| To non believers and carnal beings, the Word | | | | judgment, experience, practicality or |
| of God is insignificant to them and their | | | | conformity to other beliefs or knowledge.The |
| lives. These people falsely challenge the | | | | Bible consists by definition of all written |
| infallibility and truthfulness of the Bible, | | | | material which is inspired by God.The Bible |
| by suggesting that it is merely a collection | | | | received entry as they were recognized by |
| of human written essays, letters and laws, | | | | Christian consensus to be inspired, and that |
| combined together to form a book that | | | | the composition was not of the church's |
| controls weak and foolish people.To faithful | | | | making.The inspired Bible is the 39 commonly |
| believers, the Word of God is The Holy Bible. | | | | received books of the Old Testament and the |
| It was written by men divinely inspired and | | | | 27 books of the New Testament, each as they |
| is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is | | | | were originally composed.The order of books |
| a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It | | | | is of little or no help in biblical |
| has God for its author, salvation for its | | | | interpretation.The words contained within the |
| end, and truth, without any mixture of error, | | | | Bible are all equally inspired and true, and |
| for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is | | | | are on the same level of inspiration and |
| totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the | | | | truthfulness as the words spoken by Jesus |
| principles by which God judges us, and | | | | Himself.Biblical revelation is progressive: |
| therefore is, and will remain to the end of | | | | while the quality of revelation never |
| the world, the true center of Christian | | | | changed, the quantity increased, so that the |
| union, and the supreme standard by which all | | | | fullest revelation comes with the completion |
| human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions | | | | of the later parts of the New Testament.The |
| should be tried.The Bible, in it's entirety | | | | Bible is completely inerrant, meaning that |
| and as originally composed, is the Word of | | | | everything it asserts explicitly or |
| God written.In every detail, both the form | | | | implicitly, on any subject, is true in the |
| and content of the Bible are inspired by God | | | | sense intended by the LORD GOD.The believer's |
| and essential to the message of the Bible.We | | | | confidence in the Spirit's authorship of the |
| declare that the assertions of the Bible are | | | | Bible should derive from the internal |
| absolutely true regardless of the distances | | | | conviction of the Holy Spirit Himself, rather |
| of time and culture.Any copy of the Bible is | | | | than from human authority, tradition, |
| profitable and remains the inerrant, | | | | intuition, personal appeal, or evidence.The |
| infallible Word of God, to the extent that | | | | doctrine of the complete inerrancy of the |
| its translation communicates clearly and | | | | Bible as originally written is absolutely |
| accurately the meaning intended by the words | | | | essential to any theology which would call |
| of the authors of the Hebrew, Aramaic and | | | | itself Christian, and that anything short of |
| Greek texts at the time they were written.The | | | | this is heresy and unbelief, and tends toward |
| Bible is the only authoritative source for | | | | the destruction of faith.Perceived |
| Christian faith and practice, and it is the | | | | inconsistencies or inaccuracies in the words |
| supreme standard by which all human conduct, | | | | or meanings of the Bible are the reader's |
| creeds, and opinions of any kind should be | | | | misperceptions.It is a worthwhile task to |
| tried.There is no realm of life, belief, or | | | | discover the resolutions of such apparent |
| investigation over which the Bible does not | | | | errors, but that some may be beyond present |
| have supreme authority.The authority of the | | | | human discovery, and that in any case it is |
| Bible derives solely from the fact that it | | | | unnecessary to resolve these conflicts to be |
| has God as its author, and not from | | | | confident of the complete truthfulness of the |
| recognition by any church, individual | | | | Bible. |