Unleashing God’s Word In Your Life, Part 2: About the Author
Unleashing God’s Word In Your Life
Lesson 2—About the Author
- God is the author of what Scripture records; the Bible is the very Word of God.
- Revelation = the message.
- Inspiration = the primary method of delivering that message to mankind.
- What inspiration is not:
- A high level of human achievement.
- Limited to the thoughts of the writers.
- The act of God on the reader.
- Mechanical dictation.
- The elements of inspiration.
- “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Tim 3:16).
- “God-breathed” – theopneustos = God + breath.
- “All” – pasa = every.
- “Scripture” – graphe = writing.
- Inspiration is God’s revelation communicated to us through writers who used their own minds—plenary verbal inspiration.
- The results of inspiration.
- The Bible is infallible, inerrant, complete, authoritative, sufficient, and effective.
“He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God” (Jn 8:47)
