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The Bible wasn't written by people—it was written through them.

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Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of Walk With Me. I'm your host, jj. It's so good to have each and every one of you and I know you hear me say this every single week but I absolutely love and appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you for those who are liking and sharing and talking about this in the various social media groups. Thank you all for your questions. Thank you for your comments groups. Thank you all for your questions. Thank you for your comments, even the ones when you disagree with me. I say thank you to those too, because it helps me maybe explain some things that maybe I kind of grazed over, and it helps me study, because we need to know what is right. We don't just walk through or just kind of stumble our way into heaven. We got to know what's right and we have to make sure we avoid false doctrine, because the Bible speaks very strongly against false doctrine. So thank you all so much, because iron sharpens iron. Thank you all so much. Thank you, love you, each and every one of you. You could be listening to any other Bible podcast, but you've taken a few moments to listen to this one and I appreciate that. I thank God for each and every one of you, because without God, none of us would be here. You wouldn't be listening to this podcast. So I thank God for each and every one of you.

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Thank God for my sponsors Exquisite Creations, iron Gate Ministries and True Bar's, lyricist with the intro and the outro. He's been working on a few projects. Hopefully he'll be able to get around to helping us out with some more music. Man, he's on a journey. So I thank God for each one of those sponsors. Thank God for you. Thank God for God. Thank God for each one of those sponsors. Thank God for you. Thank God for God. Thank God for salvation. And you may have noticed a little bit of a change in my voice. Something's happening. Something's happening and God has taken us to a new level and I appreciate that and I want all of you walkers to come along with it, because we are all on this journey together. We are all on this journey together. Even if you don't feel like heaven is really going to be your thing, we're still on this journey of life together. So I want to see everybody in heaven, but we know that not everybody is going to go. I know that kind of sounds like a Debbie Downer. But the whole idea is that we, each one of us, each one of you walkers, each one of us, make our calling and election. Sure, we have to do what God is requiring of us to get into heaven, and the only way we're going to find out what that is is by reading his instruction. Those instructions are in the Bible.

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All right, and thank you for the question about the follow-up question about where we got our Bible to, because it's gonna inspire is is actually we're going to talk about the inspirations of how we got our Bible. We're going to just jump right into it. You know a lot of people when you talk to them about the Bible, and I used to get mad when people say this, but I understand what they mean. I used to get mad when people said this, but I understand what they mean. I used to get mad and they would say well, you know how do you believe in a book that's written by man? We talked about this last week and I just get mad about it and I'm not sure why I always got so mad about it. I just did, I just got so mad about it, but it is because the man put the pen on the paper in most cases. There are a few cases where God's hand came out of thin air and wrote on the wall, so we don't want that because that had a very bad scenario. Hopefully I can get to that today, but 99.99% of the time, god verbally inspired the word of God, the Bible that you see in your hand.

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Now we're talking about the original. We're not talking about some of the translations. We can talk about that because verbal inspiration means that each word is inspired and this is inspired in the original writing. Now, I get it. Mistakes can be made by the translators, like if you translate a word wrong or incorrectly, like we talked about before, the word Easter not appearing in the original text, but that word is Pascha, which is Passover, like those kind of mistakes. But that was not in the original. The original was verbally inspired. The original was verbally inspired.

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So if the Bible is verbally inspired, there can be no error, because there can't be any errors, because God is God and God doesn't make any mistakes, and I'm going to say this again for the people in the back God does not make any mistakes. Even the mistakes that you think God made. God did not make any mistake, even the mistake that you think God made, god did not make them. Okay, now, on the other hand and let's play the advocate here, because I do believe in you know, because God is a God of reason as well, and so we have to kind of think it through that if, on the other hand hand, that the bible was not fully verbally inspired, then the assumption that you would have to make is that some parts would be from god and then other parts would be from people, and then that's where how you would end up with um errors, because people are imperfect, you know, and that's just the way that goes.

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Now, if it's, if it's only thought inspired, so we just carry. We just covered two different inspirations one fully verbal inspired, a partial verbal inspiration, and now a thought only inspiration. So if the thought only, if the thought itself is inspired, then the Bible kind of contains the word of God, but not exactly in its essence. So, basically, you get a thought and then you try to write it down, but as you write it down, you write it down in your voice, which means it's no good, it's an absolute error, and this is how you end up with people thinking that there are contradictions in the Word of God because they are taking their interpretation of what was said and comparing it to something else that was taken out of context. That's how you end up with a lot of these errors. Now the Bible gives us reason for believing and understanding and accepting that these inspirations were done fully, verbally.

