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Originally Posted by zeek
The reception of the breath of God is inspiration by which is meant to be infused with the Spirit.The question remains: How is this so?
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Nice question. I like Proverbs 30:5 which says "Every word of God is pure (i.e. proven, tested, refined). In that sense I think everyone would agree that God's word is inerrant, simply as a logical proposition. God is adequate, and so is His speaking.
How well does our Bible capture God's speaking? There seem to be fuzzy edges in that some Christian groups have canons that differ. Some books are quoted by "God's word", that were not accepted as "God's word" (i.e Book of Enoch). And then there are various translations, etc. As
OBW said, we don't presume perfection/inerrancy in that manner.
To go back to your statement: the perfect breath of God is to some degree reaching me (inspiring) in the Word of His Son. "God, having spoken to us in many ways and many forms in the past, now is speaking to us in His Son". The key phrase is, "to some degree". Peter clearly was not inerrant. He made many mistakes, carefully recorded in the gospels and even in Paul's epistles. Nor should we presume any of the others, less documented, were less error-prone. And so on down the line -- we as readers (myself, anyway) share in the effects of "the fall". I really may be "the least of the saints"!
God was pleased to breathe perfection into me in the Person of His Son, through the Holy Spirit, when by faith I opened my mouth and declared the truth of the words in the Bible that "Jesus is Lord!". The imperfection and errancy in that process are on my end, and not on God's end.