1. Trust the Source
2 Timothy 3:14-17

2. The Word of God is Inspired
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The Word of God is Inspired
theopneustos = God-breathed
2 Peter 1:21
...no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

3. The Word of God is Inspired
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The Word of God is Inspired
theopneustos = God-breathed
Acts 4:25
“...[the Lord] by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said...”

4. The Word of God is Inspired
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The Word of God is Inspired
Verbal = the very words
Matthew 5:18
“For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”

5. The Word of God is Inspired
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The Word of God is Inspired
Plenary = the entire Word
Psalm 119:160
The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.

6. The Word of God is Inspired
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The Word of God is Inspired
1 Thessalonians 2:13
...when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God, which also performs its work in you who believe.

7. The Word of God is Inerrant
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The Word of God is Inerrant
Paul D. Feinberg
Inerrancy means that when all the facts are known, the Scriptures in their original autographs and properly interpreted will be shown to be wholly true in everything that they affirm,

8. The Word of God is Inerrant
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The Word of God is Inerrant
Paul D. Feinberg
whether that has to do with doctrine or morality or with the social, physical, or life sciences.

9. The Word of God is Inerrant
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The Word of God is Inerrant
We believe that God superintended the authors of the Scriptures so that, using their own individual literary styles, they composed and recorded without error God’s revelation to man in the words of the original manuscripts.

10. The Word of God is Inerrant
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The Word of God is Inerrant
John Wesley
If there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth.

11. The Word of God is Inerrant
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The Word of God is Inerrant
The Word is painfully honest
Lewis Sperry Chafer
The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

12. The Word of God is Inerrant
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The Word of God is Inerrant
The Word is painfully honest
The Word is historically trustworthy
The Word is prophetically accurate

13. The Word of God is Reliable
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The Word of God is Reliable
OT was copied meticulously
NT was copied extensively

15. How did Copyist errors occur?
Greek Uncial Script

16. How did Copyist errors occur?
Greek Uncial Script
ISITHERE
I SIT HERE!
IS IT HERE?

17. How did Copyist errors occur?
Visual Errors
Mark 14:65
Some began to spit at Him...and to beat Him... And the officers received Him [elabon], or threw at Him [eballon] with slaps in the face.

18. How did Copyist errors occur?
Auditory Errors
their/there
great/grate
Romans 5:1 ...having been justified by faith, we have peace [echomen], or let us have peace [echomen] with God...

19. How did Copyist errors occur?
Hebrew Text
ד ר י

20. How did Copyist errors occur?
Hebrew Text
Daniel 9:24
שָׁבֻעִ֨ים שִׁבְעִ֜ים נֶחְתַּ֥ךְ עַֽל־עַמְּךָ֣׀ וְעַל־עִ֣יר

21. How did Copyist errors occur?
Hebrew Text
TRST S FN
TRUST IS FUN
TRISTIE IS FUN
TRISTIE IS SO FINE

22. Trust the Source Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

23. Abraham Lincoln
I believe the Bible is the best gift that God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

25. Trust the Source
2 Timothy 3:14-17