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Men Affected by Culture and Circumstances

By Joe Felim

To faithful believers, the Word of God is The Holy Bible. It was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried.

To non believers and carnal beings, the Word of God is insignificant to them and their lives. These people falsely challenge the infallibility and truthfulness of the Bible, by suggesting that it is merely a collection of human written essays, letters and laws, combined together to form a book that controls weak and foolish people.

The Bible, in it’s entirety and as originally composed, is the Word of God written. In every detail, both the form and content of the Bible are inspired by God and essential to the message of the Bible. We declare that the assertions of the Bible are absolutely true regardless of the distances of time and culture.

Any copy of the Bible is profitable and remains the inerrant, infallible Word of God, to the extent that its translation communicates clearly and accurately the meaning intended by the words of the authors of the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts at the time they were written.

The Bible is the only authoritative source for Christian faith and practice, and it is the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions of any kind should be tried. There is no realm of life, belief, or investigation over which the Bible does not have supreme authority.

The authority of the Bible derives solely from the fact that it has God as its author, and not from recognition by any church, individual judgment, experience, practicality or conformity to other beliefs or knowledge. The Bible consists by definition of all written material which is inspired by God.

The Bible received entry as they were recognized by Christian consensus to be inspired, and that the composition was not of the church’s making. The inspired Bible is the 39 commonly received books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament, each as they were originally composed.

The order of books is of little or no help in biblical interpretation. The words contained within the Bible are all equally inspired and true, and are on the same level of inspiration and truthfulness as the words spoken by Jesus Himself.

Biblical revelation is progressive: while the quality of revelation never changed, the quantity increased, so that the fullest revelation comes with the completion of the later parts of the New Testament. The Bible is completely inerrant, meaning that everything it asserts explicitly or implicitly, on any subject, is true in the sense intended by the LORD GOD.

The believer’s confidence in the Spirit’s authorship of the Bible should derive from the internal conviction of the Holy Spirit Himself, rather than from human authority, tradition, intuition, personal appeal, or evidence.

The doctrine of the complete inerrancy of the Bible as originally written is absolutely essential to any theology which would call itself Christian, and that anything short of this is heresy and unbelief, and tends toward the destruction of faith. Perceived inconsistencies or inaccuracies in the words or meanings of the Bible are the reader’s misperceptions.

It is a worthwhile task to discover the resolutions of such apparent errors, but that some may be beyond present human discovery, and that in any case it is unnecessary to resolve these conflicts to be confident of the complete truthfulness of the Bible. The Bible infallibly accomplishes all the purposes for which it was intended.

All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” (John 1:1-2 AV)

And that is where the focus must be….the divine revelation of Christ. Jesus Christ IS the Word of God. To suggest that the writings in the Word of God is affected heavily by culture and personal circumstances, would falsely suggest that Christ is the creation of man. He is not.

Jesus Christ is the Word of God, and the begotten son of the LORD GOD. The Bible, which expresses this Word of God is inerrant, infallible, inspired by the LORD GOD and absolutely true regardless of time or culture. To know this truth, a man must be led toward it by the LORD GOD himself. To question it, sometimes reveals that process is beginning!