Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 01205 Anyone who reads John’s Gospel and then turns to Revelation notices something immediately. The Gospel and the epistles flow in relatively polished, elegant Greek. Revelation does not. Sentences break grammatical rules. Case endings that should follow standard Greek convention do not. Scholars have catalogued dozens of what are technically called solecisms — violations…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1010 Special revelation is God’s direct, personal communication of truth that we could never discover on our own. Whilst general revelation (what God shows us through creation) tells us that God exists, special revelation tells us who God is and how we can know Him. Biblical Evidence The writer to the Hebrews puts it…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1080 The Bible itself mentions books that we do not possess: the Book of the Wars of the Lord, the Book of Jashar, letters Paul apparently wrote to Corinth before our “1 Corinthians.” Were these inspired Scripture? Have we lost parts of God’s Word? Should we be troubled that our Bible is incomplete? Books…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1077 We do not possess the original manuscripts of any New Testament book. What we have are copies of copies. For some people, this raises an unsettling question: how do we know that the text we read today accurately reflects what the apostles actually wrote? Has the message been corrupted through centuries of hand-copying?…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1070 If the Bible is truly God’s Word—inspired by Him in every part—then a natural question arises: does it contain errors? Can we trust everything it says? The doctrine of biblical inerrancy addresses this question directly, affirming that Scripture, in its original manuscripts, is entirely true and without error in all that it affirms….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1068 When Christians speak of the Bible as “inspired,” they mean something quite specific—something far more than calling Shakespeare inspired or saying an artist had an inspired moment. Biblical inspiration is a technical theological term describing how God produced Scripture through human authors. Understanding this doctrine is essential for grasping why Scripture carries divine…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1069 Among the various views Christians have held regarding biblical inspiration, “verbal plenary inspiration” represents the historic evangelical position. This technical phrase captures two essential truths about how God gave us Scripture: the inspiration extends to the very words (verbal), and it encompasses all of Scripture equally (plenary). Understanding this doctrine helps us grasp…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1066 This is perhaps the most fundamental question anyone can ask about Christianity. If the Bible is not truly God’s Word, then our faith rests on nothing more than human opinion and religious tradition. But if it is what it claims to be—the very words of the living God—then everything changes. Our lives, our…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 1071 When we talk about the Bible being infallible, we’re making a statement about its trustworthiness and reliability. This isn’t just academic theology—it touches on whether we can actually trust what God has said to us. If Scripture can fail us, then where does that leave our faith? Defining Infallibility Biblical infallibility means that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1073 How did we get our Bible? Who decided which books should be included? These are fair questions, and the answers reveal something wonderful about God’s providence in preserving His Word for His people. The formation of the biblical canon wasn’t a matter of church councils imposing authority—it was the Church recognising what God…