Ok, so the bible is inerrant, though I am not agreeing or disagreeing. The problem comes in when it comes to interpretation of what the scriptures mean, as every church and preacher teaches so many different and contrasting doctrines from one another based upon their own interpretation of the scriptures. The fact is that the scriptures are authoritative, but only if you understand what they say from the original intent. Anything else is corruption. Therefore almost all preachers and churches teach falsehoods because they do not interpret the scriptures properly. Thus, when they say the scriptures are inerrant, they are giving themselves credibility where credibility is not deserved.
At 5:40-6:00 of this video, this man who claims that the bible is inerrant then goes on to say, "where Paul says inspired by God, it should read, expired by God." In this, he changes what the scripture says to meet what he wants it to say. Doesn't he contradict his own doctrine by changing what it says?
I believe he is referring to 2 Tim. 3:16 Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,....... "breathed out," hence expiration.
R.C, even today, being in heaven, you are teaching me the word of the LORD with unparalleled tones. What a living legacy you left to us! Again, Rest in eternal peace!
He had a way of taking complex ideas and making them simple or more so. What cracks me up is his stupor when he does it. It is like he is implying, "How do you not get this?"
Thanks R. C. Sproul *4 This Powerful, Blessful, Deep Sermon of "Infallibility, Inerrancy & Inerrancy; Hath God Said ?" Where I Say Just As R. C. Sproul That The Bible Is The Inspiration of Our Great Almighty God 4 The Scripture Is Given By The Inspiration of God; & Is Profitable 4 Doctrine, 4 Correction & 4 Inspiration In Righteousness Written In 2nd Timothy 3:16 4 God's Word Is God Talking 2 Us Thru The 66 Books of The Bible In 39 From The Old Testament & 27 From The New Testament* & May Our Great Almighty God Bless Yu Late R. C. Sproul 4 Yu are Dearly Missed & Ligonier Ministries So Very Much.🙏🙏
To have been able to sit in the audience to this great man of Christ… The legacy and ministry he paved the way for, that God so uses to teach and equip the body of Christ, has been such a great tool for me in my growth as a Christian in the last couple years.
Amen. As a Catholic I greatly appreciated the clarity of the definition. Folks tend to get me on my heels when they attack scripture as errant since it was written by fallible men. This talk helped me to prepare a clear response. So, again, amen and thank you.
@@tipsy09 I will try. Inerrancy by virtue of potentially inherent dogmatic implications of the term (addressed more fully by Sproul) developed a negative connotation around the 18th or 19th century (again, see video, I forget when). This had a profound affect on Western culture, leading MANY to distrust the Bible as the WHOLLY TRUE AND RELIABLE WORD OF GOD HIMSELF. The twist is, ironically, people were OK with the term 'infallable' in spite of their rejection of 'inerrant'. What Sproul does here, admirably, is explain that 'infallable' is actually a more dogmatic term than inerrant, so that those who accepted the former term at the expense of the latter were demonstrating themselves to be dimwitted. But in the end analysis, since everyone (or most) agree that the Bible is the infallable Word of God, society and culture can thus rest easy that ABSOLUTE TRUTH endures via Sola Scriptura.
@@tipsy09 I found his defining of terms really helpful, he said… “Inerrancy does not mean that there are not grammatical crudities to be found in the Bible. Nor does it mean that the Bible speaks with absolute scientific precision. Inerrancy means no errors of truth, no deceit, no fraud, no lies.”
In am here 2024 because a close relative of mine, grown up in a bible believing church, today 40 years later believe that Paul and Jesus contradict each other. I have never before had to argue with him on such things, but since the internet came he has during a period of 10 to 15 years changed his theology from believing the canon consisting of 66 books to doubt Paul and even the main understanding of the new covenant. Growing up as a bible believing Pentecostal he has now summoned his beliefs in mainly keeping the commandments and thus doing the will of God. His reason for that is that emperor Constantine and the Catholic Church decided what books were to be in the bible and not God. The last two years he has even started to believe that the doctrine of the trinity is false teaching. I am perplexed of this falling away. Somebody had this trouble with close friends now in our modern day?
The christian God jesus is Satan the devil and he is not coming back... Christians worship Satan with a human sacrifice of jesus to Satan... you've been deceived... repent accept Jahovah and do good works.
