makes the Scriptures understood (by a reader) as “illumination” rather than inspiration. Two corollaries follow from accepting the Bible’s own account of its inspiration: Inspiration Is Plenary. First, the inspiration of the Scriptures can be said to be plenary, a word meaning “full; entire; complete.” That is, Scripture is God-breathed in all its parts. To say that inspiration is plenary is to reject an illumination theory in which inspiration is held to be only