The Scriptures
Their inspiration and authority
The Bible in its entirety is the Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, infallible and eternal [1]. It is all that is necessary for our salvation and service to God [2]; thus, men are not allowed to add anything to it, to remove anything from it and to change anything to it, and the same for the angels [3].
It follows from this that no human tradition, experience or new revelation can be opposed to it [4], but on the contrary everything must be examined, settled or reformed according to Scripture [5].
We acknowledge that all the books of the Bible without any distinction, except the Apocrypha [6], are canonical and are the most certain rule for our faith, not only by mutual agreement and consent from the Church of Jesus Christ, but also through internal witness and persuasion (confirmation?) from the Holy Spirit. This allows us to distinguish them from the other ecclesiastical books in which we can not find any article of faith [7]. Accepting the Scriptures as our only criterion of the truth, we believe that the inspiration of the Scriptures is valid for both the Old [8] and the New Testament [9].