CHRIST’S AUTHENTICATION OF SCRIPTURE Because the Holy Scriptures, although written by men, are more fundamentally God’s Spirit-inspired, imperishable, coherent Word, they are intrinsically authoritative and man’s only infallible rule for faith and life. Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, whom his Father raised from the dead on the third day after death,23 regarded the Scriptures precisely this way and declared them to be such.24 Among other things he said about the Old Testament, he declared: