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Even if man was made by a god, there no good reason to suppose the Bible was inspired by one. This is he point - like the evolution debate, First Cause argument doesn't do a thing to validate any particular religion or Holy Book.
Is there any proof that the Bible is not 100% man made?
There is no objective proof for the subjective.
The bible is said to be the word of God but always written in the hand of man.
The reader is to filter the hand of man out and ask themself what the word of God means to them.
You are confusing proof with evidence.
One is inductive, the other deductive.
You can objectively prove the bible exists, but veracity for the claims of its inspiration must be deduced.
BTW, Jesus loves atheists but He's undecided about agnostics.
Well said, but I think we know what the OP means. As a couple of proper prawns here put it 'Crappy evidence is still Evidence".
What is looked for is sound and persuasive evidence. Now take the Gospels (wear gloves). That the nativities conflict pretty soundly is 'proof' (compelling sound evidence) that they were invented, separately. But that Jesus being from Galilee was an embarrassment that they had to try to get over by inventing these tales to have him born in Judea, as the Messiah (as they thought) ought to have been. So it is, on all persuasive evidence, proof that Jesus really was a Galilean.
So evidence that the Bible content came from God rather than just from men would be in the evidence put forward -true history, scientific facts unknown until later, and prophecy that came true. We know this because he Bible apologists constantly try to find them in the Bible.
However, these claims have been, or are being, debunked. Science in the Bible, quite easily. Genesis and now Exodus is pretty much 'proven' to be fables. History such as it is, turns out to be written by fallible men and indeed dishonest men, as example the historical fact of the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib being shown as victory for the Hebrews with God smiting the Assyrian army, whereas the more compelling evidence is that Hezekiah submitted to Sennacherib and paid tribute.
As to prophecy, the three Big Ones - Tyre, Babylon and Daniel, have been convincingly shown to be false in the case of Tyre and Babylon - neither were destroyed; Babylon thrived until post -Roman times and Tyre exists today. And Daniel can be convincingly dated to just before the Maccabean war. So it is retrospective history. That is pretty much the case with the prophecies about Jesus. They are retrospective, the gospel -writers adapting the Jesus story or inventing stuff to look like the fulfillment of a prophecy - which often has to be misinterpreted or fiddled to make it provide the basis.
For example, the prophecy of Rachel's children - a metaphor for the northern kingdoms destroyed by Assyria - was taken "woodenly" by Matthew as a prophecy of real children, which fitted nicely into his plot of Herod's attempt to remove a rival and thus dislodge Jesus from Judea (where the family lived) and get him into Galilee, whereas Luke has him as a Galilean wangled into Judea and born there.
But the one I like even better are the prophecies of the death of Judas in Matthew 27 and Acts 1. Compare the 'prophecies' with the OT originals and prepare to be shocked at the dogs' dinner the evangelists made of the OT passages to get them to work as prophecy.
These evidences, compelling enough for proof, thus bolster the already reasonable evidence that the big ones - Resurrection and 2nd coming - are, respectively, invented, and false prophecy.
That is what I mean by 'water under the bridge' when I get asked 'what evidence would convince me?' That is the evidence that convinces me, and there is now so much of it, and it is so compelling up to Proof, that there is no way back for the Bible. It is demonstrably debunked as the knowledge of God, and convincingly shown to be the work of men.
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