@@cwdor be careful with your blasphemy, you are playing with fire. God is not mocked. He can snuff out your life in a second. Repent and ask Jesus the King of Kings for forgiveness. Or as the Old Testament says, kiss the Son lest he gets angry. He has the power to cast you into the lake of fire for all eternity. This is a warning, take it seriously!
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 1CORINTHIANS 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
Yeah when you're pondering the thought in it all comes to you in this total understanding where you could explain it see it perfectly with the proper words and everything. As if you knew it all along
“ The word of the wise are like goads ( prodding)… but beyond this ( going further than the Word of the Almighty) my son be warned: the writing of many books is endless and excessive STUDY and DEVOTION TO BOOKS IS WEARYING TO THE BODY.” Ecclesiastes 12:11-12✝️
The answer to “why does God allow sin” , is He Doesn’t!!! All sin was accounted for on the Cross for those who believe. (The mystery of salvation) Pray for understanding then pray some more. Then after that pray again. Do you get the point. Jesus (ABBA, Daddy, Papa…) loves us!!! Talk to Him. Your life depends on it. The pulpits don’t save. Only your Faith will save. It is written…🙏🔑✌️
RC Sproul was an outstanding lecturer, this is all very interesting, but I hoped he would say something about how inspiration works. Because if God does not dictate, how are you sure that what the authors of the Biblical books wrote are God's word? When the books of the Old Testament were written, there was no Bible yet, when Paul wrote his letters, there was no New Testament yet. How do you determine that these writings - and only these writings - are inspired and inerrant, when different churches have different canon? Then what about the clear contradictions between books of the Bible? E.g. the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke. Was Jesus born when Herod still lived, or later, when Cyrinus was governor of Syria? Were Joseph and Mary living in Bethlehem, and fled to Egypt before settling in Narareth as Matthew relates, or were they living in Nazareth who only visited Bethlehem because of a census, and after presenting Jesus in the temple returned to Nazareth? Was Jesus crucified on Easter day, as Mark says, or the day before Easter as John says. How do you reconcile these contradictions with the concept of inspiration and inerrancy? This lecture does not answer these questions.
@@thewanderer6589 I certainly do not read the KJV, for once English is not my native tounge, and I prefer reading the Bible in my own native tounge, second the KJV is just a translation of the Bible like any other translation. Should I want to read the Bible in English, I would choose a translation which was made from best manuscripts and which is in modern English, since I know modern English much better than the English of Shakespeare's time. But you did not answer my question. How can you speak of the inerrancy of the Bible when there are obvious contradictions between different books of the Bible? (I mentioned two contradictions between the gospels.)
Well, in a court of law, if all 4 witnesses say the exact same thing, is considered untrustworthy, definetely suspicious. 4 ex: My husband's van broke down. I brought it to the mechanic and he fixed the car. Well, I'm a lier because is it a VAN not a CAR?
The Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit. The gospels were written for different people. For instance Matthew was addressed to the Jews. Luke for the Gentiles, etc.
If we rearrange R.C. Sproul's words, we arrive at a definition closer to the truth: "Divine inspiration is the term later men attach to a previous human author's activity, when those later men require a vehicle to enable them to set forth a divine and supernatural origin for the human author's words." There only appear to be stars farther than 6,000 years old, according to Young Earth Creationists. Their starlight is real but the parent star is only a fiction in the sky. Likewise, the authors and the writings of the Bible are real, but the divine inspiration behind them is just a fiction that later men placed in their own imaginations.
Good stuff, but regarding the title of the series “Hath God said…” there is a problem with using Gen. 3:1 as a rally cry for biblical inspiration or inerrancy. It appears to be utilized this way because of a perceived parallel between the serpent’s questioning of God’s word and the modern unbeliever questioning whether Scripture is God’s word (or whether he has spoken at all). The parallel dissolves in light of the direct objects of the two questions. For the serpent’s question, the direct object is a faulty quote (“you can’t eat from any tree in the garden”) whereas for the unbeliever, the direct object is Scripture itself. One is a twisted, inaccurate version of what God said, the other is God’s very speech. These should not be confused. The problem ultimately is that the correct answer to each question is different. To answer the serpent correctly, one would say “no, God has not said that” whereas to the unbeliever you would answer “yes, God has indeed spoken through Scripture.”
