Thoughts Across The Bow

Theology: Inerrancy of Scripture Inerrancy is the doctrine that the Bible is fully truthful in all of its teachings. [1]   The word inerrancy is not found or defined in the Bible.  However, the writers of Scripture imply the full truthfulness of the Bible.  The doctrine of inerrancy has many far reaching implications connected to the Christian faith.  For if the Bible is not trustworthy, then our knowledge of God could be called into question and our knowledge of God could be unreliable.  The direct implication being that the very truth or hope of the Gospel could be called into question.  Inerrancy is also linked to the Bible being the authority in our lives.  The goal of this post is to simply explain the biblical foundation for inerrancy of scripture. Divine inspiration is directly tied to inerrancy, so it is wise for one to begin at inspiration.   The Bible in its original manuscripts was written by men divinely inspired by the...

Theology: Inspiration of Scripture Definition of Inspiration: The inspiration of Scripture can be defined as the supernatural influence the Holy Spirit had on the writers of Scripture that made their writings accurate, and resulted in what they wrote being the Word of God. [1]             Through reading of the Bible, one is faced with the claim and assumption that Scripture is the Word of God.   The goal of this post is to provide evidence that the Bible is the inspired Word of God and provide readers with biblical references supporting this claim.   For simplicity, this post will specifically use several portions of 2 nd Peter as a vehicle to support this claim (although there are other methods of arguing for inspiration).       Peter provides evidence that New Testament authors believed that the Old Testament was inspired by God.   Peter states, “Knowing this first of all that no prophecy...