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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=[https://archive.org/details/MN41551ucmf_1/page/n55 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]{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</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}}{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</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] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220131723/http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=C&word=CANON |date=December 20, 2007 }}</ref> and therefore are not a part of Holy Scripture.<ref name="Engelder 1934 27">{{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=[https://archive.org/details/MN41551ucmf_1/page/n56 27]|location=Saint Louis, MO|publisher=Concordia Publishing House|year=1934}}</ref> The prophetic and apostolic scriptures are authentic as written by the prophets and apostles. A correct translation of their writings is God's Word because it has the same meaning as the original Hebrew and Greek.<ref name="Engelder 1934 27" /> A mistranslation is not God's word, and no human authority can invest it with divine authority.<ref name="Engelder 1934 27" />
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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