The doctrine claiming that the Bible is the perfect, complete and inerrant word of God is extra-biblical. By what authority is the doctrine of the Bible’s inerrancy declared?
By what authority do you bring your interpretations that imply errancy? Is your interpretation and knowledge of the history inerrant? Liberals use extra-biblical knowledge of linguistics and history to deny the factual veracity of scripture themselves. In many places in the Psalms it declares God's truth is without fault and pure words. It declares the writings of the apostles are from God, and that God does not err. Much like the doctrine of the Trinity, it is obvious to anyone who reads.
So when Matthew explicitly says the teachings of Jesus are not meant for the gentiles, which directly contradicts Paul’s position???????? So many problems with that book.
What does God want skeptics to do, who notice that conservative Trinitarian Christian scholars cannot even agree on bible inerrancy and many others find it a waste of time to discuss? Does God want us spiritually dead skeptics to "figure out" which camp is "right" about such spiritual truth? LOL
Sproul has knowingly misled his audience about the meaning of "infallibility." It means that the biblical texts, despite their flaws and limitations, will "unerringly convey" divine truth to the spiritually-prepared reader. Infallibility insists that God safeguards the complete divinely-guided process of inspiration/writing of texts/hearing or reading/comprehension or conviction. Inerrancy refers to the texts themselves and is easily refuted, both as a logical concept, a practical possibility, and an actual historical fact. God did not safeguard the texts, either originally or as we have them now.
The Bible itself says it may not be inerrant. If anyone add or deletes to the Biblical text their judgement will be increased. So the Bible itself admits people may have/could have changed the text.
@@Yesica1993 Revelations 22:18-19::I warn everyone who hears the words of this prophecy of this book: If anyone ADDS anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone TAKES AWAY WORDS away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. ===> there you have it, the Bible admitting that people in future may add or delete from the text.
@@mdb1239 that is not what the passage says in any way shape or form. It’s talking about adding to what is divinely inspired it’s not saying that can’t be other inspired author is that ad on to the text.
Biblical inerrancy is just at useless doctrine, because it is not the Bible that is the truth, the way and the life. It is Jesus. If you do not know Jesus you will never find truth in the Bible. Many theologians love scripture more than they love God and their neighbours and because of that they do not know Jesus. Do not follow priests or theologians only follow our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God.
@MaingiGeorge You have no idea what scrolls Timothy and the early christians of "the way" were using (and by the way, the sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls were called "the way" as well as the early christian church) and all scripture being God-breathed is not the same as saying every word on the page is inerrant and infallible, nor does it change the fact that different people interpret it differently. I can just as easily throw the line about dead letter that St Paul uses about the law in Corinthians unless the spirit is coming with power. 2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJ21) "who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament - not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life". Interpretation is the biggest problem and you need the Spirit to effectively interpret. What McCarthy does is read it all literally like Rabbi Tovia Singer does with a different slant because Rabbi Tovia hates Jesus and likes to highlight every inconsistency in the NT, and he knows the NT very well. McCarthy is wrong!
Guy doesn't even believe he has God's word. Foolish for a Christian. But he uses perversions of God's word. Most do. I have God's word. Perfect and complete . Bible correctors are mentioned in my Bible. They are called unbelieving.
Were the biblical authors capable of authentically loving God WHILE God was allegedly successfully preventing them from erring? If so, then why doesn't God impose on the rest of humanity this magical influence whereby they can't err, but but but...they are still capable of authentically loving him? In other words, conditions necessitated by biblical inerrancy refute the popular retort that "God doesn't prevent us from erring because that would take away our freewill, and we need freewill to authentically love god". That's false. Apparently, under conditions necessitated by biblical inerrancy, God IS capable of rendering you incapable of erring while preserving your ability to authentically love him. NOW what is so unreasonable in the skeptic who says God has no excuse for allowing evil, because we know from the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that God CAN and actually DID preserve a creature's ability to authentically love him while simultaneously infallibly preventing them from erring, is actually achievable in this present fallen world?
