2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture
is inspired by God and is useful
for
teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for
training
in righteousness,
A primary criterion for the
canonicity of a book of the Bible
was the belief that it was a work inspired by God. By definition,
to inspire literally means to
breathe into, upon, or in. Inspiration
means any and all promptings of
God's grace in and on the
human psyche and specifically of
the divine promptings at
the origin of the books of the
Bible. The divine inspiration
of Sacred Scripture denotes the special influence of God
upon the human writers of the Bible, an influence of such
a nature that God is said to be
the author of the biblical books.