Is the Bible Corrupted? Part 5- Inspiration without Preservation is Damnation!

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Welcome to This Week in the Word!

This is where I am sharing the work God is using to grow me. How I am preparing for his calling on my life, and being a witness to his glory. I am not a graduate of seminary, a theologian, or godly scholar. I am just a born again BIBLE believing disciple of Jesus.

My mission is to encourage people to seek God through reading his word.

This weeks study: Inspiration without Preservation is Damnation

This book is a miracle:
The bible is a collection of the words God chose to give us. They are not all his words, but a specific selection of words he gave to us because they are the specific words he wanted us to have. Just as this book doesn’t contain all the knowledge of God, rather it contains the knowledge God wanted to impart to us.
It is complete: [Rev 22:18-19]
It needs zero help: [2Tim 2:15-16]
Just as Jesus is a miracle, so is this word: [1 Tim 3:16- says God was manifest in the flesh, 2 Tim 3:16 says God was manifest in a book, and John 1:14 says Jesus is the word of God, and 1 John 5:7]. Jesus is God yet man, these words are God’s, yet written by man.
It goes against man’s logic: [1Cor 3:19]
Through God all things are possible. [Mark 10:27]
Without faith it is impossible to please God. [Heb 11:6]
What is Faith? [Heb 11:1] Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
By grace we are saved through faith

“Inspiration without preservation is damnation”
This week we look to the Bible to see how the Bible tells us it was written and how it has withstood the attacks of the enemies for over 6000 years. This is called “Inspiration” (how it was written), and “Preservation” (how it has been protected).

1Pet 1:23-25: it lives through God’s inspiration (God breaths the breath of life), and abides through God’s preservation

Preservation:
God’s promise to preserve his word: Ps 12:6-7
Preservation through writing:
Rev 20:12-
Exe 32:33-
Preservation through Canonization:
Lies of the enemy: the Bible was cannoned by the Catholic Church at the council of Trent in the 3rd century
The OT was cannoned before the birth of Jesus. We know this because the Bible shows us.
Jesus spoke to the canon of the OT from Able to Zacharias Matthew 23:35
Jesus confirmed the content of the OT, and that is was written about him: Luke 24:44
Jesus also said his blood was shed for the NT, which [Matt 26:28, Heb 9:15]The NT was cannoned in the 1st century as the apostles were circulating it.
1 Timothy 5:18- Scripture quotes Deut 25:, Luke 10:7 (Paul knows the gospel of Luke as scripture)
2 Peter 3:16 refers to Paul's epistles as scripture, yet this didn’t mean all Paul’s writings.
The organization of the order is a miracle in itself. Gods book to us goes in order of his timeline, not man’s timeline. (In order of dispensation, not as they were penned)
Preservation through Propagation: Isaiah 55:10-11, 1 Timothy 2:1-6
Preservation through Translation: Romans 16:25-26

Lies of the enemy:
Again, understand our enemy, knowing he is a lier and does so to make confusion. He uses the logic of man to make disbelief in man, but with God all things are possible.
“Only the originals are inspired”
Jesus read the scriptures in a small town, and called it scripture
2 Tim says Timothy know the scripture from his youth, but he didn’t have the originals
Jeremiah 36
If its only in the originals then its not preserved because all the original have
“Oldest are best”
2 Corinthians 2:17 says there were corrupt words of God in Paul time. If one of those had served to today it would be by far the oldest manuscripts know to man, but they would still be corrupt
“Details are lost in translation”, “translations can’t be inspired”
Acts 22-1, Romans 16:22, Romans 9:17
“All versions of the Bible are basically the same”
If you know your enemy you can understand this. Satan has always attacked God’s truth. Satan’s first act in the Bible was to change the word of God (”yea hath God said”)
If you are in any other religion there are no arguments over your “bible” but in christianity there are over 450 versions in English alone.
The bible says to judge a tree by its fruit. Look at how apostate the church is today, and this condition started with man taking liberty to “correct” the word of God.

This book is alive because its the word of a living God. We don’t have to know how God made it all work and understand it, we just need to believe God’s promise.

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