Can You Show The Bible Is Credible Without Citing It?...

1. It’s self-attesting, appealing to itself for authority. If it appealed to science, then science would be the final arbiter of truth, and science has been wrong, like when the sun revolved around the earth. We’d expect God’s word to begin with God and explain the world and truth, not anything as a footnote. The Bible rightly begins with God (“In the beginning God….”_). That’s not the beginning of a story but of all rational thinking. Either matter is eternal, created, or evolved—we know it’s not an illusion or Maya. Where we begin virtually determines where we end up. It actually claims to be the very Word of God and other scriptures don’t—over 2000 times it says, “Thus saith the LORD.,” or its equivalent.”
2. It’s the only one of the twenty-six known scriptures in the world that contains fulfilled prophecy, you’ll find no prophecy in the Koran, Brahman Vedas, or Bhagavad Gita, and over 2000 of them are in the Bible, not just a few lucky guesses, and these are in great detail and not vague like Nostradamus. Jesus fulfilled 333 prophecies explicitly.
3. The Bible is credible because it has miracles that are not helter-skelter or for show but to demonstrate a lesson from God, like demonstrating Christ’s deity. Other religions believe miracles because the religion is already believed, but Christianity is verified and confirmed by miracles, especially the resurrection as the biggie one. Jesus said to believe in Him for the miracles’ sake.
4. The Bible is based on history and fact—the resurrection is objective, historical fact “with many infallible proofs.” (Cf. Acts 1:3), if I can indulge a quote to say what I’m saying. There is circumstantial, historical, and empirical evidence for it. The historical, scientific, and geographic truths have been verified by archaeology. There are no scientific absurdities or anomalies, though it makes many scientific statements ahead of the writer’s time. Its history has been checked thoroughly. There is much corroborating evidence about Jesus, for instance, from secular sources. If you dehistoricize the Bible, it’s totally discredited, but no one can do that. There’s no evidence of it being a legend or myth like Greek mythology.
5. The writing of the Bible is a miracle in itself: over forty authors in three languages over 1500 years and yet having one theme.
6. It has a unique power. Most people that disbelieve it haven’t read it. We don’t have to defend it—it defends itself—just read it and prove it yourself! It doesn't contradict itself but contradicts people. The Bible has a unique ability to convict of sin and shed light: it reads you as you read it, it makes you hungry as you feed on it. You never have read it enough and don’t just read it once and set it back on the shelf!