[0:00] Chapter 1. Snow pants. I have a unique sound to them.
[0:16] ! 2 Peter. 2 Peter. 2 Peter. I've read Psalms the last two weeks, so I'm taking it somewhere else because we're finishing this one up.
[0:29] So I'm taking something toward the end of this. 2 Peter. We've been talking about inerrancy and infallibility.
[0:43] Oh yeah, Danny, you get to run the thing today, don't you? Okay. Inerrancy and infallibility. What's inerrancy? Okay. No errors, no wanderings.
[0:56] It doesn't go from the truth. So when we say the Bible is inerrant, it gives us the truth in every situation. Everything it talks about, it is correct.
[1:07] What's infallibility? Kind of goes along with that, but huh? Never failing. Okay. Hmm?
[1:20] Undestructible. Undestructible? Okay. All right, I'll go with that. Dependible. Say that again. Dependible.
[1:31] Dependible, okay. Dependible. Biblically, what it meant was, remember, was the fact that the writers who wrote the book could not make a mistake.
[1:45] When they wrote these things, what they wrote was infallible. There were no mistakes in it. Why is that? Why is that? God inspired. God inspired.
[2:00] God said it. That settles it. Okay. And here in 2 Peter. That's why look at chapter 1. Look at the end of the last two verses of chapter 1.
[2:11] Knowing this, knowing this verse, that no prophecy of scripture or any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of men. The holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
[2:25] No mistakes because they were under the leadership of the Holy Spirit. And so, no mistakes. So we've been talking about inerrancy and infallibility.
[2:37] But we said there's a group now today who says, well, the Bible is inerrant, but there are mistakes in the Bible. And they say that because we said, first of all, because of the language that's used.
[2:53] You know, they're not precise enough sometimes. The Bible's not precise enough. You know, it should be more precise, more detailed. And we talked about why that's not really a good argument.
[3:03] And then we talked about the fact that because of the content. And they were talking about the fact that, you know, well, you go through and you check. And there's a whole lot of myths by different cultures and things that have explained the creation and explained different things.
[3:22] And so, therefore, you know, the Bible incorporated some of those myths into itself. And so, they teach things that may not be completely true, but God used that to accomplish his will and his desire.
[3:34] And we were talking about, okay, that's not quite how it works. And we were giving answers. What are we up to there?
[3:45] Okay. So, the arguments were language and content. Dana, can you go to the next? The answers for that qualified. And remember the difference between unqualified and qualified inerrancy was this.
[3:59] Unqualified says the Bible is true in everything it has. Inerrant, infallible, completely 100% reliable. The qualified says, well, you've got a little problem here and this isn't quite right here.
[4:10] But God accomplishes what he wants to accomplish with it. And so, the arguments are the answers to those unqualified people. Let's have a word of prayer, and we'll talk about that.
[4:24] Dear Heavenly Father, we just thank you for allowing us to be here again today, Lord, and for being able to share from your word, Lord, what it says about itself. And, Lord, we thank you that you have given us an inerrant, infallible word that we can take and we can read and we can know that we can trust it, that it's true in all aspects.
[4:45] So, Lord, just thank you for this book that we have in front of us, Lord. Just pray that you would help us to take it and to use it and to see you working through it as the one who wrote it.
[5:01] It is in the inspired word of God. So, Lord, thank you for all that you've given to us in this book. In Jesus' name, amen. So, the answers to those questions about, you know, first of all, we incorporated missing things.
[5:18] Fred? You just mentioned a word in it, though. For the sake of argument, how about killing and murder? What about it? There are two different subjects, but there's only one thing.
[5:29] It says, thou shalt not kill because of our determination. The original way of good is murder. Okay. But isn't murder killing? What?
[5:40] Isn't murder killing? So. Not necessarily. Murder is you go up and kill somebody for no reason at all.
[5:51] Killing what could be is adverse to being in a war or being accidentally run it over somebody. But doesn't the Bible address that? I have no idea.
[6:01] That's what I have. You said for the sake of argument. Okay. So. Yeah, it does address it in Leviticus. The Ten Commandments are kind of like amendments and constitution.
