The Bible

The teaching of the written scriptures is the Word which God spoke and speaks to his church, and is finally authoritative for faith and life. To learn the mind of God, one must consult his written Word. What scripture says, God says. The Bible is inspired in the sense of being word-for-word God-given. It is an explanation of divine revelation which is both complete (sufficient) and comprehensible (perspicuous); that is to say, it contains all that the church needs to know in this world for its guidance in the way of salvation and service, and it contains the principles for its own interpretation within itself. ---JI Packer (Fundamentalism and the Word of God, p. 47).