Why We Can Trust God's Word Without Conditions

Before doing this study, read the 1-minute introduction 3 Silly Excuses for Questioning the Bible's Credibility.

The passages below give us ample reason to fully trust God's Word:

1. The Bible is alive—not like any other book.

Hebrews 4:12: "For the word of God is living and active and full of power [making it operative, energizing, and effective]. It is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as the division of the soul and spirit [the completeness of a person], and of both joints and marrow [the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and judging the very thoughts and intentions of the heart." (AMP)

2. It is God-breathed—straight from God. And it provides all the information we need to accomplish God's will. 

2 Timothy 3:16-17: "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

3. The human authors only wrote what the Spirit told them to write.

2 Peter 1:20-21: "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."

4. Peter calls Paul's letters "Scripture." 

2 Peter 3:15-16: "Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."

See also Guilty Until Proven Innocent for another 1-minute encouragement about the trustworthiness of God's Word.


Copyright, Gail Burton Purath, 2014, BiteSizeBibleStudy.com, edited and updated in 2022

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