[6:15] They're broad. Mm-hmm. And then we have laws that further go down from there. He defines them. The Leviticus defines different situations when it's.
[6:26] Yeah. When it's okay. Yeah. Because God said, you know, don't kill. But then he qualifies that because he actually told people to go to war. He told people to go and do these things.
[6:38] So he's qualified, you know, what he said. He's given definitions, parameters to it. So, yeah. It's don't kill.
[6:50] But under these circumstances, it's okay. So. I don't know. Margaret? But murder, couldn't that also be like taking hostages and destroying their minds so badly that they're never the same?
[7:08] Or tormenting people. Yeah. To the point that. Yeah. They no longer know what's real and what's not. I don't know. I don't know.
[7:19] Okay. I don't. That one I don't know. But the killing one he does, like Dana said in Leviticus, he says this is okay, this is okay. To do this thing. Well, it was more like murdering their spirit.
[7:32] Yeah. Rather than their body. Yeah. So, yeah. Maybe. I don't know. I haven't thought about it that way. So. Hmm. Interesting. Well, if you think about the fact that there's life and death alone in the time.
[7:47] Yep. The things you say. The things you say. That's true. He does say that. You're right. Yep. Good point. So. Anyway. Back to the myths and things. The myth thing.
[7:59] Second Peter. You're there. Chapter one. Look at verse 16. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables. When we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[8:12] But were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Peter says we don't use fables. We don't use myths. We don't know. Those are not part of God's word and what God has given to us. He says the things we have are eyewitness accounts.
[8:25] And again. I mentioned this last week in passing. But I'll mention again. When we look at the creation and the things written in the Pentateuch. Those first five books that were written by Moses. And. You know.
[8:35] People say. Well this didn't happen. Or this place didn't exist. Or this didn't happen. There were eyewitnesses. You say. Well who is the eyewitness to creation?
[8:47] Go back to verse 21 again. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of men. But men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Who is the Holy Ghost?
[8:58] God. God was there. God saw it. God gave these words to men. So therefore. Peter says. No. We're not using fables and myths and things.
[9:09] We're using eyewitness accounts. Of things that happened. Because God is giving it to us. And God saw it all. God. In 2nd Timothy.
[9:21] We mentioned last week. 2nd Timothy chapter 4. Beginning at verse 1. He says. I charge thee therefore before God. And the Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall judge the quick and the dead.
[9:33] At his appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word. Be instant. In season. Out of season. Reprove. Rebuke. Exhort. With all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come.
[9:45] When they shall not endure sound doctrine. But after their own lusts. Shall they heap to themselves teachers. Having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth.
[9:56] And shall be turned unto fables. He says. They're going to start believing things are fables. They're going to start believing those things. And he says. No. No. No. Don't do that. Verse 5 says. But watch thou in all things.
[10:07] Endure afflictions. Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of thy ministry. He says. Don't go to the fables. And don't start making up things. He says.
[10:18] Go with what the word of God says. Sure. What do you mean? Quicken. Made alive. Yeah.
[10:30] We were dead in trespasses and sin. He's made us alive. Yep. Quicken. Yep. While you're there.
[10:41] If you went there. 1 Timothy. Go to 1 Timothy. Chapter 1. I mean. God knew what people were going to say.
[10:51] And what people were going to do. And how they were going to try to. Change things. So. 1 Timothy. Chapter 1. Look at verse 4. Neither give heed to fables.
[11:02] And endless genealogies. Which minister questions. Rather than godly edifying. Which is in faith. So do. He says. They're going to come back to fables.
[11:13] They're going to try to. Say this is fable. He says. When you do that. All you're doing. Is coming up with more questions. You know. People will say. Oh. I've got a question about this. And this. And this.
[11:23] And so. Well. Well. You know. This fable. You know. It said this. And this. And this. That's where the Bible came from. And that's where they got this. And da da da. Trying to explain things. All they do. Is bring up more questions.
[11:34] When you do that. How do we know what's true. And what's not. Of the Bible. What's part of it. Look at chapter 4. Verse 7. Chapter 4.
