Lets start by looking to see what the Bible says about itself.  2 Tim 3:16-17
"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."
           The word "inspired" here in the Greek Literally means " divinely breathed in" by God. You may ask what does it mean God breathed? God spoke through men to say exactly what he wanted said. At the same time he allowed us to see the personality of the writer without deviating from the message that he wanted put forth. So every word in our Greek and Hebrew Bible is really from God. Now that is quite a claim and it is reasonable for someone to question why they should believe this. Just because someone says that a book is the word of God or if it says that about itself does not necessarily make it true. For instance the Mormons tell us that the Book of Mormon is also the word of God. If  a book or set of books is actually the word of God there should be some sort of evidence to validate such a claim. If the Bible and the Book of Mormon are indeed the word of God they should be able to pass the following test.
1. It's contents should be beyond the ability of mans writing creativity.
2. It should be able to withstand the test of time and attacks of critics.
3. The historical part of it should be able to be confirmed with archeology, it should be historically accurate throughout its entirety.
4. It's prophetic messages should not be able to be proven false. There should be evidence to show past fulfillment of its prophecies.
5. Science should not be able to prove its message to be untrue.
6. Since the book claims to be ancient there should be some sort of manuscript evidence verifying its transmission of the text to be accurate.
7. Its message should have the ability to change people's lives.
           As I will show the Bible can pass all of these test validating its claim of being the word of God. The Book of Mormon however fails several of these tests.

1. It's contents should be beyond the ability of mans writing creativity. It should be remembered that the Bible is not just one book. The Bible actually contains 66 books. It has at least 40 different authors. It covers a time span of at least 1500 years. It was written on 3 different continents, Africa, Asia and Europe. The authors of these books were from different backgrounds or lifestyles. For example we have a doctor, kings, fisherman an ex-Pharisee etc. as authors. The Bible was also written in 3 different languages Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek. Now it is in theory impossible to get this many people of different walks of life, countries, cultures, time frames and languages to agree without conflict on controversial subjects such as God, sin, salvation etc. Well folks it happened with so much harmony that each book is not really complete without the other. These books together have one central theme (Jesus) the coming of the Messiah, His arrival and work and looking for his return. This would seem impossible unless one mind is behind it. This one mind cannot be man since its writings covered 1500 years. Man simply does not live that long. What other set of books can make such a claim as this?