The Bible is the written Word of God. What God has spoken has been recorded in words inspired by God. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (1 Tim. 3:16). Because the Bible is inspired of God, its words are truth (John 17:17). Holy men of God spoke and recorded God’s Word as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:20, 21). The Bible is not a compilation of men’s ideas; it is the truth as spoken by God Himself.

The God who inspired the words of Scripture has preserved those words through the ages. Our Lord said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35). Thus, either the very words of Christ remain with us, or He lied. Since Christ is God and cannot lie (Titus 1:2), we therefore still have His very words with us as they are recorded in the Bible. Christ Himself being truth (John 14:6), His words are therefore true. Among His words are His statements which verify the trustworthiness of all the Scriptures.

Therefore, when the Word of God speaks on any issue, it speaks with the authority of truth. It is to be believed. We are to live by it because we shall be judged by it (John 12:48; Rev. 20:12). Today many do not believe the Bible is God’s Word. Does their unbelief make His Word null and void? Let the Apostle Paul answer this question: “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar. . .” (Rom. 3:4). Rank unbelief thrives in this age under the guise of scholarship and intellectualism, and many tend to believe the unbeliever instead of the God of truth. As for me, I stand with the Psalmist who said, “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way” (Psalm 119:128). Where else could one ever hope to find the truth?