[11:45] Verse 7. Of 1 Timothy. But refuse profane. And old wives fables. And exercise thyself. Rather unto godliness. Don't listen to these things.
[11:56] About fables. And myths. And things like that. Follow the word of God. So he says. Number one. The way to answer them. No. God did not use fables.
[12:06] And myths. God used eyewitness accounts. They were given to the men. Who wrote. By the Holy Spirit. Second. Look at the history. Look at the history.
[12:18] That you have. In the Bible. He says. Those historical records. Are true. And they help you. Prove that God. Is who he says he is. And God did what he said. He was going to do.
[12:30] You have had. Multitudes. Of people. Who try to prove. That God's word. Is not true. They'll say. No. There's no record. In history of this. Or no record of that. I'll use an older example.
[12:43] A hundred years ago. Or so. There was a guy. By the name of William Ramsey. He wanted to prove. That the book. Of Luke. Was made up. Didn't believe things.
[12:54] In Luke and stuff. And he said. You know. This place. We've never heard of. And this thing. We've never heard of. And this thing. And he went to prove. See. These things didn't exist. And everything.
[13:04] He tried to prove wrong. He found evidence for it. While he was on his. Archaeological journey. He found signposts. That named cities. He found. He found. Artifacts. And named. Different places.
[13:15] And different things. Everything he did. He wound up becoming a Christian. Because of it. He said. Everything Luke said was true. Everything that was there. I saw.
[13:26] Just this week. They've uncovered. This massive. Rock. And it had. Hieroglyphics. And things on it.
[13:37] From Egypt. And. People have tried to prove. Over the years. Joseph. You know. The story of Joseph. In Egypt. Didn't happen.
[13:49] They found this thing. It doesn't have Joseph's name on it. But it does talk about the Pharaoh. Who would have been Pharaoh. At the time of Joseph. And it talks about the fact that. They had a man. Who was an administrator.
[14:00] In their kingdom. Who. Was very good. At administrative things. And especially. When it came to things. With do with food. And it talks about the fact. That he. Stored food away.
[14:11] And the droughts came. And the famines came. And the man was able to. You know. Put food out there. And so. Everything that we read. About Joseph. In Genesis. This thing. Had listed on it.
[14:23] You know. Like. Who else could it be. Than Joseph. So. You know. The scripture uses history. To show us that. God is at work. God is doing.
[14:33] Even more recent times. You know. There are times when. You read about things. That God did. I don't remember. All the details of this one. But I think it was in World War II. Germany wanted to invade England.
[14:46] And they had. You know. Ships and things. Ready to. To go. And a storm came up. That was so bad. That they could not move. They could not go anywhere. And the fog was so thick.
[14:57] And stuff too. Yeah. So. You know. God works. And God proves himself. Over and over again. As you look at. The historical things. Trying to think.
[15:11] If I'm missing anything here. I want to make sure.
[15:22] I leave anything out. You know. A lot of times. We. We think that. We've got all the answers. And we've got everything. You know. Mankind. Can be very naive.
[15:33] At times. When it comes to God. There's a verse. In Psalm. 78. Talks about Israel. Limiting. The Holy One of Israel.
[15:45] And you know. We. So often. We limit God. And what he can do. We limit him. And how he can take care of things. You know. God's word says.
[15:56] Look. God can do anything. He wants to do. Job. 42. 1 and 2. Then Job answered the Lord.
[16:07] And said. I know that thou. Canst do everything. And that no thought. Can be withholden from thee. God. You know everything. God. You can do anything.
[16:17] You want to. God. You know what everybody's thinking. You know what they're doing. You know how to handle everything. Psalm 115. Verse 3. But our God. Is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever.
[16:28] He hath pleased. God does whatever. He wants to do. He is in control. Proverbs 21. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. As the rivers of water.
[16:40] He turneth it with us. Whoever he will. We just got done studying the book of Esther. Talk about God moving. The heart of the king. You know.
[16:50] That's a good example of it. What God can do. And how he takes care of things. So. Are there any limits on what God can do? Nope. None. You know.
