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If the Bible is written by sinful people, how can we trust it?
The Bible can be trusted, because God gave the writers inspiration from his Holy Spirit. Sin is a trait all of us have, yet we can still talk to and be inspired by God. The same way He leads ministers to give their message, by the Holy Spirit.
God did not entrust the spreading of his precious Word to just anyone. He chose holy men of old to transcribe what the Holy Spirit inspired them to write. The Bible says in 2 Tim. 3:16, that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, and equipped for every good work. The Greek word is theopneustos, which means "God breathed, inspired by God, due to the inspiration of God."
Our sin is not greater than God's grace and power. God is able to work through sinners, who have been saved by grace, to accomplish his will and to make sure the Bible is trustworthy and sufficient to give us what we need to know, and the most IMPORTANT thing to know....how to get to heaven. Those who have tried to add or take away from its message, have still never been able to ruin or destroy God's message of salvation through the ages. But they WILL receive a curse. Revelation 22:18
The differences of writing styles within the biblical documents, only reflect the different writers in different times. However, the Holy Spirit of God moved through all those writers, along with their personal styles, to produce documents that were accurate and without error.
2 Peter 1:20-21 - "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but HOLY MEN OF GOD spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
The disciple John, for example, was unschooled. It took the Holy Spirit to give him what to write. The part I find most astonishing, is that some obsess over the authenticity of the Bible, its origin and so forth, yet entirely miss the most important message of all time, and if you miss that, you've missed everything....which is the promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the Savior to the world. John 3:16
There are many books in the world, but the Bible is the only one that has the right to be called "The Book". It is different than all other books, teaching us spiritual truths. No other book has survived through the ages, nor printed for all throughout the world to read, than the Bible. The Bible is the only book on earth, where the author who died, is still alive. And shall be forevermore.
The Bible can be trusted, because God gave the writers inspiration from his Holy Spirit. Sin is a trait all of us have, yet we can still talk to and be inspired by God. The same way He leads ministers to give their message, by the Holy Spirit.
God did not entrust the spreading of his precious Word to just anyone. He chose holy men of old to transcribe what the Holy Spirit inspired them to write. The Bible says in 2 Tim. 3:16, that “all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, and equipped for every good work. The Greek word is theopneustos, which means "God breathed, inspired by God, due to the inspiration of God."
Our sin is not greater than God's grace and power. God is able to work through sinners, who have been saved by grace, to accomplish his will and to make sure the Bible is trustworthy and sufficient to give us what we need to know, and the most IMPORTANT thing to know....how to get to heaven. Those who have tried to add or take away from its message, have still never been able to ruin or destroy God's message of salvation through the ages. But they WILL receive a curse. Revelation 22:18
The differences of writing styles within the biblical documents, only reflect the different writers in different times. However, the Holy Spirit of God moved through all those writers, along with their personal styles, to produce documents that were accurate and without error.
2 Peter 1:20-21 - "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but HOLY MEN OF GOD spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."
The disciple John, for example, was unschooled. It took the Holy Spirit to give him what to write. The part I find most astonishing, is that some obsess over the authenticity of the Bible, its origin and so forth, yet entirely miss the most important message of all time, and if you miss that, you've missed everything....which is the promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the Savior to the world. John 3:16
There are many books in the world, but the Bible is the only one that has the right to be called "The Book". It is different than all other books, teaching us spiritual truths. No other book has survived through the ages, nor printed for all throughout the world to read, than the Bible. The Bible is the only book on earth, where the author who died, is still alive. And shall be forevermore.