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The word “inspiration” is found only once in the New Testament Scriptures. It is the well know passage, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” II Tim. 3:16. The word here is very fitting and mean
Inspiration is that act of God, whereby He moved holy men so that they infallibly, unerringly wrote the Word of God. This refers, of course, to the original manuscripts. We believe that these divine Scriptures, in their entirety, are the direct product of the living God and of the power of His grace
The King James Version, in line with the Latin Vulgate, speaks of Scripture being given by "inspiration" of God. The word in the Greek means literally "God-breathed." Scripture is God-breathed. That is what Scripture is and that accounts for how Scripture came into being. Scripture is the product o
3:16, he avers that the Greek term has nothing to say about inspiring or of Inspiration: it speaks only of a “spiring” or “spiration”. What it says of Scripture is, not that it is breathed into by God, “or is the product of the Divine inbreathing” into its human authors, but that it is breathed out
It is this inspiration that helps you capture beauty in words, in thought, and it is this inspiration that makes you feel spontaneous joy and spontaneous peace. And God gave you this incredible gift! Then there is the great ability to think. When you are creative in your own thinking you are disting
Janssen’s view of inspiration was called by him, “organic inspiration.” The trouble was that Janssen believed organic inspiration to be thought inspiration, i.e., God put various ideas in the minds of men who wrote the Scriptures, and these ideas were incorporated into the Scriptures in their own w
Janssen, first of all, made a distinction between mechanical and organic inspiration. In fact, he took the position that these were really the only two possible ideas of inspiration: one either believed in organic inspiration or one believed in mechanical inspiration. The difficulty was that he defi
But there is a spirit in man in the inspiration of the Almighty, giveth them understanding. Let's tear that apart a little bit. Objectively, we could say that the inspiration of the Almighty, the inspiration of the Almighty, is the Bible. This is the inspiration of the Almighty. The word inspira
But, you might ask, “What does that mean—what is inspiration?” And, of course, we cannot discuss that subject here for that would require a separate article, but we may say very briefly that it means that the holy men of God who wrote the books of the Bible did not just write down their thoughts bu
And thus we did, for only too well we knew from the past that our selected speaker would have nothing of this nature for us. But inspiration we needed and for an inspiration we had gathered. However, that true inspiration, as Rev. Hoeksema clearly stated, is not a matter of the emotion but a matter