Dr Paul Allen

“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” ( Revelation 22:19 ) This final testimony and warning of Christ to those who profess to be His followers is a clear command not to either augment ( Revelation 22:18 ) or dilute the inspired “words” (not just “thoughts”) of the Bible. There are many people in the various cults following some leader who thinks he or she has received some new inspired word from God. That is very unwise.  But it is usually certain leaders in various denominations who presumptuously either cull out or explain away those Bible verses they consider unscientific or offensive in some way. That is even more dangerous, for those whose names are not found “in the book of life” will be “cast into the lake of fire” ( Revelation 20:15 ). Whether people, believe it or not, the Bible is the inerrant Word

Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God .” [Matt 22:29] The doctrine of biblical inspiration means that God breathed his own words through the consciousness of human writers. Men and women (such as Deborah, Hannah, and Mary) were moved by God the Holy Spirit so that the words they spoke or sung were the Word of God himself. Inspiration does not mean that God dictated the Bible to its human authors (except for those sections when God spoke directly to the writers, and they took down what he said, as is the case with much of Exodus and Leviticus ). Nor does the doctrine of inspiration mean that the human authors became mere automata while God made their hands move as he wished. In fact, quite the reverse is the case. Just as we experience an increased self-awareness in God’s presence and a blossoming of our talents as we encounter him, so the distinctive personalities of the human author's came to life as they wrote. Theol