I Believe the Bible

In George Marsden’s book, “Reforming Fundamentalism” he stated that 85% of the students in one of America's largest evangelical seminaries stated that they do not believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. What do you believe about the Bible do you feel that you can rely on it? Certainly this is one of the most important questions that should be asked by a person and I’d like to examine the issues of both inerrancy and inspiration.
Essentially what we’re asking ourselves here has to do with where the Bible comes from and whether you can really trust it or not and I think the best place to start is to find out what the Bible has to say about itself. In 2 Timothy 3:16 the Bible says if itself that, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness” You’ll notice first if you look at that passage that it says, ‘all’ and of course you don’t need to be a Greek scholar to easily recognize what ‘all’ means. When I tell my son Bob to eat ‘all’ his peas at dinner I mean, as I say to him often that, “Everyone of his little green buddies needs to be in his belly, none left out.”
And so it is with this passage, ‘all’ means from the first word in Genesis to the last word in Revelation and every word in between is included. So we understand that we’re talking about ‘all’ or the whole of Scripture. All Scripture is what? Well it’s inspired, or God breathed. Just as right now I’m breathing out words of teaching into this microphone, God breathed out His Word into the Bible. Now this doesn’t mean that He sat Matthew down when He was ready to write the New Testament and told him to grab a pen and some paper and copy as He spoke.
No, God choose Matthew as His instrument through which He would work to produce this book, and as such we see the distinctive of the instrument in the personality of Matthew as he wrote yet it wholly remains the Word of God.
Now don’t miss the point here because it’s not that the book of Matthew or the entirety of the Bible for that matter contains the Word of God, no, the book of Matthew and the Bible as a whole is the Word of God. This is essential that you have this because it’s a place where false teaching worms it’s way in and begins to minimize God’s Word by calling into question portions of it.
Alright so we see that the Bible says that it is inspired or God breathed, but we also see that people within the pages of the Bible say also that it is inspired and without error. In 2 Peter 1:21 for example, the Apostle writes, “for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.”
This is just an illustration of what we see over and over again I the Word of God that it is just that, The Word of God. You can absolutely and completely trust every word of it. Of course when I think about the 85% of the students in the seminary that said they didn’t believe that the Bible was without error I have a hard time actually believing that it had anything to do with honest investigation of the validity of the Word and much more to do with a desire to dismiss portions they personally found inconvenient. As it has been rightly said, “Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them.”
This is the place where the children have such an advantage over adults. I’ve never seen a child in a Good News Club debate the inspiration of the Bible, and I know that some would say that this is because the children don’t know enough to do it but I am more inclined to believe that it’s because God has entrusted to them a special measure of faith that we would all do well to learn from. All they have to have is someone to tell them about Jesus and almost always they will trust in Him and believe.
How would you like to be one of the people that God worked through to take that Good News into the public elementary schools? We have an amazing opportunity to take the inspired inerrant Word of God into the schools and all we need is your help to make it happen. Will you visit our website at www.nochildleftout.net that’s nochildleftout.net for more information.
God Bless and be sure to live our your faith today.