[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by OBW

There is no problem with the idea that scripture says precisely what it sets out to say and that it is the truth. The problem is what I think it is saying and what I do with it.

Bible — inerrant

Reader — very errant

The good news is that God has spoken to sinful, errant man.
The bad news is that God has spoken to sinful, errant man.

Those who question the accuracy and inerrant nature of the Bible are barking up the wrong tree. The accuracy and inerrant nature were verified and confirmed long, long ago by many learned and wise men, some who were within a generation or two of the original authors. There is very little doubt that these men had extremely accurate and complete copies of the original writings. It was with these accurate and complete copies that many of the early church "fathers" produced some of the earliest polemics and creeds.

Over the centuries have sinful, errant men taken the pure and inerrant teaching and message of the Word of God and corrupted it, twisting it for their own evil and selfish purposes? Sure. Have false teachers taken the pure and inerrant teaching and message of the Word of God, adding to it when they wished, taking away from it when they wished, all to bring more sinful, errant men under their power and spell, sometimes tickling their ears, and other times beating them over the head with it? Absolutely.

God has chosen to speak to sinful, errant man. He spoke to man before he fell and became sinful and errant, and he spoke to man after he fell and became sinful and errant. He spoke to people, and to his chosen people, in various ways. He even allowed a Donkey to speak one time. "but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son" (Heb 1:2) It is very likely that when the writer of Hebrews penned this the Lord Jesus was already resurrected and not physically ministering on the earth. So "has spoken to us" meant something that was in writing, written down and passed down to all the Christians. This was the Gospel, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles and Revelation - The New Testament. This is how the Son speaks to us in these days. We can ignore it if we so choose, but we do so at great peril I believe. We can also choose to deny that the Bible is actually the Word of God, and we do this at an even greater peril.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? Romans 10:14 If we deny the Bible is the Word of God we leave God with no way to speak to us in these last days. The next time that God comes out of the clouds with a thundering voice to speak to man it will be too late for many. The Son of Man will be coming in power and glory with his angels. Then many will be weeping and will remember what God has spoken to man for centuries and millennia in His Word - The Holy Bible.