The spine — essential · Scripture

Can I trust the Bible?

Scripture is God's word, authoritative in all it teaches — the final authority in matters of faith and practice. The manuscripts are the best-attested texts of antiquity, and the church receives them with confidence.

Where Scripture takes this up

1 Corinthians 2:10-13
¹⁰But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.