COURSE LEARNING PACKETS Document Code FM-STL-014

Saint Louis University Revision No. 01

School of Teacher Education and Liberal Arts Effectivity June 07, 2021
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INSPIRED WORD
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for
refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one
who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good
work (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

St. Paul’s letter to Timothy contains an exhortation to hold firm to the biblical word
of God precisely because it comes from God, even though written by human authors. It
is God who moved the human authors to commit to writing what God wanted them to
write. Indeed, from the dawn of the Christian religion, the followers of Christ have
considered the Bible a special communication of God, in which the prophets of the Old
Testament and Jesus of Nazareth in the New, revealed to the chosen people the secrets
of divine wisdom and the means of salvation for mankind. The Christian Scriptures are not
just an important piece of religious writing; they also provide basic guidelines of moral
conduct.