What makes the Bible right and other religions wrong? There is no denying that Christians believe they are right just as Muslims do. Each would say the other is going to hell. So why would I believe any of them when there is no actual proof any of them are right?
It is God who makes "the Bible right and other religions wrong." It is He who said, "I am the way the, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:5). It is He who said through Peter, "there is salvation in on one else, for there is no other name given among men by which we must be saved." My friend if you or anyone desires to live eternally, in a state free from the burdens characteristic of this life, it will happen only in and through the Lord Jesus. Muhammed will not get you there. The Hindu gods will not get you there. Budda will not get you there, nor any other philosophy of man. If people are relying on these or other philosophies for salvation, paradise, enlightenment or whatever, they will fail in their efforts.
It also says there is no path to God except through Christ, meaning Christianity if the only right religion and everyone else is condemned.
Again, Jesus says, "I am THE WAY, the Truth, and the Life..." Since he is THE WAY, there are no other paths to God. He is the only way. [Caps are for emphasis. Not yelling here}].
Except it says that you can only get to God through him. That is not just a belief. It means anyone not coming through Christ is incapable of getting to God and therefore Christianity if the only correct religion. You can't pretend that saying be Christian or never see God isn't condemning anyone not Christian.
Condemnation is the prerogative of God. Christians condemn no one, at least not in any significant way. But speaking as the Bible speaks, or repeating what God says, "Whoever believes in him is not CONDEMNED, but whoever does not believe is CONDEMNED already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God" (John 3:18).
God has "given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence" (2 Pet. 1:3). God has revealed truth and when people hear the truth and reject it, they effectually condemn themselves.
No one will stand before God in the judgement with an excuse for rejecting the religion of Christ.
It has been asked by many, "If God has revealed truth, why isn't it readily apparent to everyone?' The reason: "and this is the judgement, the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true, comes to the light..."
Regarding God's word, David said, "The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple" (Psa. 119:130).
Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life" (John 8:12).
People reject Jesus (the Bible, the word of God, the gospel, etc.) because they do not like what he says.
So, as long as we all agree that the Bible could all be lies or not and there is no proof of it at all then I have nothing more to say here. We definitely won't agree as to the validity of anything men wrote down.
No proof of the Bible? What about the eyewitnesses to it all? Are you saying the apostles were all lying? Are you saying they all died horrible deaths for a lie?
What about Paul? Here is a man who went from "breathing out slaughter" against the saints, and the significance of the word "breathing out" in the Greek is that the persecution of Christians was his life; it's what got him up in the and put the spring in His step. He loved what he was doing. He went from that to being a champion for the cause of Christ. And he gave up fame and riches and the "good life" to walk with Him.
He said of this choice, "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ (Phil. 3:8).
Did Paul live a lie? Are you saying he died for something that had "no proof"? And please understand, he was no hick; he was a highly educated man.
Paul said that he did not receive the message he preached from men but through a "revelation of Jesus Christ" (Gal. 2:2) Was he lying when he said that?
Peter, another apostle, said, "no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by the Holy Spirit" (2 Pet. 1:21). Was he lying?
The Bible claims to be inspired of God, not in the sense Willie S. was inspired, but in the sense that men who recorded scripture were guided by the Spirit of God to write what they wrote, in order to ensure inerrancy. Is it all a lie?
What about fulfilled prophecy as proof? Read Isaiah 53 and see it's fulfillment in Christ Jesus, as just one example, and know that the fulfillment of the predictions in this passage in just one person apart from God is an impossibility.
We could go on and on about the proof of God's word, but we'll forgo for the moment.
I will leave you with this regarding God's existence and unbelievers, and it's from Paul, who, again, claimed to have received his message from Jesus Christ, "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse" (Rom. 1:19-20).
