What Does Inspiration Mean?

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. What does it mean that the Bible is inspired?

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What does inspiration actually mean? When we think in our culture that inspiration generally has the idea that someone has a about something, it's not the same as what we see when it speaks of Scripture.

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In 2 Timothy 3 .16 it speaks about all Scripture being breathed out by God.

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This is a compound word in the Greek that is the only time this is used, actually this may be the only time it's used in Greek.

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This is the first of its use and it is the idea that God actually speaks out.

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It is the breath of God. When we think about our breathing, you're hearing my voice that is actually sound waves coming through.

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I'm breathing into a microphone and you're hearing the breath of me and that voice that I have and that's the idea of Scripture.

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That Scripture is the very voice of God. It is Him breathing out,

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Him speaking and therefore when we think about Scripture, it carries with it the authority from God because it is

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God's very word. It is God speaking to man.

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That is the idea of what inspiration means when it comes to the

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Bible. This isn't a sort of song that inspired me, no this is different, this is the very voice of God.