1. The Bible is…

2. Authentic, Integral, Accurate

3. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth

4. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God John 10:34-35 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’? If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside … Matt 5:18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

5. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God 1 Tim 5:18 For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.” 2 Peter 3:15-16 just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures

6. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God Jude :17-18 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” 1 Thes 2:13 And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God

7. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God / God Breathed 2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness 2 Peter 1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

8. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God / God Breathed 2 Sam 23:2 The Spirit of the L ORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. Gal 1:12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. 1 Cor 2:13 not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 1 Cor 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you:

9. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God / God Breathed Powerful Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Acts 2:37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

10. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God / God Breathed Powerful Practical Deut 29:29 The secret things belong to the L ORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. Luke 11:28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

11. Authentic, Integral, Accurate Truth Words from God / God Breathed Powerful Practical A Choice John 8:31-32,37 Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free… Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word.