I understand your argument, but consider; are being "influenced" by God and freely choosing to love him really mutually exclusive categories? It is my understanding of the Christian doctrine that we have free will, because that is what's necessary for any love or relationship to be meaningful. However, mankind chose rebellion against God. We as Christians understand that we ought to use our free will to choose God and to love Him. Part of doing that is admitting that we have made a mess of things through our own choices, and that we can only be saved through his power. Being saved requires us to VOLUNTARILY submit to his will! It sounds counterintuitive, but it's necessary for salvation. God cannot and will not work the same way through people that actively, consciously reject his grace and authority. We can see that God wrote the Bible through Godly men. (Godly, not perfect!!!) It is fair to say that through their experience with Him, the many biblical authors are willing to let God speak through him. This is how the prophets worked, is it not how scripture works? As for your final argument, it isn't an unreasonable question by any means. I don't know why God would make a creature who had the possibility to fall away from him. I don't think anyone can truly grasp that on this Earth. But God DID show that He loves us, He showed it by dying on the cross.
He does explain the difference of the words well, however most people don't understand the differences. Which is why I so boldly exclaim INSPIRED. Even the great apostle Paul was biblically weak when it came to women, I have biblical proof of that. But we have been breaking God's very first commandment. We have exalted the bible to the level of an idol
the bible has in it the holy word of God. if you don't believe what is in holy scripture, then you gotta question what you really believe in. a christian that does not believe holy scripture is really not a christian at all.
You think I AM is cult belief when theology preaching secular history is false for centuries nothing new under the sun. You all were sons of God like allegory Jesus was teaching, Paul hinted it! Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: You can't believe it yet.
You are not a Christian it you do not believe in inerrancy.. R.C. Sproul.was obsessed with unbelievers and their totally irrelevant views. Colossians 2;8
How can the Bible be infallible and inerrant? God says Gen 6:6 6And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth, and He became grieved in His heart. God thought he had made a mistake! If God might make a mistake then there could be errors in the Bible. Either God is not infallible because he makes mistakes and therefore neither is the Bible infallible or the Bible is ERRANT at Gen 6:6! Also when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found they found there was a whole verse missing from the Masoretic text from one of the books. The text makes more sense with this verse included. They think the scribe got distracted at some point and when he got back to scribing the text, he jumped accidentally to the same word but in the next verse missing out a whole passage. So the Bible is not inerrant. If there is inerrancy then it can only be the Word of God which is inerrant which may or may not be written down correctly in the Bible. On top of that the Bible has many interpretations snd translations. Jews and Christians can be markedly different in their translations and interpretations of the Old Testament. So it is not safe to call the Bible inerrant and infallible. There was no canon when Jesus was on the earth and protestants have a different Canon to the Catholics. They removed the Apocrypha because they did not have an early enough copy. Therefore they said the apocrpha was not to be included in the canon. The trouble is most of this apocrypha was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Hebrew or Aramaic. Therefore tje Catholic Canon was right. Only people who have never experienced the Holy Spirit with power could rely so totally and heavily on the Bible and yet the Bible would not exist without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. John MaCarthy criticises the Charismatics about their experiences of the Holy Spirit but these experiences are Biblical. Look at 1 Kings 8:11 the priests in the temple could not stand up to minister to the people because the glory cloud was so powerful and filled the temple.
@@MaingiGeorge You have no idea what scrolls Timothy and the early christians of "the way" were using (and by the way, the sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls were called "the way" as well as the early christian church) and all scripture being God-breathed is not the same as saying every word on the page is inerrant and infallible, nor does it change the fact that different people interpret it differently. I can just as easily throw the line about dead letter that St Paul uses about the law in Corinthians unless the spirit is coming with power. 2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJ21) "who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament - not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life". Interpretation is the biggest problem and you need the Spirit to effectively interpret. What McCarthy does is read it all literally like Rabbi Tovia Singer does with a different slant because Rabbi Tovia hates Jesus and likes to highlight every inconsistency in the NT, and he knows the NT very well. McCarthy is wrong!
Well in reality most of the textual analysis and criticisms occurred within the last 500 years, since the Bible was made more available in languages other than Greek and Hebrew - - I. E since the Reformation. Yes I know there were strong early Christian traditions of Bible study and commentary in the first few hundred years of Christianity, too, like from the church fathers and people like Augustine of Hippo.
