We believe the Bible is the Word of God, not because it is an ancient book, but because it is true. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (II Timothy 3:16,17)

...Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 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 Spirit. (II Peter 1:20,21)

We believe the Bible is the divinely inspired, everlasting Word of God for the following reasons:

• The Old Testament accepted by Jesus as the Word of God

  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17, 189)

  Jesus often referred to the Old Testament in His teachings and preaching.

• The Bible is the product of a single Mind

  The sixty six books of the Bible were written by about forty different writers over a period of sixteen hundred years. Each of these writers contributed his part of the Bible, yet it forms one whole - no one contradicted what the other has said. The only explanation for this miracle is that they were all inspired by one Mind - the Mind of God.

  These men who wrote the Bible came from various kinds of backgrounds, education and classes, which makes it even more obvious that they were inspired by the same Spirit. Some of them were priests, such as Ezra; poets as Solomon; prophets, as Isaiah; shepherds, such as Amos; Kings, such as David; statesmen, such as Daniel; intellectuals, such as Moses and Paul and uneducated fisherman such as John and Peter. Of these some formulated laws, as Moses; others wrote history, as Joshua; some wrote psalms, as David; others wrote proverbs, as Solomon; some prophecies, as Jeremiah; others biographies, as the evangelists; others letters, as the apostles.

  The different writings were written in places as far as Arabia, Judea, the temple, the schools of prophets in Bethel and Jericho, Babylon and western civilization.

  For you search the scriptures; for in them you ye think ye have eternal life: and they are that they which testify of me. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote about me. (John 5:39, 46)
  
  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27)

• The types, symbols and ceremonies are evidences of divine inspiration of the Scriptures

  The written accounts of prophecies on the coming of Jesus Christ are wonderful, but even more wonderful are the predictions of Jesus in the lives of the patriarchs, the tabernacle and the temple, the services, the sacrifices, rituals and ceremonies which were types and shadows of what was to come in the New Testament.

  Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holiday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ. (Colossians 2:16,17)
  
  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (Hebrews 10:1)