WIBWIB Post #1

I. The Scriptures


I begin with the topic of the Scriptures because they are the basis for every other topic I will cover. If they were not inspired by our Creator and God then why must we obey their commands? If they contain errors then how can we know that anything written in them is true? And if they will not last and remain then how can we trust in them to be our guide? Therefore it is crucial to establish the Scriptures as the foundation and to establish that they are inspired, inerrant, and infallible.

1. The Scriptures Are Inspired

More than twenty men constituted the writers of the Holy Scriptures. They wrote at various times and various places and almost all of them never met. Yet all of the Scriptures fit together as perfectly as if it had been one writer. Yet we find that even if only one person writes an entire book, multiple errors are still to be found. For man is fallible and many times does not have the whole picture. But in the Scriptures we find no such errors. Why? It is without error because all those many writers had one thing in common. They were all inspired and directed in their writing by One who is infallible. God in His grace determined to leave us a record of His dealings with His people over the years, to tell us of His love for us throughout history, and to warn us of a coming judgment. And He chose to do this through humans. They each had a different style of writing, wrote to different audiences, lived in different cultures, and many times wrote in different languages. Yet when compiled all the different writers point to Christ. If you believe this could have happened by chance without a divine author then try this. Gather just three writers together. Assign a topic that all three are familiar with. Assign one to write about the topic from a historical standpoint. Assign the second to write about it from a philosophical standpoint. Then assign the third to write about the same topic from the standpoint of its effect on the future. Then look at the results you get. Could you just add their three works together just one after the other and have it make any sense? Or would their accounts contradict and differ greatly? And you merely had three writers writing in the same culture, same language, and same era. So if you think the writers of the Bible had no common thread of inspiration, think again.

Without the Inspiration of Scripture, there is no hope for salvation. If the writers were merely fallible men, then how can we trust that what they tell us is true? How can we the Bible when it says “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” if that is merely the opinion of one writer? Therefore the Inspiration of the Scriptures are a crucial foundation to our theology.

There are multiple verses that expressly indicate divine inspiration such as 2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…” and 2 Peter 1:20-21 “knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” There are also many references in the Old Testament that contain this phrase “The Word of the Lord to Israel by…” such as Ezekiel 1:3, Haggai 2:1, Zechariah 4:6, and Malachi 1:1. From these we can see an obvious example of God inspiring the writers.

2. The Scriptures Are Inerrant

The Inerrancy of Scripture succinctly put means that the Scriptures are without error. Throughout the ages many have come forward with apparent discrepancies that they have found in the Scriptures. However upon closer study it is discovered that the Bible always agrees with itself. Others will bring forward passages in which the Bible states something that is unscientific. But then science continues advancing and discovers that the Bible was right all along and it was the science that contained errors. This issue directly flows from the previous one. If you believe that the Bible is the Word of God, then you must believe that the Bible is without error. For how can an all powerful, all knowing God inspire men to write that which is false? He cannot lie, therefore any Word we receive from Him must be Inerrant.

3. Are Infallible

This subject is closely tied with the previous. In essence infallible means the Scriptures will last forever. God’s word is unchanging as it says in Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers, the flower fades, But the Word of our God stands forever.” Four times in the gospels in Matthew 5:18, Matthew 24:35, Mark 13:31, and Luke 21:33 Jesus states that “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will be no means pass away.” God’s Word lasts through all the ages. It was as applicable and accurate in the day it was written as it is today almost two thousand years later. Just as God is unchanging, His Word is also unchanging.