How Is The Bible The Inspired Word Of God?

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The Bible is the infallible, inspired, inerrant Word of the living God. I grew up hearing this from pastors, teachers and evangelists. I have come to believe that the Bible is indeed the inspired Word of God because the Bible itself claims it, Jesus and the early church fathers believed it, and textual unity supports it.
First, the Bible claims, “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” (2 Timothy 3:16, NLT). Here, the Greek word, theopneustos, really means expiration or breathing out (God-breathed). JohnF. Walvoord explains when he quotes B. B. Warfield, “In a word, what is declared by this fundamental passage is simply that the Scriptures are a Divine product, without any indication of how God has operated in producing them" (Walvoord 1959, 6). The Bible does not indicate how inspiration occurred; only that it did. …show more content…

Jesus based his life and work on the Old Testament, which he equated to the Word of God (Akin 2014). The church fathers repeatedly supported the inspiration of Scripture; from Augustine who not only affirmed the Bible’s inspiration, but also insisted that it was without error or imperfection to Martin Luther who called scripture, “God’s Word written” (Akin 2014). When John Wesley penned, “Scripture… is a most solid and precious system of divine truth” (Akin 2014), he was in effect saying that the Bible is 100% true and as such, inspired by

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