Why I Trust the Bible

Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible

By: William D. Mounce

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

A Clear Guide to Help You Understand Why You Can Trust the Bible

We are often told we can no longer assume that the Bible is trustworthy. From social media memes to popular scholarship, so many attacks have been launched on the believability of Scripture that many have serious questions about the Bible, such as:

• Did Jesus actually live?
• Did the biblical writers invent their message?
• How can we trust the gospels since they were written so long after Jesus lived?
• How can we believe a Bible that is full of internal contradictions with itself and external contradictions with science?
• Aren't the biblical manuscripts we have just copies of copies that are so corrupted they don't represent what the original authors wrote?
• Why should we believe the books that are in the Bible, since many good ones were left out, like the Gospel of Thomas?
• Why trust the Bible when there are so many contradictory translations of it?

If you find yourself unable to answer questions such as these, but wanting to, Why I Trust the Bible by eminent Bible scholar and translator William Mounce is for you. These questions and more are discussed and answered in a reasoned, definitive, and winsome way.

The truth is that the Bible is better attested and more defensible today than it ever has been. Questions about the Bible are perhaps the most significant challenge confronting Christian faith today, but they can be answered well and in a way which will lead to a deeper appreciation for the truth and ongoing relevance of the Bible.

Accompanying visual components are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

The extensive knowledge

Very knowledgeable and informative. I very much liked hearing these arguments from someone who has spent so much time researching and thinking about them.

Great book interesting

This book has made me ask the hard questions about the Bible and will get this book physically.

Great read

There is a lot to cover obviously, but thought it was presented well. Read with an open mind and lean in.

Excellent Resource

Mounce wrote this book with the college freshman in mind, so it is very approachable and immensely enjoyable. He handles the issues of historicity, textual criticism, along with many of the classical questions of a skeptic with care and clarity. He brings the depth of skillful scholarship to the everyman reader. Get this book. If you're a skeptic, you'll find it illuminating. If you're a believer, you'll find your faith strengthened and deepened.

A Must Listen

This is a must listen/read for every serious student of the Bible. It equips for defense of the faith, but most especially the integrity of the inerrancy of Scripture. Thanks bazillion, Bill.