[17:00] He's sovereign over everything. And he's not going to be. Restricted. By what we think. We can. We can be amazed.
[17:11] By what he can do. So then you stop and think. Why would anybody try to redefine inerrancy? Why would they try to redefine who God is?
[17:22] If God is not inerrant. If God cannot do anything that he wants to do. And do it right. Then why do you worship him? Why do you bother? You know.
[17:33] And again. I'm talking about Christians. Who will try to limit. What he can do. Don't do that. So. Third thing. The ambitions. The ambitions.
[17:45] What is it they're trying to accomplish. By doing this. Or what is it Satan's trying to do. By doing this. Go all the way back to Genesis.
[17:56] Chapter 3. Satan's talking to Eve. How did Satan try to get Eve off of track? Questioning God.
[18:10] Hath he really said. Did he really say this? Yes. He really did say this.
[18:21] Yes. He really did have these words to say. And. You go all the way to the end. In Revelation. Satan's going to be loose for a little while.
[18:32] He's going to be able to. You know. Come out and. Try to. Deceive people again. How's he going to do it? Get them to question the word of God. See. That's Satan's biggest thing.
[18:42] That he tries to do. Get us to question. What God's word says. If he can get us to doubt that. Anything else is easy. If we doubt what God's word says.
[18:54] You know. I was thinking about this. The. Whole. Controversy. Over translations. And things like that.
[19:06] You know. You've got. This translation. That translation. I mean. You've got more coming out almost every day. Different translations of the Bible. Why is that? It makes us question.
[19:19] Well. No. Everybody doesn't speak English. But I'm not talking about different languages. I'm talking about different translations. Different languages. I get. Different translations. So. It's like. Right. And it's like.
[19:32] Okay. So which one's right? Who gets to choose? Which one. You know. Are. I was going to say. So they can have more control. And condone the sins. That they're looking at.
[19:43] That's a good one too. They have more control. And they can condone the sins. Rewrite the scriptures a little bit. And it makes it easier for me to. To do certain things. Talking to a guy the other night.
[19:54] And he uses. NIV. And he's starting to question the NIV. That's a good thing. But he said. He's questioning it.
[20:04] Because of the things it leaves out. And because it left this out. And left this out. It changes things. And it does things. You know. Makes a difference. And his thing was.
[20:17] I forgot what he was using now. Jared. What was he using? I know he talked about. The flesh and the bones. But I can't remember. What led into it. Was it Ephesians?
[20:34] Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember what it was. But anyway. His concern was. That it was leaving stuff out. That actually affected.
[20:44] The way you view the scripture. And what was going on there. Ephesians 5.30. For we are members of his body. Of his flesh.
[20:55] And of his bones. And we were talking about the fact. That the NIV just says. We are members of his body. Stops there. Doesn't mention the flesh and the bones. And.
[21:06] One of the things I brought up was. What does the Bible say. The life comes from. The blood. The blood. Where.
[21:19] If we don't have the flesh and the bones. Where's the blood coming from. I said. There's a guy there. Who's a doctor. And he said. I said.
[21:30] He can verify this. If I remember this right. But I'm remembering it from. From high school. Science. But the marrow of the bones. Is where the red blood cells are produced. If you don't have the flesh and the bones.
[21:43] Where's the. Where's the blood. Couldn't that also be that. God made Adam. One of the dust of the earth. So therefore. All of our descendants. Are basically.
[21:54] I mean. The dust of the earth. Regardless of where they come in their lives. Yep. They're all part of the dust of the earth. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I know this is something that's come up.
[22:04] On that. Thursday. Bible study. Because we had all different versions. Who would. Have to compare. How different. The word. And I remember there was one. One of the other guys.
[22:15] Had a JIV. It wasn't so much that. It was like shorter. Taking word up. It just worded it. Completely differently. And it reworded it.
[22:25] In such a way. And I made a comment about it. When I read. Out of King James. That it changed the severity. Of the command of the given.
[22:36] And I made it more. Somewhat. Suggestion. King James. With the word that he used. It was more. Strict command. That's why they made it.
