Our verse:
2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is inspired and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."(NIV)

Christians call the Bible “inspired”. What exactly does that mean?

Inspiration means the spiritual mental physical process of God communicating through humans and to humans.
God chose certain of His followers and passed His thoughts to them. They wrote these thoughts down using their minds and hands. This was a living, dynamic process between God and the writer using different physical mediums- Stone, Clay, metal, parchment and ink.

Over the centuries, God preserved these written thoughts and instructions and moved other followers to gather them finally into the Bible, His book available to nearly every human being.
In this amazing multi-century download to us, God also let the writers include their own experiences, both sad and victorious. (Example- Jer 10) His message is clear. He shows life and its troubles graphically and how coming close to Hi m brings hope and real answers for life.

Some fear this “inspiration” process using humans could corrupt God's message. The solid, empirical evidence- many people living the Bible way over centuries and many fulfilled prophecies- proves it true. Jesus said- ““Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear. “ Mark 13:31

Our conclusions:
God communicated with us.
He used people to do it.
You and I can have total confidence that God preserved His words to us.

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