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?
Canonicity
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.
