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May 7, 2017 Dr. Phillip A. Howard Series: Foundational Truths for Life Valley Bible Church 1 

 What is the Bible? Part II 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 

I. The Bible is Inspired by God 

All the words of every part of scripture are breathed out 

by God. Consequently what is breathed out has the 

quality of being a divine product thus free from error. 

2 Timothy 3:16 – 17 

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for 

teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in 

righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be 

complete, equipped for every good work.” ESV 

“All scripture is theopneustos, literally, God breathed. This makes it plain that what we call inspiration is not the man but the book; not the writer, but his writings; not the speaker, but his words. The purpose of God in inspiration was not to give us a number of infallible men, but to give us an infallible book that would never pass away. Between this position and infidelity there is no neutral ground.” 

Robert G. Lee, “The Word of God Not Broken and Not Bound” May 7, 2017 Dr. Phillip A. Howard Series: Foundational Truths for Life Valley Bible Church 2 May 7, 2017 Dr. Phillip A. Howard Series: Foundational Truths for Life Valley Bible Church 3 

II. Characteristics of a Cult 

Anthony Hoekema, in “Four Major Cults”, gives 

five characteristics of a cult: 

1. An extra-scriptural source of authority. 

2. The denial of justification by grace alone. 

3. The devaluation of Christ 

4. The group as the exclusive community of the 

saved. 

5. The group’s central role in eschatology (last 

day events). 

 

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