biblical inspiration
Holy text's source
Biblical inspiration is the doctrine that sacred scripture was composed under divine influence, with God guiding human authors to record religious truth.
Views range from strict inerrancy—every word dictated by God—to looser theories where God inspired the ideas while authors chose their own words.
The debate over biblical inspiration shapes how believers interpret scripture.
- Word of GodSacred religious text
- GenesisFirst biblical book
- Holy SpiritThird divine person
- inerrancyTotal freedom from mistakes
- divine revelationDeity communicates to humanity
hermeneutics · Psalms · infallibility · exegesis · Reformation · Septuagint · canonization · Isaiah · still small voice · Gospels · oral tradition · typology · allegory · illumination · covenant · contextualism · literalism · Dead Sea Scrolls
biblical inspirationnaturalism
Worldview excluding the supernatural
rationalism · empiricism · human reason · skepticism · biblical criticism
biblical inspirationfiction
Imagined narrative work
mythology · folklore · pseudepigrapha · apocrypha · forgery
biblical inspirationcultural conditioning
Learned patterns from society
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