1. Evidences for Biblical Inspiration
How We Got the Bible

2. Evidences for Biblical Inspiration
Summary of the Claims for Biblical Inspiration
Support for the Claims for Biblical Inspiration

3. Biblical Description of Inspiration
The Significance of 2 Timothy 3:16
The Significance of 1 Corinthians 2:12-13

4. Three Elements in Inspiration
God’s Causality
Prophetic Agency
Divine Authority

5. Characteristics of an Inspired Writing
Verbal, i.e., Guided
Plenary, i.e., Full
Inerrancy, i.e., Accurate
Divine Authority, i.e., Profitable

6. Biblical Claim to Divine Inspiration
Old Testament Claims
New Testament Claims

7. Support for Biblical Claims of Inspiration
The Prima Facie Evidence for Inspiration
Evidence from Biblical Miracles
Evidence from Biblical Prophecy

8. Support for Biblical Claims of Inspiration
Evidence from the Testimony of Jesus Christ
Evidence from the Unity of the Bible
Evidence from the Historicity of the Bible

9. Support for Biblical Claims of Inspiration
Evidence from the Integrity of the Human Authors
Evidence from the Transforming Ability of the Bible
Evidence from the Influence of the Bible

10. Support for Biblical Claims of Inspiration
Evidence from the Apparent Indestructibility of the Bible
The Argument from Alternate Possibility

11. Conclusion The Bible claims to be and proves to be the Word of God.
There are general claims for the Bible as a whole and more specific claims for sections and even individual books.
This is true of both Old and New Testaments.

12. Challenge Some of these arguments alone are indecisive.
But when all of them are taken together they form a very persuasive argument that the Bible is indeed the Word of God.
In fact, no other book in the world has such widespread and unique support for its claim to be the inspired Word of God.