GCBA - Beliefs Grace Church of the Bay Area Home Leadership & Staff Ministries Beliefs Resources Give Sign Up Contact Our Beliefs The Holy Scriptures We teach that the Bible is God’s written revelation to man, and thus the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, constitute the Word of God. That is, we teach the plenary verbal inspiration of Scripture, that every word is equally breathed out by God in all its parts ( 1 Corinthians 2:7–14 ; 2 Timothy 3:16 ; 2 Peter 1:20–21 ). We teach that the Word of God is an objective, propo