THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD
The Bible is inspired because God is not silent, and never has been; the God who spoke the worlds into being still speaks, not with thunder now, but with the quiet authority of words preserved and breathed upon by His Spirit. When Scripture says, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16), it dares to claim that behind every line, every promise, every warning, there is a divine breath; not the breath of poets searching for beauty, nor of historians reaching for clarity, but of God—steady, sure, life-giving. It is not that holy men wrote lofty thoughts and God nodded in approval; it is that He moved them, guided them, carried them along, so that their words became His word, and their voices became His voice.
And because Scripture is breathed out by God, it carries a weight the world cannot imitate; it comforts the broken, steadies the fearful, humbles the proud, and awakens the dead. Ordinary sentences become burning bushes; familiar verses become the whisper of Christ walking beside us, reshaping our thoughts, exposing our sins, and lifting our eyes to the cross. When we read Scripture, something happens that cannot be explained by ink or grammar—our hearts are pierced, our minds are renewed, our doubts are softened, and hope quietly rises like dawn over a weary soul. Only God can do that, and He does it through the word He breathed.
This inspiration does not mean that every mystery is simple or every passage easy; it means something far better—that the God who cannot lie has spoken truth, pure and unbroken, truth that stands when empires fall, truth that keeps its promises when all others fail, truth anchored forever in the risen Christ. Scripture does not merely contain truth; it is truth, because it comes from the One who is truth. And when Jesus said, “Your word is truth” (John 17:17), He tied the Bible to His own character—unchanging, faithful, eternal.
So we open the Bible not as archaeologists dusting off relics but as disciples leaning close to hear our Master; not as critics seeking flaws but as children hungry for bread; not as doubters searching for cracks but as believers listening for the Shepherd’s voice. And we find Him there—speaking still, comforting still, calling us into the light, shaping us by the very words He breathed. Inspiration made simple is this: the Bible is God talking—and when God speaks, everything changes.
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