Excerpt from Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler of “Who Made God?”
Unlike other holy books, the Bible alone has been supernaturally confirmed to be the Word of God. For only the Scriptures were written by prophets who were supernaturally confirmed by signs and wonders. When Moses questioned hos his message would be accepted, God performed miracles through him “that [the Israelites] may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob – has appeared to you” (Exodus 4:5). Later, when Korah rose up to challenge Moses, God again miraculously intervened his prophet (Numbers 16) – and so, too, Elijah was confirmed to be a prophet of God by supernatural intervention on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18).
In the Gospels, the Jewish teacher Nicodemus said to Jesus, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him” (John 3:2, Luke 7:22). Peter declared, “Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through Him” (Acts 2:22). The writer of Hebrews affirms that “God also testifies to [salvation through Jesus Christ] by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will” (Hebrews 2:4). And the apostle Paul proved his apostleship by affirming, “The things that mark an apostle – signs, wonders and miracles – were done among you with great perseverance” (2 Corinthians 12:12).
No other book in the world has authors who were confirmed in this miraculous manner. Of all the world religions leaders, neither Confucius nor Buddha nor Muhammad nor Joseph Smith was confirmed by miracles verified by contemporary and credible witnesses. The Bible alone proves to be the Word of God written by prophets and apostles of God who were confirmed by special miraculous acts of God.