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A lot of scriptures in the Bible that talk about it, and so before we get into those, remember y'all, remember you walkers, you walkers who've been here a while. You guys know the rule, but you guys who are new here, we have a rule on this podcast, and that rule I'm going to tell you now because we're about to go into it. That rule is when we talk about a scripture, we'll often truncate it through the time. We have a limited amount of time, so the assignment when we talk about scripture is to read a verse or two above or a verse or two below, but preferably the entire chapter. Why? Because context is key we were just talking about. Context is key. Context is everything. God is talking to you. When you're talking to someone else, you know how many problems get started because somebody hears half a conversation and this is just between person and person, let alone if somebody tries to read the Bible and only reads parts. It just doesn't work very well. Context is key.

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So here's just a few of the examples where the Bible tells us how we are supposed to understand the inspiration of God. Now, in Moses we hear it written like this In Exodus, chapter 20, god spake these words. Exodus 24 and 4, moses wrote all the words of the Lord. So in other words, the Lord said it, moses wrote it down. Exodus 35 and 1, these are the words which the lord has commanded again. God said it. Moses wrote um. David did the same thing, and these are the writers telling us where they're getting this stuff from. David second.

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Samuel 23, 2. The word was in my tongue, his word was in my tongue, his word was in my tongue. And let me just say by saying this stuff, I don't want to trivialize the word of God. I'm saying that what those words we see on the page in the original, these writers are telling us. This is where he got it from. I just want to clarify that, because you know the devil's business. Isaiah said it.

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Isaiah 1 and 2, the Lord has spoken. This is not a thought to thought transfer, but a word to ear transfer. Jeremiah 1 and 4, the word of the Lord came unto me. 1 and 9,. I have put my words in your mouth. I am telling you what to say. You say what I pay to say, no more, no less. Ezekiel, 1 and 3. The word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel, so it only Ezekiel was in a crowd and Ezekiel was the only one that heard it. Amos, 1 and 1. The words which he saw concerning Israel. He saw those words Like written on a paper and he wrote those words. And God showed him John Revelation 1 and 1. The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him.

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Now it is true that even though God was talking to these writers, all these writers we just mentioned, and there's so many even though God was talking to these writers, they didn't exactly understand what they were writing. Writing so they may have been writing it in their interpretation, but not with their thoughts. So God would give the words but not the thoughts. So when it says the prophets have inquired and not ministering unto themselves, but unto us, this is what happened at 1 Peter, 1, uh. 1, 10 through 12, daniel did not understand all he wrote. Now this is you see this in daniel 12, 8 and 9, uh. Did david understand about the parting of the garments and the piercing of the hands and feet and psalms. He probably didn. And you could kind of know when, especially when, kind of a revelation that God will throw a revelation in there while he's talking to you and the revelation will kind of not make sense or not kind of go with the conversation, but it will, and it's really still hard to explain. That's something I still have to flush out, but it's just something that I have noticed lately in the study. Um, now, if now let's go back and we talk about the how the bible could be incorrect and I know that sounds blasphemous and I don't want you to turn this podcast off, but I'm going to explain how if it weren't correct this is why it wouldn't be correct if the bible were not verbally inspired, um, then it would be incorrect.

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But there are important things that are based on simple words, like in Hebrews 12 and 27,. And it's quoting from Haggai, haggai 2 and 6. Yet, once more, you will see this a lot, where you will see things that are quoted from section to section A section in the New Testament, mostly a section in the Old Testament, and there are there's importance in how the verb tenses are Like in Luke 20 and 20, sorry, 20 and 37,. It says I am Not, I was Not I. He says I am Not, I was Not, I will be I am. Now there's even importance that are placed on a mere letter, galatians 3.16.

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S and seed is capitalized and it's not seeds and it's not seeds and it's not seeds. It's one seed, not seeds. So the S is not capitalized I got the nose picked out but it's seeds, not seeds. And this is where, now that I think about it, this is where I get so upset with people who talk about offering as seed. That's not that's. I don't know where y'all got that from. That clearly is not biblical. The seed is always to grow and grow fruit and the only thing that grows and grows fruit, that grows our spirit and grows fruit, is the preaching of the word. So I'm not sure where people get this from, but it won't happen, not with me.

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As a matter of fact, there's I often tell this story all the time about my first witnessing attempt and I was talking to a Jehovah Witness and we wrestled over John one and one for like three weeks before I finally figured out what was different about their John 1 and 1 and my John 1 and 1. They put the letter A in front of the last God in that sentence and then they made that capital G a lowercase g and that changes the entire Bible. That those two changes right there, changes the entire, the entire Bible. It throws so many contradictions now, because if all power is given unto me, then the power that God in heaven has no power and it just does so much just from that. Those two little changes. That's why having the right version is important.

