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?
Inspiration
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.
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.
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).
