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What Do We Believe About the Bible?

Here’s your weekly word of biblical encouragement from Bibles.net! Enjoy this short video devotional or read its contents below, adapted from a message by Pastor Britt Merrick.

The video above might just move you to read the Bible with eagerness and joy today!

God’s Word is the full and final authority for God’s people. It’s God’s Word, it’s not man’s word. It’s inerrant. It’s infallible. It’s true in everything that it asserts and teaches. It’s God’s revelation to us. God’s Word is the full and final authority for the way that we think, act, and live as God’s people.

And Scripture claims this about itself abundantly.

Look here in 2 Timothy where we read, “All Scripture is God-breathed”—God-breathed—“and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16 ESV). Right? Everything that we need for life! “…so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:17 ESV).

Look now at what Peter wrote: “Above all, you must realize that no prophecy in Scripture ever came from the prophet’s own understanding, or from human initiative. No, these prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God” (2 Peter 1:20-21 NLT).

And again, Peter would say, “You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring Word of God. For, ‘All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:23-25 NIV).”

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Britt Merrick

The Bibles.net Weekly Word gives you weekly encouragement through a carefully chosen portion of a Bible-based message preached by a faithful Bible teacher. This content was adapted from the message, “The Problem with Religion” on Matthew 15:1-20, by permission of Reality Church in Carpinteria, CA, and Pastor Britt Merrick.

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