Inspiration And Inerrancy Of The Bible

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The inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible is crucial in lending credibility and authenticy to the Christian faith. If today the Bible could be shown to be fraudulent and be proclaimed not to be God breathed, our very salvation and knowledge of God would be in jeopardy; hence, it is crucial the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible be proved and justified. The theories of inspiration that scripture supports are the dynamic theory and the verbal theory; these two theories best embody what the Scripture says about Biblical inspiration.
Let us first define what inspiration means. Inspiration is the “work of the Holy Spirit in enabling the human authors of the Bible to record what God had desired to have written in the Scriptures” (Grenz, Guretzki, Nordling, 1999, pg. 66). Hodge adds this, the scriptures “are therefore infallible and of divine authority in all things pertaining to faith and practice, and consequently free from all error whether of doctrine, fact, or precept” (2013, pg. 152). These two defitions make it clear what is meant when the word inspiration is used.
After inspiration, let us move on to how much of the Bible is inspired. The view that biblical inspiration is only partial is false. The Bible is fully inspired; “All scripture is inspired by God” (2 Timothy 3:16). “First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy
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While this may sound like a contradiction, it is not. God in his power could have woven together the perfect personality in the womb, along with the circumstances of life to produce in the author the exact words that he wanted, yet leaving the author with complete control of the words he wanted to choose therefore producing a harmony between both of the theories of

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