Is the New Testament really God's Word?

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. 2 Tim 3:16-17 

Is the Bible a reliable and trustworthy document?

     The Bible must be valued as God's Word so that we allow it to "teach us what is true, make us realize what is wrong in our lives," and, "correct us when we are wrong." The Bible is the only source of God speaking into our lives to prepare us and equip us to do His good work. There may be other good books but the Bible is the only inspired Word of God.  The Bible is the only book that has the power to truly change our lives.

     
     These are just a few evidences dealing with the reliability of the New Testament. There will be more on this topic and on evidences for the reliability of the Old Testament in coming posts and radio shows. Also listed are links you can follow to begin researching these topics for yourself.

     
     When historians want to verify if an ancient document is authentic there are many things that can be done. These tests have been applied to ancient, handwritten documents as well as the ancient copies of the New Testament. The other ancient documents may have as many as one thousand years between the writing of the original and the oldest existing copy of the manuscript. (The longer the gap between the original and the oldest exisiting copy then the more time for errors to creep in.)  The oldest exisiting manuscript of part of the New Testament was written within 40 years of the original. There are 14,000 manuscripts of all or part of the New Testament, but there are only a few copies of other ancient documents. 

     During the early days of the church, the first generation of church leaders, there were many quotes of the New Testament. They quoted the New Testament 36,289 times. So if all the ancient manuscripts of the New Testament and every copy on earth of the New Testament were destroyed we could still reproduce New Testament (with the exception of only 11 verses) just from the writings of these early church leaders quoting the New Testament. (Source: The Case for Christianity)

We can believe without doubt that the New Testament we have today was written by the people who were eyewitnesses to the events. 

Please follow these links to research the reliability of the Bible for yourself.

Is the Bible without error? From Christianity101

How do we know that the Bible is true? From ChristianAnswers

ClarifyingChrisitaninty This link contains quotes from ancient historians that reference Jesus Christ in ancient documents besides the Bible.