figure out how in the world this the facts that we do know historically uh even make any sense unless of course he was legitimately dead and rose from the dead. So those are the kinds of things that I think leave us saying this book is unique and therefore I’ll bind myself
[00:07:08 – 00:08:12] to what it says. That’s religion and I’m going to look for what it says the deities are that matter and the only deity that ultimately matters is the triune God. Father, son, holy spirit. Father architects my salvation. He architected the whole um universe into existence. Sent his son to redeem us. His spirit now guides us and directs us in this life. Uh all of that is why I am a Christian because I believe this is the book uh that God has put his fingerprints all over. I often say uh the impermoder of God is on it and
[00:07:41 – 00:08:05] therefore I’m going to believe that it’s true and everything that’s in it, it comports with reality as I know it. Uh even the things that shouldn’t happen like people rising from the dead.
