The authority of Christ really settles the issue of an inspired text.

If there are errors in the Bible and he didn't know about them, he's not God.

If there are errors in the Bible and he knew about them and covered them up, he's the devil.

But he is God and he is not the devil and there are no errors in Scripture.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

The English novelist Samuel Butler once said,

The Bible may be the truth, but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

That seems to be the prevailing viewpoint today, sadly even among some professing Christians.

So why should you have confidence that the Bible you read, all of it, is true?

And what should you say to someone who thinks the Bible's a good book that it has a lot of wise moral teaching, but it's not really from God? John MacArthur answers

those questions today on Grace to You, showing you how God gave us His Word. The title of his

current study, Making a Case for the Bible.

And here's John now with the lesson.

What is the doctrine of inspiration?

Let me just give you some little categories to think in, okay?

Revelation, revelation is the content.

Revelation is the content. It is God's disclosure of his truth.

Inspiration is the vehicle. In revelation, God makes himself known. In inspiration, the Spirit of God takes the revelation and puts it through the mind of human

writers in the Old and New Testament who write it down as it flows from God the Holy

Spirit through their minds.

What they write down is the exact and authentic words that constitute the message God wants

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