Does not the Quran proclaim Jesus as a prophet of Allah? And Jesus proclaimed himself to be God. And Allah would not allow his prophets to be liars nor to have his words through them to be lost or changed, right?
This message is from R.C. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Hath God Said? Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/hath-god-said
Thanks Ligonier Ministries & May Our Great Almighty God Be With Yu All The Time.🙏
Ok, so the bible is inerrant, though I am not agreeing or disagreeing. The problem comes in when it comes to interpretation of what the scriptures mean, as every church and preacher teaches so many different and contrasting doctrines from one another based upon their own interpretation of the scriptures. The fact is that the scriptures are authoritative, but only if you understand what they say from the original intent. Anything else is corruption. Therefore almost all preachers and churches teach falsehoods because they do not interpret the scriptures properly. Thus, when they say the scriptures are inerrant, they are giving themselves credibility where credibility is not deserved.
At 5:40-6:00 of this video, this man who claims that the bible is inerrant then goes on to say, "where Paul says inspired by God, it should read, expired by God." In this, he changes what the scripture says to meet what he wants it to say. Doesn't he contradict his own doctrine by changing what it says?
I believe he is referring to 2 Tim. 3:16 Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,....... "breathed out," hence expiration.
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R.C, even today, being in heaven, you are teaching me the word of the LORD with unparalleled tones. What a living legacy you left to us! Again, Rest in eternal peace!
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An honor for me, to be listening to RC still in 2021. He enriches my religious concepts in every excellent sermon
Pastor R.C. was such a gifted teacher. I greatly respect and continue to be blown away by his knowledge on the Bible and biblical doctrine.
He had a way of taking complex ideas and making them simple or more so. What cracks me up is his stupor when he does it. It is like he is implying, "How do you not get this?"
I was privileged to be a student of RC Sproul at Gordon College in the 1960s.
@@yoursuccessfullife.Cool! And what was it like??
Thanks R. C. Sproul *4 This Powerful, Blessful, Deep Sermon of "Infallibility, Inerrancy & Inerrancy; Hath God Said ?" Where I Say Just As R. C. Sproul That The Bible Is The Inspiration of Our Great Almighty God 4 The Scripture Is Given By The Inspiration of God; & Is Profitable 4 Doctrine, 4 Correction & 4 Inspiration In Righteousness Written In 2nd Timothy 3:16 4 God's Word Is God Talking 2 Us Thru The 66 Books of The Bible In 39 From The Old Testament & 27 From The New Testament* & May Our Great Almighty God Bless Yu Late R. C. Sproul 4 Yu are Dearly Missed & Ligonier Ministries So Very Much.🙏🙏
True and Trustworthy is He AMEN
To have been able to sit in the audience to this great man of Christ… The legacy and ministry he paved the way for, that God so uses to teach and equip the body of Christ, has been such a great tool for me in my growth as a Christian in the last couple years.
Amen. As a Catholic I greatly appreciated the clarity of the definition. Folks tend to get me on my heels when they attack scripture as errant since it was written by fallible men. This talk helped me to prepare a clear response. So, again, amen and thank you.
I am so thankful for these video records. Sadly I was only introduced to R.C. Sproul after his passing, what a great teacher.
Me too. Still inspired though.
Well said...best theological explanation in simple terms.
R.C. Sproul is great 👍👍👍
Thankful that these videos are available for us all to see.
RC always inspires me with the Lord's word
This is absolutely excellent.
R.C is a blessing
His penmanship is as legible as inerrancy is logical.
I love Dr. Sproul. I hate that he fell victim to '80s perms, however.
Great teaching
You’ll find no better explanation of Biblical infallibility and inerrancy than that here by RC Sproul. Or of Shibboleth for that matter.
You could sure say that again
I’ve seen a bunch of sprouls teachings but this one I don’t get entirely. Can you summarize?
