21st Annual Winter Conference

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Thy Word is Truth John 1717 Saturday Session 1
Revelation, Inspiration, Inerrancy
21st Annual Winter Conference Galilean Bible Camp
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• Saturday a.m. Revelation, Inspiration, Inerrancy
• Greek apokalupsis an
• uncovering or unveiling what
• has been hidden and
• unknown.
• Revelation is the divine
• act of communication to man
• what otherwise man would not know.

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REVELATION
The Minds of The Human Authors of Scripture
A thought in the mind of God
Revelation
1 Corinthians 29-13
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Revelation Two Major Classifications

God
General Revelation
Special Revelation

• Creation of Universe
• (Psalm 19 Romans 119,20)
• Providence of History
• (Acts 1417)
• Consciousness of God
• (Genesis 126)

• Prophets (Old Testament)
• Son, Apostles (New Testament)

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INSPIRATION Definition Biblical inspiration
may be defined as Gods superintending human
authors so that, using their own individual
personalities, they composed and recorded without
error His revelation to man in the words of the
original autographs. (Charles C. Ryrie)

The Original Hebrew Greek Manuscripts
The Mind Of the Human Author
Inspiration
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The Seven Wonders of the Word

• Prophecy
• Unity
• Preservation
• Influence
• Science
• History
• Archaeology

The Word Of God
For more on numbers 5, 6 7 See book The
Bible Myth or Divine Truth
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INERRANCY Definition Inerrancy is a term
used to explain that the Bible is completely true
and contains no errors in the original
autographs.
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INERRANCY
I N E R R A N C Y
Revelation
Inspiration
A Thought in the mind of God
A Thought in the mind of the Author
The Original Hebrew Greek Manuscripts
REVELATION INSPIRATION INERRANCY
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Why is inerrancy so important? If we cannot
trust the truthfulness of scripture in historical
and scientific matters, which are subject to
testing, how can we trust the truthfulness of
scripture in spiritual matters which are beyond
testing?
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• Questions
• Q Does anyone possess a perfect translation
  today?
• A No! Inspiration inerrancy apply only to the
  originals.

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Questions
Q Why must there be flawless originals if our
copies are not? A Because God produced the
originals and He cannot err.
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Questions
Q Why didnt God preserve the copies from all
error? A He did preserve it from significant
error, but just like God allows other things we
dont understand, we must accept that He had a
good reason.
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Inerrancy Defended
Questions
Q How accurate are our copies of the original
Hebrew and Greek texts? A About 99 accurate.
We have 100 of the truth we need. The main
issues are disagreements about which words were
the original ones. We dont lack any of the
original we just have some disputed extra.
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Questions
Note Actually, we have thousands of existing
manuscripts each containing a variety of
copying errors. But the fact that we have so many
copies actually enables us to decide very closely
what the original was.
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Questions
Example If you would receive 3 e-mails, each
containing an error. OU HAVE WON 1,000. YU
HAVE WON 1,000. YO HAVE WON 1,000. The truth
is clear, even if the e-mails disagree on their
errors.
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AD 1947
Scroll of Isaiah
A Scroll of Isaiah that is part of the Dead Sea
Scrolls is the oldest complete manuscript of any
book of the Bible. This copy was made around 100
BC.
Scroll of Isaiah
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Two principles must guide our thinking about
inerrancy

• Apparent contradictions are not necessarily
• real contradictions.
• B. Inerrancy allows for other forms of truth in
  human
• language besides technically literal truth.