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The Bible, in all its entirety, represents complete truth because it is God-breathed, it is impossible for God to speak falsely on any matter, it is certain that no fact will ever contradict the Word that has been spoken by God, and God, being the ultimate authority, has total knowledge of any subject or question. I came to this conclusion by reading Bible Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem, reading selected texts from the Bible itself, and through group discussions had in class. “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (English Standard Version 2 Tim 3:16). In 2 Timothy 3:16 we can clearly read that the Scripture is, in fact, given directly from God, from His own mouth. According to Wayne Grudem, author or Bible Doctrine, “to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God” (Grudem 39). Faith in God relies on complete trust and submission by His people, and to accomplish that, we must believe the entirety of Scripture. “So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the …show more content…
Scholars of the past believed that, according to David, the earth remained at a fixed point and, therefore, any new discovery about the earth moving would be false. However, David’s words do not specifically state that the earth is fixed in space. Instead, he is simply stating that, from his perspective, the sun does revolve around the earth (rises in the east and sets in the west). With all of this taken into consideration, the Bible is not false in the words given and neither are the scientists who discovered the earth’s revolution. It was simply a matter of not having the required information to correctly understand all that was being said. Christians simply need to be cognizant of the possibility of an incorrect interpretation rather than a wrong

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