Divine Inspiration refers to the Holy Spirit's supernatural guidance of those who received special revelation from God as they wrote the books of the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible. The end result of this inspiration is that the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible conveys the truth which God wanted His people to know and to communicate to the world.

Divine Inspiration then is a statement about God's greatness. God is able to communicate with man whom He created in His image and likeness. God's knows everything about all reality in creation and is absolutely faithful and true. It follows that ideas communicated by divine revelation are true and conform to reality as God knows it. God overruled human limitations and sinful biases so that His spokesperson were able to write what He wanted written. God guided the thought conveyed so that it was without error, accomplishing the objectives He intended.

And indeed everything that was written long ago in the scriptures was meant to teach us something about hope from the examples scripture gives of how people who did not give up were helped by God. - Rom. 15:4 -

I wanted you to know how people ought to behave in God's family - that is, in the Church of the living God which upholds the truth and keeps it safe. Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is very deep indeed:
He was made visible in the flesh,
attested by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed to the pagans,
believed in by the world,
taken up in glory. - 1Tim. 3:15-16 -

It was revealed to them that the news they brought of all the things which have now been announced to you, by those who preached to you the Good News through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven was for you and not for themselves. Even the angels long to catch a glimpse of these things. - 1Peter 1:12 -

Then he will send you the Christ he has predestined, that is Jesus whom heaven must keep till the universal restoration comes which God proclaimed, speaking through his holy prophets. Acts 3:21 -

"Now I am making the whole of creation new" he said, 'Write this; that what I am saying is sure and will come true'. And then he said, It is already done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. - Rev. 21:5-6 -

Clear standards tested whether a person who claimed to speak for God was a true prophet or a false prophet. In all circumstances genuine prophets were inspired by the Holy Spirit as authentic spokesperson for God.

If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and offers to do a sign or a wonder for you and the sign or wonder comes about; and if he then says to you, "Come, then, let us follow other gods (whom you have not known) and serve them", you are not to listen to the words of that prophet or to the dreams of that dreamer. Yahweh your God is testing you to know if you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul. Yahweh your God you shall follow, him you shall fear, his commandments you shall keep, his voice you shall obey, him shall you serve, to him shall you cling. - Deut. 13:1-5 -

But the prophet who presumes to say in my name a thing I have not commanded him to say or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die. You may say in your heart, "How are we to know what word was not spoken by Yahweh?" When a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh and the thing does not happen and the word is not fulfilled, then, it has not been spoken by Yahweh. The prophet has spoken with presumption. You have nothing to fear from him. - Deut. 18:20-22 -

Although the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible does not tell exactly how God inspired its writers, its was certainly not in a mechanical way. God the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity who is working with persons. How does one person influence another person? Why do some have a more powerful impact upon people than others? Many factors are involved. We do know for certain that the Scriptures originated with God and that the writers were "moved" or "carried" along by the Holy Spirit as they recorded God's message.

At the same time we must be most careful to remember that the interpretation of the scriptural prophecy is never a matter for the individual. Why? Because no prophecy ever came from man's initiative. When men spoke for God it was the Holy Spirit that moved them. - 2Peter 1:20-21 -

The Holy Spirit's work in the life of the Virgin Mary is a good example of how the Spirit worked with the biblical writers. A fully human, a woman bore a sinless child who would be called the Holy One, the Son of God.

Mary said to the angel, 'But how can this come about since I am a virgin?' 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you' the angel answered and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. - Luke 1:35 -

Central to the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible teaching is love for God and love for neighbour. In short, there are three things that last: Faith, Hope and Love; and the greatest of these is Love. - 1Cor. 13:13 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -