The view of Old Testament inerrancy held by the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles should be essentially the same view that would have been held by Old Testament believers who lived before the first coming of Christ. But where do we find evidence of what these people believed?
The use of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Gospel of Matthew offers ample evidence that Jesus believed in inspiration and therefore in the corollary of inerrancy.
The purpose of this article is to address one particular aspect of this subject by evaluating the concepts of Ipsissima Verba (IVA) and Ipsissima Vox (IVO), Latin expressions which respectively mean “the very words” and “the very voice.”
The Word of God declares its own inerrancy. It affirms it with direct statements of passages in the Old Testament and declarations from Jesus in the Gospels and with apostolic authority from the Epistles.
The attack on God will not cease until He puts it to an end in His own timing. In the meantime, He has commissioned His church to rightly handle His word (2 Ti 2:15).
From the very beginning, the enemy’s primary tactic has been the same: “Did God actually say . . .” (Ge 3:1)? If he can get humanity to doubt or reject God’s Word, the rest unravels from there.
The battle for the Bible is obviously continuing, as challenges emerge from many directions. This article addresses a few of these challenges.
Our commitment to the Bible must be built upon the ultimate commitment that this book we preach is God’s Word and not man’s. From this truth we derive all our authority to proclaim the matters of life and death to the Church and the world (2 Co 2:16).
“The episode in Genesis 6:1-4 is quite difficult to interpret and has been the subject of much debate. Although there are various interpretations of this passage, historically two views have dominated the debate: (1) the angelic descent view and (2) the human seed line view.”
“The eternal God chose to become human, chose to be the servant of humans, and willingly gave His life for sin. To all who receive Him, to those who believe in His name, He gives the power to become children of God… “