@@tipsy09 I will try. Inerrancy by virtue of potentially inherent dogmatic implications of the term (addressed more fully by Sproul) developed a negative connotation around the 18th or 19th century (again, see video, I forget when). This had a profound affect on Western culture, leading MANY to distrust the Bible as the WHOLLY TRUE AND RELIABLE WORD OF GOD HIMSELF. The twist is, ironically, people were OK with the term 'infallable' in spite of their rejection of 'inerrant'. What Sproul does here, admirably, is explain that 'infallable' is actually a more dogmatic term than inerrant, so that those who accepted the former term at the expense of the latter were demonstrating themselves to be dimwitted. But in the end analysis, since everyone (or most) agree that the Bible is the infallable Word of God, society and culture can thus rest easy that ABSOLUTE TRUTH endures via Sola Scriptura.
@@Westrwjr wow thanks I think that’s where I got confused. People saying it was infallible but not inerrant
@@tipsy09 I found his defining of terms really helpful, he said…
“Inerrancy does not mean that there are not grammatical crudities to be found in the Bible. Nor does it mean that the Bible speaks with absolute scientific precision. Inerrancy means no errors of truth, no deceit, no fraud, no lies.”
Inspiration- THE WORD OF GOD
Infallibility- THE WORD OF GOD
INERRANCY- THE WORD OF GOD
In am here 2024 because a close relative of mine, grown up in a bible believing church, today 40 years later believe that Paul and Jesus contradict each other. I have never before had to argue with him on such things, but since the internet came he has during a period of 10 to 15 years changed his theology from believing the canon consisting of 66 books to doubt Paul and even the main understanding of the new covenant. Growing up as a bible believing Pentecostal he has now summoned his beliefs in mainly keeping the commandments and thus doing the will of God. His reason for that is that emperor Constantine and the Catholic Church decided what books were to be in the bible and not God. The last two years he has even started to believe that the doctrine of the trinity is false teaching. I am perplexed of this falling away. Somebody had this trouble with close friends now in our modern day?
What is the chief end of man ?
Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
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The christian God jesus is Satan the devil and he is not coming back... Christians worship Satan with a human sacrifice of jesus to Satan... you've been deceived... repent accept Jahovah and do good works.
@@cwdor be careful with your blasphemy, you are playing with fire. God is not mocked. He can snuff out your life in a second. Repent and ask Jesus the King of Kings for forgiveness. Or as the Old Testament says, kiss the Son lest he gets angry. He has the power to cast you into the lake of fire for all eternity. This is a warning, take it seriously!
@@cwdor All Gods are false.
Appreciate Sproul. Also he had great hair back then
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
1CORINTHIANS 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
Yeah when you're pondering the thought in it all comes to you in this total understanding where you could explain it see it perfectly with the proper words and everything. As if you knew it all along
“ The word of the wise are like goads ( prodding)… but beyond this ( going further than the Word of the Almighty) my son be warned: the writing of many books is endless and excessive STUDY and DEVOTION TO BOOKS IS WEARYING TO THE BODY.”
Ecclesiastes 12:11-12✝️
I have a silk scarf that matches that tie perfectly.
Rc sproul. Solid. 🙂✝️☮
The answer to “why does God allow sin” , is He Doesn’t!!!
All sin was accounted for on the Cross for those who believe. (The mystery of salvation) Pray for understanding then pray some more. Then after that pray again. Do you get the point. Jesus (ABBA, Daddy, Papa…) loves us!!! Talk to Him. Your life depends on it. The pulpits don’t save. Only your Faith will save. It is written…🙏🔑✌️
RC Sproul was an outstanding lecturer, this is all very interesting, but I hoped he would say something about how inspiration works. Because if God does not dictate, how are you sure that what the authors of the Biblical books wrote are God's word? When the books of the Old Testament were written, there was no Bible yet, when Paul wrote his letters, there was no New Testament yet. How do you determine that these writings - and only these writings - are inspired and inerrant, when different churches have different canon?
Then what about the clear contradictions between books of the Bible? E.g. the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke. Was Jesus born when Herod still lived, or later, when Cyrinus was governor of Syria? Were Joseph and Mary living in Bethlehem, and fled to Egypt before settling in Narareth as Matthew relates, or were they living in Nazareth who only visited Bethlehem because of a census, and after presenting Jesus in the temple returned to Nazareth?
Was Jesus crucified on Easter day, as Mark says, or the day before Easter as John says.
