The Bible: The Inerrant Word Of God

The Scripture cannot be broken.

John 10:35

A thousand times over,” wrote Barnard Ramm, “the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”

You can’t keep the Good Book down. The psalmist said, “The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times” (Psalm 12:6). The Hebrew term translated “pure” is used elsewhere to describe metals such as gold that were refined and absolutely pure, without the slightest defect or flaw.

This is the consistent teaching of Scripture about itself. On 3,808 occasions in the Old Testament, the biblical writers claimed to be writing the very words of God. In the New Testament, Christ confirmed the integrity of the Scriptures without the slightest doubt. The apostles trusted the Scriptures to the very word, and James called it “the perfect law of liberty” (James 1:25).

It is flawless. Because God inspired the Bible, it is inerrant and infallible. And because it’s inerrant and infallible, it is trustworthy and authoritative—to be trusted and obeyed.

Only the Book without error can correct and control our erring lives.

By affirming the inerrancy of the Scriptures, we place ourselves under the authority of all the teachings of the Bible.

ROBERT SAUCY