What Authority does the Bible have?

          The word authority means power or rule. This power has the ability to govern and instruct. When thinking about the authority of the Bible. We must think about the authority of God. It was God who wrote the Bible (II Tim 3:16). Jesus said that all power and authority was given to him in heaven and in earth (Matt 28:19). Now does all mean all! All authority means that every thing that Jesus has said or done is authoritative. The things that Jesus said we must teach and the things that Jesus has done we must practice (Acts 1:1). Also Jesus said that every word that he has spoken will be the words that we are judged by in the last day (John 12:48). Paul says that everything that we have done we will be judged by (II Cor 5:10).  And Solomon said that all our works will be brought to the judgment (Ecc 12:14).  So how much authority does the Bible have? It has enough authority to judge us at the second coming of Christ. Therefore we should all strive to do the things that are written within the inspired pages of the word of God, for it is the only book that can judge our lives in the end. (Rev 20:12) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

                                                                   -Ruben Williams-