The World and the Word

        The Inerrant and Infallible Word of God

God's Word can only be inerrant and infallible because it always speaks the truth. One of those truths is that humans are fallible. God's inspiration simply means that God gave His Word to holy men, but it also means that God allowed even pagans at times to write the truth into His Word. II Timothy 3:16-17 does not teach that God directly inspired every word in the Bible (KJB). It states that His Word was "given" to humans.

Many contend that God gave His Word to be preached so that all hearers can become saved by grace. But God also desires His Word to be preached to drive unbelievers away from His Church. The Church should rejoice when lost sinners become saved by grace, but the Church should also be glad when no one gets saved by grace because that means that God is keeping His Church clean of most sins and evil. John 6:65-66. In Isaiah 6:9-10, God instructed Isaiah to preach His Word for the express purpose of driving unbelievers away from faith in Him.

In John 6:41-66, Jesus deliberately preached about eating His flesh and drinking His blood in order to disgust unbelievers and drive them away from Him. John 6:52. Jesus knew that unbelievers who joined His Church would become apostates who would introduce a lot of false doctrine and discord into His Church. Jesus desired to keep His Church clean. The Holy Spirit does the same today.

In John 6:60-62, Jesus spoke directly to His true believers. He informed them that they alone would see Him ascend to Heaven, by which He meant that only His true believers would be able to see Him in His resurrected spiritual body. Jesus then clarified the meaning of His preaching. He told His true believers that His words were spiritual in their meaning. He wanted them to know that after He ascended the Holy Spirit would impart His broken flesh and shed blood to His believers in spiritual form so that all of His believers saved by grace would immediately know that their souls and spirits had been cleansed by His spiritual blood, and they would learn later from His Word that they would receive spiritual bodies at the Rapture of the Church because they would be thoroughly cleansed at that time by His spiritual shed water and forever saved in body by His broken flesh. Jesus will also impart a lesser form of salvation to the rest of humanity through His broken flesh. John 6:33; John 6:51; Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 2:14-15. Jesus further informed His believers that only those whom His Father knew would be capable of receiving His spiritual truth would be the ones who would be saved by direct inspiration from His Father. All of those who could not receive this spiritual truth walked away from Jesus, except one. John 6:66 and 71.

In John 6:67-69, the Apostle Peter demonstrated that he was one of those true believers who was capable of receiving by faith the spiritual truth that Jesus is God and His Savior. In Matthew 16:15-18, Jesus blessed Simon Peter because he received faith in Christ from direct inspiration from His Father. Jesus then announced that this form of direct inspiration of spiritual truth for salvation by grace would be the very foundation on which He would build His Church. John 3:16; John 5:24.

But in John 6:70-71, Jesus informed His disciples that one remained among them who rejected faith in Christ. The Devil sends some apostates into Christ's Church today, but the preaching of the true gospel drives most of them away.