Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Pearls of Great Price
The bible is more than, a record of outward events. It is the Word of God, and as such, is inspired by Him. The writers of the Bible were not left to themselves in the expression of divine ideas entering their mmds by in?ux, but, instead, the very words of the letter of Scripture were dictated to them by the Lord. This divine dictation and thence inspiration did not involve, in every in stance, literal accuracy. St. Paul tells us that all Scripture given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, reproof, and instruction that the man of God may be thoroughly furnished unto every good word and work. Our English word inspiration is derived from a Latin word meaning, to breathe into. The whole body of the literal sense of the Bible was breathed into by the Lord, and thus inspired.
This thought of the Scriptures lifts them to a higher plane than that which they occupy in the thought of the older theologies, for it involves the concept of a spiritual sense in the Bible, which in itself constitutes an organic spiritual Soul, which' dwells in everv part of the literal sense as in its own body.
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