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Inspiration
“For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21).
The believer is not called upon to define inspiration. How the Scriptures were inspired has not been revealed. It is enough to know that by them God is made known, that holy men of God testified by “the Spirit of Christ which was in them” (1 Peter 1:11), and that they minister Christ to our soul. Our Lord, too, when speaking of us to the Father said, “I have given them Thy Word” (John 17:14). After that, we read that the apostles and brethren prayed that “with all boldness they may speak Thy Word” (Acts 4:29). The result was that “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and spake the Word of God with boldness” (Acts 4:31). Believers knew that ministry in old times, and also by our Lord and His apostles, was the ministry of “the Word of God,” and that “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).
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