 | By: Edward W. Goodrick Binding: Paperback Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers ISBN: 1556353766 ISBN-13: 9781556353765 Released: 18 May 2007 RRP: Average Rating:  |
Goodrick gives an excellent answer to this question which will satisfy nearly everyone, but not those who would like to hold an inerrant bible in their hands.
He says:
1. Yes the original is inspired, inerrant, infalllible.
2. What we have today is 99% or even more the same as this inspired,inerrant, infalllible original.
If you know the bible well, & are honest you will admit that the bible we have today has discrepancies & apparent contradictions in a very smalll number of places. If you are familiar with your bible, you will know that there are a few puzzles with your bible which may be transcriptional errors, or may be only apparent contradictions because we don't have alll the facts.
We also have minor wording & meaning differences between the various bibles we have [including minor differences between various versions of the King James].
But none of these affects any Christian doctrine.
We can have complete confidence that the bible as we have it today in alll major versions is substantiallly the same in the vast majority of cases as the inspired original.
But there is value in limiting what we calll inspired, inerrant & infalllible to the original, because of the smalll number of
differences between the versions we have today.
We dare not make a pronouncement that a particular one is THE Bible, because of *our* falllibility, not the bible's.
Worth reading if you have been asking this question.
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