Brother Bob: I'm Brother Bob Pellien. Thank you for joining us on this podcast episode of That's in the Bible. Our next set of questions comes from two individuals. And in fact, there are many who often ask questions like this. Let's hear the first one from Ryan Foster from San Diego, California. His question is this: [Video question] Ryan Foster: My question is, who's to say the Bible isn't fictional? [Video ends] What is the identifying characteristic of the word of God? Brother Bob: And we have a lot of very similar questions. Let's post up another one that comes from Magda Staunch from the faraway land of New Zealand. Here's her question: “You get all your answers from the Bible. How do you know that it is the right book? What about the Quran and other religious books?”  Brother Bob: Well, it's true that there's a lot of world renowned religions that use so many different books and claim those books to be the foundation of their faith because they are from God via the Quran of the Islam religion or be at the Catechism of Catholicism or other religious world renowned books that people use as the foundation of their faith. If all of those books were piled up in front of us on a table, and there they are all claiming to be the word of God in order to find which one truly is, one has to know the identifying characteristic of the word of God. For example, if a person was given the assignment to find an automobile, but they don't know what an automobile looks like, they don't know how big it is, what it sounds like, what material it's made of, they might go out on the street and get run over by an automobile and wouldn't know yet that they have found an automobile because they need to know it’s identifying characteristics. The same with the word of God. So what did Jesus mention regarding the identifying characteristic of the word of God in the book of John 17:17 he said: Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. [John 17:17 New King James Version] How is truth measured? Brother Bob: Identifying characteristic: truth. That's where many would probably want to inject and say, “Well what is true? Your definition of truth? My definition of truth? Or what is truth? Is truth measurable by what a yardstick?” How can truth be measured and verified? Let's consider what was quoted by the prophet Isaiah. In Isaiah chapter 46, verse 11, it says: Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it. [Isaiah 46:11 New King James Version]  Brother Bob: How is truth measurable? Not by a yardstick or some kind of measuring instrument like that. Truth is verifiable by its fulfillment. Like here, the prophet Isaiah quoting God saying, “What I have spoken, I will bring it to pass.” Very different than the word of men; we can say, “We will do this tomorrow, we will do that tomorrow or next week.” We don't even know if we'll be alive tomorrow or next week, it may not be within our human capacity to fulfill what we say. And therefore what we say, could not be verified as truth until it actually happens.