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Here are just some of the ways God has revealed His Word to us.
Dreams: Dan. 7:1
Visions: Ezek. 1:1
The actual voice of God: Lev. 1:1
Symbols/object lessons: Jer. 19:1-15
Dictation: Rev. 2:1-3:22
Eyewitness reports: 1 John 1:1-3, Rev. 1:2
Guidance of the Holy Spirit 2 Peter 1:21
Expierience of men/testimony Ps. 23; 51
Historical research: Luke 1:1-4
Jesus Christ: John 1:14, Heb. 1:2
Even though God used a variety of different methods to produce the Bible, each verse is an inspired as the next. Every verse of Scripture is authoritative. Jesus acknowledged that not one letter or even one part of a letter would be changed until all Scripture was fulfilled (Mat. 5:18). There is no degree of inspiration on a particular part of Scripture, so that one verse is greater or less than another part of Scripture. Although there were varying degrees of knowledge about the subjects on which they wrote, the authors wrote exactly what God wanted written. Therefore God used a variety of ways to give us His Word (poetry, history, testimony, law, epistles, or biography), yet every word is His Word, complete and inerrant as a result of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (2 Tim. 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21).
Dreams: Dan. 7:1
Visions: Ezek. 1:1
The actual voice of God: Lev. 1:1
Symbols/object lessons: Jer. 19:1-15
Dictation: Rev. 2:1-3:22
Eyewitness reports: 1 John 1:1-3, Rev. 1:2
Guidance of the Holy Spirit 2 Peter 1:21
Expierience of men/testimony Ps. 23; 51
Historical research: Luke 1:1-4
Jesus Christ: John 1:14, Heb. 1:2
Even though God used a variety of different methods to produce the Bible, each verse is an inspired as the next. Every verse of Scripture is authoritative. Jesus acknowledged that not one letter or even one part of a letter would be changed until all Scripture was fulfilled (Mat. 5:18). There is no degree of inspiration on a particular part of Scripture, so that one verse is greater or less than another part of Scripture. Although there were varying degrees of knowledge about the subjects on which they wrote, the authors wrote exactly what God wanted written. Therefore God used a variety of ways to give us His Word (poetry, history, testimony, law, epistles, or biography), yet every word is His Word, complete and inerrant as a result of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (2 Tim. 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21).
