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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>A Book that God Breathed</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.1"><meta name="keywords" content="Bible, Study, HowTo"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Biblestudy HowTo"><link rel="up" href="h2-importance.html" title="Chapter�1.�Importance of God's Word"><link rel="prev" href="h2-importance.html" title="Chapter�1.�Importance of God's Word"><link rel="next" href="h2-importance-works.html" title="A Book that Works"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">A Book that God Breathed</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="h2-importance.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter�1.�Importance of God's Word</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="h2-importance-works.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" title="A Book that God Breathed"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="h2-importance-breathed"></a>A Book that God Breathed</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Heb.4:12 </em></span>"<span class="emphasis"><em>For the word of God is living and active...
</em></span>" Jesus said <span class="emphasis"><em>(Mt.4:4),</em></span>
"<span class="emphasis"><em>It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that
proceeds [lit., is proceeding] from the mouth of God.</em></span>"
As we read the Bible, God's Spirit is there to speak it to our hearts in a continually-fresh way.
</p><p>2 Tim.3:16 declares, "<span class="emphasis"><em>All scripture is inspired by God [lit.,
God-breathed].</em></span>" Do you believe this? Before you answer, consider Jesus' attitude
toward the Scriptures. </p><div class="blockquote"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="blockquote" summary="Block quote"><tr><td width="10%" valign="top">�</td><td width="80%" valign="top"><p>He referred to the human authors, but took it for
granted that behind them all was a single divine Author. He could equally say
'Moses said' or 'God said' (Mk.7:10). He could quote a comment of the narrator in
Genesis 2:24 as an utterance of the Creator Himself (Mt.19:4-5). Similarly He
said, 'Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written', when what He
went on to quote is the direct speech of the Lord God (Mk.7:6 & Is.29:13). It
is from Jesus Himself that the New Testament authors have gained their
conviction of the dual authorship of Scripture. For them it was just as true to
say that 'God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets' (Heb.1:1) as it was to
say that 'men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God' (2 Pe.1:21). God did not
speak in such a way as to obliterate the personality of the human authors, nor
did men speak in such a way as to corrupt the Word of the divine Author. God
spoke. Men spoke. Neither truth must be allowed to detract from the other. ...
</p><p>
This, then, was Christ's view of the Scriptures. Their witness was God's
witness. The testimony of the Bible is the testimony of God. And the chief
reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that
Jesus Christ Himself taught it. </p></td><td width="10%" valign="top">�</td></tr><tr><td width="10%" valign="top">�</td><td colspan="2" align="right" valign="top">--<span class="attribution">John R.W. Stott, <span class="emphasis"><em>Christ the Controversialist</em></span>,
InterVarsity Press 1978, pp.93-95 </span></td></tr></table></div><p>2 Tim.3:16 goes on, "<span class="emphasis"><em>and profitable for teaching, for
correction, for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be adequate,
equipped for every good work.</em></span>" If we accept that the Bible really is God
speaking to us, it follows that it will be our authority in all matters of faith
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