Evangelicals view the Bible as a genuinely human product, influenced by the Holy Spirit ,This divine involvement, they say, allowed the biblical writers to communicate without corrupting God's own message both to the immediate recipients of the writings and to those who would come after. Some Evangelicals have labelled the conservative or traditional view as "verbal, plenary inspiration of the original manuscripts", by which they mean that each word (not just the overarching ideas or concepts) was meaningfully chosen under the superintendence of God.
Evangelicals acknowledge the existence of textual variations between biblical accounts of apparently identical events and speeches. They see these as complementary, not contradictory, and explain them as the differing viewpoints of different authors. For instance, the Gospel of Matthew was intended to communicate the Gospel to Jews, the Gospel of Luke to Green. Some discrepancies are accounted for by changes from the autographa (the original manuscripts) that have been introduced in the copying process, either deliberately or accidentally.
Three basic approaches to inspiration are often described [ by whom? ] when the evangelical approach to scripture is discuss. Verbal dictation theory: The dictation theory claims that God dictated the books of the Bible word by word, suggesting the authors were no more than tools used to communicate God's precisely intended message.
Verbal plenary inspiration: This view gives a greater role to the human writers of the Bible while maintaining a belief that God preserved the integrity of the words of the Bible. The effect of inspiration was to move the authors so as to produce the words God wanted.In this view the human writers' "individual backgrounds, personal traits, and literary styles were authentically theirs, but had been providentially prepared by God for use as his instrument in producing Scripture." However, the theory nuances that "God so mysteriously superintended the process that every word written was also the exact word he wanted to be written—free from all error."
Intuition theory: The authors of the Scriptures were merely wise men, so the Bible is inspired by advanced human insight.
Partial inspiration: the Bible is infallible in matters of faith and practice/morals, yet it could have errors in history or science (e.g. the Big Bang could be true, and the Genesis creation account is more allegorical than historical).
Dynamic inspiration: The thoughts contained in the Bible are inspired, but the words used were left to the individual writers(human language) This suggests the underlying message of the Scriptures are Holy Spirit "voice through the prophets". The
Apology of the Augsburg Confession identifies Holy Scripture with the Word of God and calls the Holy Spirit the author of the Bible.
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