[22:47] It came up. Because the way they worded things. It didn't so much change. The subject. It just changed the tone. Yep. I remember. I was.
[22:58] I had a service here. One time. People who used to be here. A long time ago. And they used NIV. And. They. I preached on baptism. And I was.
[23:09] Talking from. Acts. Chapter 2. And they came up to me. After the service. And they said. You know. The verse you were reading. It says. My Bible says this. And they showed me the verse. And they're like.
[23:20] That changes the doctrine. Doesn't it? I said. Yeah. Absolutely. It does. It's not the same doctrine. That I was just teaching you. And so. They were like. Wow. Okay. I have to think about this.
[23:31] As far as I know. They still use NIV. But. But. They understood. That you know. That would change him. So. What is Satan trying to do? He's trying to get us to question. The word of God.
[23:42] That's. What he's always trying to. Cause it's confusion. And God is not the author. That's right. God is not the author of confusion. So. And he also. Down the words.
[23:53] Of the. It's easy for them. That's the way. Things that. About time. You're not supposed to do.
[24:04] You're not. You're not allowed. When they walk down. Like they do it. Mm-hmm. And another thing. About this. Just popped in my head. Um. the idea that and I've heard people talk about this even recently well like we were just talking about well the words may not all be exactly right the Bible has but God the idea that God wanted you to have is there he's getting his idea across to you a lot of the translations are not word for word they are well this is what this passage means and so therefore they put it this is the idea God wanted you to get yeah I hear something else I think you read that first there you know Bible Mark and Bible interpretation I'm not an extreme King James owner and I don't know if that's how they come up how extreme they are but one of the reasons I like the King James
[25:05] King James when I was translated they had like 300 men working on it the other thing that I pointed out with people like the NIV and some of these other translations a lot of times it was one person translating whole like chapters or whole books yep yep I use J.B. Phillips commentaries a lot of times I like his commentaries and stuff but James B. Phillips also wrote his own translation of the Bible just him by himself I'm not going there nope not doing that so yep good point Dana wasn't the King James Version written because one particular king in England didn't like the Pope's interpretation of the Bible so he had it rewritten in his understanding of what it was I'm not completely sure about the whole history I don't know about what inspired King James
[26:07] I can't remember what inspired King James to do it but I do know that was a lot of times again I think it was before that long before that that England split off from the Catholic Church and that Catholic Church was death on the common people knowing the Bible in fact they burned a lot of people in the states for translating the Bible yep and I do know that even though you got 300 men working on translating it they did not start from scratch right they borrowed on earlier men Coverdale, Geneva different ones different translations that had come before so he actually he didn't like what it said right he didn't like the way that they used it to interpret things yeah Jared I think it's just so very important to go back to what you love what you mentioned before how things from the beginning are very painful questions get people that I don't need to question what God really says and I think that's the essence
[27:10] I think that's what it comes down to is the fact that there's why we have so many different cultures and different religions so many things out there because by man's thought this is well this is what I think God is saying we really can get the point they know this is what God is you don't have to think about it you can't know and I think that is the wrong once you get back you want to get what God said it makes sense because there's confusion I don't know what Christ said there's confusion that's not from God there's so many things that like if you talk to different people and different cultures different religions people have and it really just comes down to and we go back to where we started out in this study you know how many different copies do we have of the ancient text and how they have you know as you go along they're all the same there's no difference in them whatsoever so you stick with the originals and go from there
[28:15] James chapter 4 verse 6 says this but he giveth more grace wherefore he saith God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble the people who are doing the translation the people who are doing the interpretation the people what is their attitude what are they trying to accomplish are they trying to serve God and glorify God or are they trying to hey I came up with this this is a pretty good sound sounds pretty good doesn't it and I think a lot of people today are doing that they're coming up with their own translation thinking you know God says look your pride is going to keep you from really truly understanding what I have for you follow my word trust my word and do what it says all of this other stuff is immaterial just do take my word and do it and follow it all right next week we'll go on to another part of the things about the
[29:28] Bible so all right let's have a word prayer father up up