Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy

Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Authority of Scripture What does Inerrancy not mean?

Authority of Scripture That the Bible tells us everything about everything.

Authority of Scripture 2 Peter 1:3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness….

Authority of Scripture That the Bible refrains from using “language of appearance”, etc.

Joshua 10:12-13 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon in the valley of Aijalon." So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of their enemies…. And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.

Authority of Scripture That the Bible refrains from using loose quotations.

Authority of Scripture That the Bible refrains from using structural organization rather than chronological arrangement.

Authority of Scripture Modern Challenges to Inerrancy

Authority of Scripture Is the Bible authoritative only for matters of religious or ethical importance?

Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

Authority of Scripture Lesson 4 Inerrancy Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.

Authority of Scripture Since only the original manuscripts are inerrant, does that mean that our modern Bibles aren’t?

Author DateEarlies t Copy Time Span # of Copies Plato < 347 BC 900 AD1200 years 7 Caesar < 44 BC 900 AD1000 years 10 Homer 900 BC 400 BC500 years 643 NT < 100 AD 2 nd Century AD < 100 years 5600

Daniel Wallace has detailed a new find of several fragments of copies of New Testament documents, including some from Luke and Mark which are earlier than any others found to date.

Authority of Scripture Did the biblical authors “accommodate” their language to the mistaken understandings of their hearers?

Lesson 4 Inerrancy Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Lesson 4 Inerrancy Titus 1:2 … God, who cannot lie….

Authority of Scripture The Result of Denying Inerrancy

Authority of Scripture A denial of the reliability of Scripture (and of God himself)

Isaiah 55:11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

Hebrews 6:18 …it is impossible for God to lie….

Authority of Scripture A denial of the authority of Scripture

Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it….

Revelation 22:19 …and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

Authority of Scripture A denial of the doctrines of the Faith