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People who believe in inerrancy think that the Bible does not merely contain the Word of God, but every word of it is, because of verbal inspiration, the direct, immediate word of God.<ref>
{{bibleverse|2|Timothy|3:16|50}}, {{bibleverse|1|Corinthians|2:13|50}}, {{bibleverse|1|Thessalonians|2:13|50}}, {{Bibleref2|Romans|3:2|50}}, {{bibleverse|2|Peter|1:21|50}}, {{bibleverse|2|Samuel|23:2|50}}, {{Bibleref2|Hebrews|1:1|50}}, {{Bibleref2|John|10:35|50}}, {{Bibleref2-nb ||John|16:13|50}}, {{Bibleref2-nb||John|17:17|50}}, {{cite book|last=Engelder|first=Theodore E.W.|url=https://archive.org/details/MN41551ucmf_1|title=Popular Symbolics: The Doctrines of the Churches of Christendom and of Other Religious Bodies Examined in the Light of Scripture|page=26|location=Saint Louis, MO|publisher=Concordia Publishing House|year=1934}}</ref> The Lutheran [[Apology of the Augsburg Confession]] identifies Holy Scripture with the Word of God<ref>"God's Word, or Holy Scripture" from the [http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_2_originalsin.php Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Article II, of Original Sin]</ref> and calls the Holy Spirit the author of the Bible.<ref>"the Scripture of the Holy Ghost". [http://www.bookofconcord.org/defense_greeting.php Apology to the Augsburg Confession, Preface, 9]</ref> Because of this, Lutherans confess in the [[Formula of Concord]], "we receive and embrace with our whole heart the [[Hebrew Scriptures|prophetic]] and [[apostolic Scriptures]] of the Old and New Testaments as the pure, clear fountain of Israel".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookofconcord.org/sd-ruleandnorm.php|title=The Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord|publisher=}}</ref> Lutherans (and other Protestants) believe apocryphal books are neither inspired nor written by prophets, and that they contain errors and were never included in the "Palestinian Canon" that Jesus and the Apostles are said to have used,<ref>See [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=C&word=CANON. BIBLE Bible, Canon in the Christian Cyclopedia] {{wayback|url=http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=C&word=CANON
However, the 19th century Anglican biblical scholar [[Samuel Rolles Driver|S. R. Driver]] held a contrary view, saying that, "as inspiration does not suppress the individuality of the biblical writers, so it does not altogether neutralise their human infirmities or confer upon them immunity from error".<ref>Driver, S.R., Church Congress speech, cited in F.W. Farrar, ''The Bible: Its Meaning and Supremacy'', Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897.</ref> Similarly, J.K. Mozley, an early 20th-century Anglican theologian has argued:
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