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Jesus is the Word of God. Of that we have no doubt. What some do doubt is that Scripture is God’s Word. Some even deny it. Why do some think that Jesus being the Word of God and Scripture being the Word of God are mutually exclusive propositions? Do you wish for the short...
One of the arguments against inerrancy is based upon the idea that, since Jesus is the Word, Scripture cannot be the Word of God. In the next week or so I plan to post regarding this. My argument is simple: Jesus the Word of God and Scripture as the Word of God are not...
Inerrancy: Why Is It Important? Why is it important that we affirm and embrace the doctrine of the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture? This is a very important issue to me as a pastor. It is greatly relevant to my ministry and the people for whom I am responsible. The first thing that...
There is circulating at present a rather serious misunderstanding of the evangelical restriction of inerrancy (or inspiration, infallibility) to the autographic text and of the implications of that restriction. DeKoster claims that there are only two options: either the Bible on our pulpits is the inspired Word of God, or it is the...
Image via Wikipedia If the King James Version ONLY is the Word of God, please tell me which of the following is NOT the Word of God. ““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ” (John 3:16)...
From chapter 16, volume 1 of The Fundamentals: It is sufficient to say that while many more positive confirmations of the seemingly improbable statements of the sacred historians can be adduced, there have been no discoveries which necessarily contravene their statements. The cases already here enumerated relate to such widely separated times and places,...
MT 1:20-23, LK 1:26-33 An angel announces to Joseph and/or Mary that the child (Jesus) will be “great,” the “son of the Most High,” etc., and …. MT 3:13-17, MK 1:9-11 The baptism of Jesus is accompanied by the most extraordinary happenings, yet …. MK 3:21 Jesus’ own relatives (or friends) attempt to constrain...
MT 1:18-21 The Annunciation occurred after Mary had conceived Jesus. LK 1:26-31 It occurred before conception. MT 1:20 The angel spoke to Joseph. LK 1:28 The angel spoke to Mary. Wow! How simplistic can one be? It only takes a cursory reading of the text to see that there are two different events recorded. ...
F.F. Bruce, who is a great scholar of the New Testament says the following in “The New Testament Documents”: Augustine, for example, says that Marks seems to have followed Matthew “as his lackey and abbreviator, so to speak.” But anyone who studies a synopsis of the Gospels where the common material is arranged in...
MT 1:17 There were twenty-eight generations from David to Jesus. LK 3:23-38 There were forty-three. Is this truly an issue of an inconsistency or discrepancy? Could it be that the Biblical writers wrote with a purpose? Could that purpose not necessitate a strict listing of every person in the lineage of Jesus? We have...
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