Evidences the Bible is Complete and the Final Authority in Salvation

1/26/2019 Christianity 21 Comments

One of the most frequently asked questions, especially by the skeptics, concerns the authenticity and completeness of the Bible as a book that contains the words of God. Others even ask if the things written there are the final words of God.

I believe that the Bible is complete. The Bible is a compilation of books which God had given to His people. And when He gave it to them, He set specific prohibitions in the use of this book – nothing must be added to it and nothing must be taken away from it. This was explicitly stated in the book of REVELATION 22:18-19 (KJV) which says,


Those verses clearly prove that the Bible is complete. Otherwise, God would no longer prohibit us from adding and taking away anything from it. When nothing more needs to be added, or to be deducted, from something, it means it is already complete. If you are going to add or take away anything from that something, it will lose it completeness. So, by logic, we believe that the Bible is a complete book since God commanded us not to add or deduct anything from it anymore, and disobeying His commandment would merit a commensurate punishment.

God had spoken to humanity since the time of the creation of man – from the time of Adam and Eve, to Cain, to Seth, to Abraham, to Noah, to the tribes of Israel, and so on. God’s communication to humanity had been constant. HEBREWS 1;1-2 (KJV) says,


Let me emphasize what Saint Paul said, “Hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son”. We are actually living in the last days in the biblical calendar. Using the past perfect tense of the verb speak, (hath spoken), it implies a completed action. In other words, everything that must be revealed had been revealed by His Son; and all the things that need to be said had been spoken by God thru His Son also. Actually, even the future, up to the end, had already been revealed in the Bible.

REVELATION 1:1 says,


So, when the book of Revelation was given, the time left was short. Although it might take 2,000 years or more, for God that is just short.

The things that are contained in the book of Revelation are the things which must shortly come to pass. God gave the revelation to John thru His angels.

As written in REVELATION 4:1,


We know that the book of Revelation was written sometime in 98 A.D., which was the end of the first century of the Christian era. This means that as early as that period, the things that must shortly come to pass and the things that must be hereafter, had already been revealed to John. And they were all recorded in the Bible. REVELATION 1:19 says,


Therefore, the Bible contains the complete revelations and prophecies that cover until the end.

We must bear in mind that one of the attributes of God is that He is capable of declaring the end from the beginning of all things that exist. That is written in ISAIAH 46:9-10,


That is the kind of God that caused the writing of the Scriptures; He could declare the end from the beginning. Undoubtedly, the Bible is complete in all senses; it is final. The Bible is the final authority when it comes to the salvation of humanity. No other book must be given the same value and importance; and no other book can ever compare with the Bible.

There is definitely no truth to the claim of the Mormon church that the book of Mormon is more superior than the Bible. The so-called “Apostle” Bruce McConkie of the Mormon church said, 


That is stupidity! To place the book of Mormon, which is full of lies and inventions of Joseph Smith, in parallel with the Bible in significance and value is an act of blasphemy. The apostle of the Mormon church who made such claim is a false apostle. He is just like the one who sent him, satan.

In II CORINTHIANS 11:13-15 it says,


The book of Mormon is full of fallacies and lies! I have mentioned earlier that there is a final revelation of God, and that was written in the book of Revelation. But according to Joseph Smith there was another revelation which came in 1844. From the section Doctrines and Covenants in the Book of Mormons we will see the hallucinations of Joseph Smith and his cohorts. It says:


This revelation of Joseph Smith is a lie. Why? As early as the 19th century, they said that there will be a New Jerusalem that will be built in the western boundaries of Missouri, USA, and that temple will be dedicated by the hands of Joseph Smith. Unfortunately, Joseph Smith died by a gunshot wound caused by a mob in prison. Joseph Smith was imprisoned because of the criminal charges filed against him by the US government. The history of the United States will prove that there was no New Jerusalem built in the western boundaries of the state of Missouri. And there was no temple either that was dedicated by the hands of Joseph Smith because he met an unexpected death while he was in prison.

 At first glance, this revelation seems to be a revelation, but this is not a revelation coming from God. Let us not forget, all the revelations of God that must be known by man had already been recorded by John in the book of Revelation.

Another false revelation was the one received by Apollo Quiboloy sometime in February 2005.


Let me reiterate, no revelations coming from God will ever come anymore after the revelation that had been given to John thru our Lord Jesus Christ. Those revelations are complete, and so are the teachings of Christ in the Bible, they are also complete. MATTHEW 28:20 says,


Christ commanded the Apostles to teach all nations all the teachings He taught them during His three years of preaching on earth. Therefore, all the teachings of Jesus Christ are final because they are meant to be taught until the end of this world.