Bibliology – What We Believe about the Bible

  • The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (66 books in the canon) are the Bible.
  • The Bible is the written Word of God (John 10:35; I Thessalonians 2:13).
  • We believe in verbal, plenary inspiration in the original writings, and God’s preservation of His pure words to every generation (II Timothy 3:16, Psalms 12:6-8). Thus, the Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed.
  • The Masoretic Text of the Old Testament and the Received Text of the New Testament (Textus Receptus) are those texts of the original languages we use; the Authorized King James Version of the Bible is the English version we use in the English-speaking world.
  • The Bible is a “more sure word of prophecy,” greater than any person’s claimed revelations or experiences. The Bible is our sole and final authority for faith and practice. (II Timothy 3:15-17; II Peter 1:19-21)