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Now there are um, there's sciences that are in the bible that you can actually prove um, even though um, the ideas of the world at that time was incorrect, like people believed then, that the earth was flat. But the science in the bible would prove that the earth was round. But they didn't understand that. They couldn't understand that. So they still did things and behaved as if it were flat. Now the testimony of Christ does prove that the Bible was verbally inspired. Look at Matthew, chapter 18. This is not one jot or tittle 18. This is not one jot or tittle.

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The crossing of a T or a dotting of an I is so important and it's not thought inspired Because I can tell you a thing and then you can interpret what I said and when you internalize the thought, that would be like preaching. So if I'm preaching to somebody and I'm speaking and God has given me a word to say, that word may sit on you differently, because that's inspired by God through the word of God, but I'm the one saying it if that makes any sense. But I'm the one saying it if that makes any sense. Likewise, if I tell you you know, there's a crazy thing going on across the street, that word crazy is a little ambiguous because the word crazy might mean a different thing to you than it does to me. We don't have that sort of luxury when it comes to the word of God. It has to be exactly the way he says it, how he says it and why. Because of the why he says it. Now listen, and I gotta fix this because we have to make sure that we get this nailed down If the Bible were part divine and part human, how would you be able to tell which is which?

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You can't? And this is where a lot of people, in their subconscious, they're thinking that the Bible well, the Bible's real, but some parts of it were written by man. Because of this part that I don't like. And now you have to say, and what they do is they sort of end up buffet picking the parts of the bible that they do like. Oh, the meat shall inherit earth, and let's start the lowly, because they show. You know, it's all the nice, flowery part, but no one wants to, um, really accept the fact that there are many there and that go into the path of destruction and health has enlarged herself, fail. So you know those kind of things, those kind of scriptures, and and you know, this is holiness, that's not holiness, and how, this is how we should behave and treat each other and that's not how we should behave and treat each other. You can, we end up getting to this, and I believe this is out of the book of jj. Okay, this is how I believe that we started getting denominations, because at some point we started thinking instead of just doing.

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The Bible became part divine and part human or fully divine and part human or mostly human, and a little bit of divine, part human or mostly human and a little bit of divine. And so when you start, when you start taking on that mantle of what is divine and what is human and what is not. Then you start being able to get rid of things out of the bible, just skip over them. Oh, you know what? I'm a preacher and I'm involved in adultery, so I'm not going to preach against adultery. I like the way my wife dresses provocatively, so I'm not going to preach that she should dress modestly. I don't want to. I don't want to talk. I don't really know how to pray, so I'm not going to preach how to pray. Or I'm going to preach how to pray or I'm going to change the definition of it because I want it to be easy. I want you to have an easier way of trying to be saved. And then you start hearing people saying stuff like it'll take all that. And this is where that comes from Trying to assume that either the Bible is partly divine and partly human or mostly human and partly divine.

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We have to all you, me, anybody who are looking to go to heaven, who wants to go to heaven, has to come to the understanding, has to come to the revelation that the Bible is 100% divine. Therefore, it would behoove all of us if we think there's something that contradicts and I can think of three. That guy really trained me well, I can think of three that people just use all the time, because they use it to try to discredit the Bible. But that's because they don't read the Bible. They haven't read it, they haven't studied it.

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This is not something we were speaking at church last week. It's not something you just pick up and read like a magazine. You have to study it and cross-reference it and and read like a magazine. You have to study it and cross reference and it sounds like a lot. But that's why you do a little bit at a time and that's why going to church and podcasts like these are important not necessarily this one, because, uh, but it is what it is. But that's why going to church is important. That's why Bible studies are important, because your word has to be rightly divided and sometimes we have to take that big pizza, put it up in the slices and maybe fold the slices just so that we can take a bite out of it. And that's just really how it is. The Bible is 100% verbally inspired, even the parts that we don't like, even the parts that we wish God had not fulfilled, because we can always use a day off, a week, right. So, that being said, I do appreciate the question. We're going to continue this because we went. This is what actually led into the arguments of who God is, so this was a really wonderful idea, thank you.

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Thank you all for the question. Oh, and I guess I missed it at the beginning. If you do have questions, if you have comments, send them to walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail. Walkwithmebiblestudy at gmailcom. And if you want to have your question addressed directly to you there are some people who do. Most people just prefer anonymous. If you want your question addressed directly to you, put your name in the subject line and then I will just just like here on the podcast, like say, for example, we had Carolyn who did that.

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I was basically talking to Carolyn and everybody kind of overheard. That's the way it kind of went. But thank you all so much for joining. Hey, listen, when you're out and about today, tell somebody that Jesus loves them. That's probably the only positive thing they will hear today. So much things are going on, so much worry, so much fear, so much concern. But let them know that Jesus loves them and if you have a family member going through something, tell them that Jesus can deliver them and mean it. You know people can tell when you're being faithful, but just mean it, alright? God bless each and every one of you. I'll see you on the next one. Goodbye.