Inspiration of the Bible

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The Inspiration of the Scriptures

I Corinthians 16: 13--" Be on alert, stand firm in the faith . . .”

No other book tells people where they came from, where they are now, and where they are going--no other book but the Bible. The Bible is God's letter to man.

The Bible does not attempt to be a scientific book, but it is scientifically accurate.

The Bible tells its own inspiration story. The ultimate author of the Bible is the Holy Spirit of God (II Peter 1: 20, 21, II Timothy 3: 16, 17). That Spirit communicated through about 40 men over a period of 1500 years, yet it is still relevant. Most of those 40 men never met each other, yet the book that was written is woven together without inconsistencies.

Part of the claim to the inspiration of the Bible, if critics choose to not believe its own claims, is that the inspired writers knew things that humans did not know or could not have known at the time. Consider Isaiah 40:21 "Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? Isa 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in." Isaiah was writing at about 700 B. C. Magellan wouldn't sail on his history-making voyage around the world until 1532 A. D., proving that the world was round. So how could Isaiah know that the earth was a circle (was round)?

Job chapter 38 through 42 have a series of questions and answers for Job which leave him speechless. A number of scientifically verifiable facts have emerged from those questions, such as the one in 38: 25 about the way for the thunderbolt (finally discovered in the 20th century).

In 1440 B. C. God gave Israel commandments about health which today would be recognized as ways to keep from getting sick. By faith the Israelites followed them and were healthier than the nations around them ( Exodus 15: 26). Yet this was 3500 years before Pasteur would invent his germ theory with its ideas about quarantine and illness. How could those Hebrews have known about the spread of disease while wandering around in the desert so many years ago?

The Bible helps us become better people. The Bible helps us live at peace with ourselves (Philippians 4: 7) and with each other. The Bible helps us have better families and to have less stress in our lives. These are just a few of the reasons why we believe in the Bible and love its teachings.

By Lacey, Kati, Carlee, Tamara, and Alaynna--email us -->

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