2 Timothy 3:16-17All Scripture is God-breathed and is
useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in
righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly
equipped for every good work.
God inspired the writing of scripture, giving each writer
the thoughts and words to write down. For the Christian,
this may be reason enough to believe in the inerrancy of the
Bible. Still, the Bible withstands attacks by critics and
has stood firm through the centuries.
Inerrancy means that the Bible is without error. Some
hold to the fact that God inspired the important parts of
the Bible, i.e. the theology, but left the details up to the
individual writers and therefore it may contain some
historical inaccuracies. Most hold that inerrancy means that
every word of the Bible is true.
Time after time events of the Bible have been questioned
and archaeology has proven them to be true. Not only did the
events happen, they have occurred in the time frame that the
Bible says that occurred. This doesn’t mean that there
aren’t still questions, but not one bit of evidence has been
found that is contrary to what the Bible says.
The Bible is remarkable in its unity of thought. Moses
penned the first books in the 1400’s BC and Revelation was
completed in AD 95. From cover to cover it is the story of
God’s love. It is recorded in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
The authors of the Bible include farmers, shepherds, kings,
prophets, fishermen, a doctor, a tentmaker, and many others.
The fact that God was involved in the writing of the Bible
is obvious. No other book in all of human history is
comparable to the Bible.
So, nothing in the Bible has been able to be disproven.
Scripture itself tells us that God is behind the writing of
it. And there is a mountain of evidence that God is behind
the writing of scripture due to the unity in thought over
centuries of time, three languages, and dozens of authors.
The question that remains is not whether God is behind
the writing of scripture but whether as the source and
inspiration for scripture it can be anything but inerrant.
Is God capable of giving us a Bible that is incomplete,
misleading, or downright incorrect? The answer is no; we can
trust every word that God has given us to be true.
