Statement of Faith INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible as originally given, the essential and infallible record of God’s self-disclosure to mankind. Divine inspiration occurred as the Holy Spirit superintended the human authors in their different styles of writing so that divine revelation would be given to humanity as God-breathed Scripture, the very words of God written without error in whole or in part. The Bible does not simply contain the Word of God, but is, in reality, the whole counsel of God, the trustworthy and sufficient standard by which all truth claims must be tested, the sole authoritative rule for faith and practice. We believe, therefore, that the Scriptures are to be studied, proclaimed,