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