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Originally Posted by Igzy
The way I look at it is simple. I believe in Jesus. The most reliable record of Jesus shows him with the unmistakable attitude that the entire OT was the Word of God. He quoted it profusely and plainly stated that it was authoritative. His ministry and Paul's were a period of major changes for God's arrangement with mankind. Don't you think if they had problems with parts of the OT they would have let us know during that time? But they didn't.
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This is exactly what millions of believers have concluded throughout the church age. The Reformers really never addressed this issue since their chief battle with Rome was over the elevation of
traditions to the status of scripture. It was not until rationalism arose, that seeds of doubt were spread abroad that the Bible was nothing more than a human endeavor, fraught with error.
I also prefer to take the pattern of Jesus and the original apostles. They considered the whole law, the history, the songs, and the prophets to be God's word. Never once did Jesus or the apostles point out any errors in the scripture, and they had plenty of opportunity. Jesus and the apostles even took this one step further to the anger of the Jewish religionistas of the day -- they often quoted from the Greek Septuagint rather than the original Hebrew. The Lord Jesus and the apostles took the double step of unequivocally endorsing both the scriptures and the translation of the scriptures. Thus God Himself told us once and for all that His word is not corrupted by minuscule variations of words.