It is the final authority for all matters of faith and practice. The divine inspiration of Scripture starts with God. The words of the Bible were not self-initiated by the writers. Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow 1 Peter 1: God guided with the human authors of Scripture in the various things that they wrote or the sources that they used.
The author was guided to go where God wanted him to go, not where he wanted to go. Thus the Spirit of God guaranteed the accuracy of every thing that was written. This process extended until the time the document was written. The divine author of Scripture is God the Holy Spirit. Exactly how this process worked is a mystery. Scripture asserts that this did happen without explaining exactly how it happened. In addition, the Lord divinely selected the writers of Scripture - there was no volunteering for the job. While all Scripture is God-breathed, it is proper to say that the Bible is a book that is both human and divine.
Its ultimate source is God the Holy Spirit, yet God used human instruments to compose the books.
Today's Daily Devotion
When one reads the Scriptures, it immediately becomes apparent that the various authors employed different writing styles and different vocabularies. This gives evidence of the human side of Scripture. The writers of the Old and New Testament were not merely stenographers who mindlessly wrote what God dictated to them.
Their own experiences and personalities were involved when the various books were being composed. Ultimately, however, the final result was supernaturally guided by God. The Bible has all the features of a book written by human beings. However it also has features like no other book. Therefore, it is proper to say that the divine inspiration of the Bible has its source in God but that human instruments were used in writing and recording God's Word.
This is the biblical teaching on the subject. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth John The sum of your word is truth; and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever Psalm The result of divine inspiration is that the Bible is the very Word of God. This includes the works, the ideas, and the specific vocabulary of Scripture. Therefore everything written in Scripture is correct-there are no errors of any kind since the ultimate source is God.
This means that there are no errors of fact. The authority of Scripture only extends to the original manuscripts of the Old and New Testaments-it does not extend to any translations or any manuscript copies. Having said that, good translations of Scripture are, for all intents and purposes, the authoritative Word of God since they faithfully represent what the text says and means. The point here is that if an error is found in copying, or in some mistranslation in a particular version, it does not mean that the original was in error.
While divine Inspiration was both written and unwritten, today we only have the written part available to us. Scripture is that portion of divine revelation that God intended to be permanent and authoritative. When the word "inspiration" is used in reference to the Bible it means more than the Bible is inspiring literature. It has the idea of God-breathed Scripture. This is the claim of Scripture itself - it is not something that humans have invented. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry.
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