clearly under the next head. And not only did Paul so claim, but the Apostle Peter also classes the teaching of Paul with the O. T. teaching as being "Scripture." Peter says in 2 Pet. 3:15, 16, +"Even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, wrote unto you; (16) as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction."+ Here Peter clearly speaks of Paul's epistles as being "Scripture." VIII. THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD The eighth thing that the Bible teaches concerning the extent of the inspiration of its writings is that _because of this inspiration of Prophets and Apostles, the writers of the Bible, the whole Bible as originally given becomes the absolutely inerrant Word of God_. In the O. T. David says of his own writings, in 2 Sam. 23:2, a passage already referred to, +"The Spirit of Jehovah spake by me, and His Word was upon my tongue."+ In Mark 7:13 Our Lord Jesus Himself calls the law of Moses "the Word of God." He says +"making void the Word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered."+ In the verses immediately preceding, He has been drawing a contrast between the teachings of the Mosaic law (not merely the teachings of the Ten Commandments, but other parts of the Mosaic law as well) and the traditions of the Scribes and Pharisees, and has shown how the traditions of the Scribes and Pharisees flatly contradicted the requirements of the law as given through Moses, and in summing up the matter he says in the verse just quoted, that the Scribes and Pharisees made void "_the Word of God_" by their traditions, thus calling the law of Moses "_the Word of God._" When I was in England a high dignitary and scholar in the Church of England in a private correspondence tried to call me down by saying that the Bible nowhere claimed to be "the Word of God," but I replied to him by showing him that not only did the Bible claim it, but that the Lord Jesus Himself said in so many words that the law given through Moses was "_the Word of God_." In 1 Thess. 2:13 the Apostle Paul claims that his own epistles and teachings are "_the Word of God_." He says: +"And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe."+ Here the Apostle Paul claims for his own teaching in the most absolute way that the message that he gave was "_the Word of God_." When we read the words that Jeremiah wrote and Isaiah wrote and Paul wrote and John wrote and James wrote and Jude wrote and the other Bible writers wrote, we are reading what God says. We are not listening to the voice of man, but we are listening to the voice of God. "The Word of God"