Charles C. Ryrie

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Charles C. Ryrie

• God superintended the human authors of the Bible
  so that they composed and recorded without error
  His message to mankind in the words of their
  original writings.
• Basic Theology

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Dr. Lewis S. Chafer

• The inspiration of the Bible is defined as
  teaching that God so directed the human authors
  that, without destroying their own individuality,
  literary style or personal interest, His complete
  and connected thought toward man was recorded.
• Major Bible Themes

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Dr. Norman L. Geisler

• The Bible is the only book that both claims and
  proves to the Word of God. It claims to be
  written by prophets of God who recorded in their
  own style and language exactly the message God
  wanted to give to humankind. The writings of the
  prophets and apostles claim to be the
  unbreakable, imperishable, and inerrant words of
  God. The evidence that their writings are what
  they claimed to be is found not only in their own
  moral character but in the supernatural
  confirmation of their message, its prophetic
  accuracy, its amazing unity, its transforming
  power, and the testimony of Jesus who was
  confirmed to be the Son of God.
• Bakers Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics

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Dr. Edward J. Young

• Inspiration is a superintendence of God the
  Holy Spirit over the writers of Scriptures as a
  result of which these Scriptures posses Divine
  authority and trustworthiness and possessing such
  Divine authority and trustworthiness are free
  from error.
• Thy Word is Truth.

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Dr. Robert P. Lightner

• Inspiration is from the Greek theopneustos.
  As used in 2 Timothy 316, it means the Scripture
  was Breathed Out by God. this means the Holy
  Spirit of God superintended the human writers in
  the production of Scripture so that what they
  wrote was precisely what God wanted written.
• Handbook of Evangelical Theology

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Dr. Charles Hodge

• Inspiration was an influence of the Holy Spirit
  on the minds of certain selected men, which
  rendered them the organs of God for the
  infallible communication of His mind and will.
  They were in such a sense the organs of God, that
  they said, God said.
• Systematic Theology

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Class Definition from Summer 2002

• God breathed all of Scripture through chosen
  men actively using their unique personalities to
  record totally without error in all aspects (form
  and content) of its original writings.
• 17 June 2002

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Dr. Wayne Grudem

• The authority of Scripture means that all the
  words in Scripture are Gods words in such a way
  that to disbelieve or disobey any word of God is
  to disbelieve or disobey God.
• Systematic Theology, 73.

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Spring Class 2005 Thurs. AM

• The one and only Triune God exclusively
  God-breathed the writings of the Bible through
  chosen men actively using their distinct
  personalities to totally record without error His
  unbreakable, imperishable, and transforming
  revelation to humanity in order that they may
  accurately and intimately know His uncompromising
  truth for His glory and their best.

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Spring Class 2005 Thurs. PM

• God-breathed the original manuscripts of the
  Bible, actively using the distinctive
  personalities of holy men to pen progressive
  divine revelation totally without error,
  communicating Gods truth for His glory and our
  gain.

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Spring Class 2005 Thurs. PM

• God-breathed the original manuscripts of the
  Bible, to pen progressive divine revelation
  totally without error by actively using the
  distinctive personalities of chosen holy men to
  communicate Gods truth for His glory and our
  gain.