The World and the Word

       The Inerrant and Infallible Word of God

In the matter of sins of weakness, God holds believers saved by grace to a higher standard than He does those who have no law or only part of the law. Luke 12:48. God recreates the souls and spirits of all believers saved by grace, thoroughly cleanses them with the spiritual blood of Christ, and gives them the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself which ensures their entrance into Heaven. I Peter 1:3-4; I Corinthians 6:11; I Corinthians 1:30. The inner beings of believers saved by grace cannot sin because they have been recreated and possessed by the Spirit of Christ. I John 3:9. But God allows believers saved by grace to retain their fleshly natures which can commit sins of weakness and, rarely, even deliberate, evil sins. God requires believers saved by grace to repent every day of their fleshly sins and be washed clean by the spiritual water that Jesus shed on the cross. John 13:1-14. Believers who fail to daily repent lose their fellowship with Christ. John 13:8. Christ cannot fail in anything He does. Philippians 1:6. Therefore, Christ will make sure that every believer saved by His grace will eventually repent and be washed in the spiritual water of His Word so that He can accept His Church and all others saved by His grace to live with Him in Heaven. I Thessalonians 3:13; Ephesians 5:25-27.

God expects believers saved by grace to live righteous lives because the presence of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts should so radically change their behavior and desires that they no longer desire to sin. Galatians 5:16-26; Romans 12:1-2. But God, like a Father, will punish believers saved by grace for their correction and repentance when He will often ignore sins of weakness in unbelievers. Hebrews 12:1-11. But God has appointed human law and courts to punish evildoers. Romans 13:1-5. God will also sometimes punish believers saved by grace who commit deliberate evils by taking their earthly lives and bringing them home in disgrace. I John 5:16.

God's written Word can only be inerrant and infallible because God had it written in such an ingenious way that it will cause unbelievers to reject it, partly because of its contradictions, but it will also compel believers to accept its truth because the Love of God shines through every word of it. God does not desire that unbelievers who pretend to be believers should join His Church because they will be agents of the Devil who will spread false doctrine and disharmony in order to confuse true believers. The powerful, written Word of God will keep most of them out of Christ's Church. John 6:66. Even so, the Apostles Paul, Peter, and Jude warned the Church that Satan would send apostates into the Church to introduce false doctrine and confusion. II Peter 2:1-3; Acts 20:29-31. But despite all this, it remains quite miraculous that the basic doctrine of salvation by grace has stayed the same in all true Christian Churches despite all the confusion and false doctrines sowed by the apostates. Acts 20:28; Ephesians 5:25-27.

The Love of God manifested in Jesus Christ is the inerrant and infallible Word of God. John 1:1. God causes His Love to shine through every written Word for believers saved by grace. The Holy Spirit revealed in God's written Word also causes unbelievers to reject His grace partly because of the evil in them and partly because of its contradictions. Believers saved by grace can explain some of the seeming contradictions by the use of unseen facts and logic, but some they cannot explain. But believers saved by grace should not be concerned about contradictions they cannot explain because God allowed them to be put into His Word to teach the inerrant and infallible truth that humans are fallible and for the purpose of driving apostates away from His Church. John 6:66.