How do you reconcile these contradictions with the concept of inspiration and inerrancy?
This lecture does not answer these questions.
Keep reading using the kjv. Pray asking God to teach you what he desires for you to know. ☮✝️
@@thewanderer6589 I certainly do not read the KJV, for once English is not my native tounge, and I prefer reading the Bible in my own native tounge, second the KJV is just a translation of the Bible like any other translation. Should I want to read the Bible in English, I would choose a translation which was made from best manuscripts and which is in modern English, since I know modern English much better than the English of Shakespeare's time.
But you did not answer my question. How can you speak of the inerrancy of the Bible when there are obvious contradictions between different books of the Bible? (I mentioned two contradictions between the gospels.)
@@thewanderer6589 what a poor answer.
Well, in a court of law, if all 4 witnesses say the exact same thing, is considered untrustworthy, definetely suspicious.
4 ex:
My husband's van broke down. I brought it to the mechanic and he fixed the car.
Well, I'm a lier because is it a VAN not a CAR?
The Bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit. The gospels were written for different people. For instance Matthew was addressed to the Jews. Luke for the Gentiles, etc.
If we rearrange R.C. Sproul's words, we arrive at a definition closer to the truth: "Divine inspiration is the term later men attach to a previous human author's activity, when those later men require a vehicle to enable them to set forth a divine and supernatural origin for the human author's words."
There only appear to be stars farther than 6,000 years old, according to Young Earth Creationists. Their starlight is real but the parent star is only a fiction in the sky. Likewise, the authors and the writings of the Bible are real, but the divine inspiration behind them is just a fiction that later men placed in their own imaginations.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
I would love that little booklet. I can’t find it online though.
He sounds so much like gershner in this
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So which Bible is in focus here? 🤔
Wow! He had some kind of delivery when he was younger, didn't he,
Truly a signature that is so invaluable to be seen today (like a sort of time machine) because it is what makes him extraordinary. Like no other!
Good stuff, but regarding the title of the series “Hath God said…” there is a problem with using Gen. 3:1 as a rally cry for biblical inspiration or inerrancy. It appears to be utilized this way because of a perceived parallel between the serpent’s questioning of God’s word and the modern unbeliever questioning whether Scripture is God’s word (or whether he has spoken at all).
The parallel dissolves in light of the direct objects of the two questions. For the serpent’s question, the direct object is a faulty quote (“you can’t eat from any tree in the garden”) whereas for the unbeliever, the direct object is Scripture itself. One is a twisted, inaccurate version of what God said, the other is God’s very speech. These should not be confused.
The problem ultimately is that the correct answer to each question is different. To answer the serpent correctly, one would say “no, God has not said that” whereas to the unbeliever you would answer “yes, God has indeed spoken through Scripture.”
The doctrine claiming that the Bible is the perfect, complete and inerrant word of God is extra-biblical. By what authority is the doctrine of the Bible’s inerrancy declared?
By what authority do you bring your interpretations that imply errancy? Is your interpretation and knowledge of the history inerrant? Liberals use extra-biblical knowledge of linguistics and history to deny the factual veracity of scripture themselves.
In many places in the Psalms it declares God's truth is without fault and pure words. It declares the writings of the apostles are from God, and that God does not err. Much like the doctrine of the Trinity, it is obvious to anyone who reads.
So when Matthew explicitly says the teachings of Jesus are not meant for the gentiles, which directly contradicts Paul’s position???????? So many problems with that book.
Could I have a copy of this commentary on the document of affirmations and denials. Thank you.
What does God want skeptics to do, who notice that conservative Trinitarian Christian scholars cannot even agree on bible inerrancy and many others find it a waste of time to discuss? Does God want us spiritually dead skeptics to "figure out" which camp is "right" about such spiritual truth? LOL
Sproul has knowingly misled his audience about the meaning of "infallibility." It means that the biblical texts, despite their flaws and limitations, will "unerringly convey" divine truth to the spiritually-prepared reader. Infallibility insists that God safeguards the complete divinely-guided process of inspiration/writing of texts/hearing or reading/comprehension or conviction. Inerrancy refers to the texts themselves and is easily refuted, both as a logical concept, a practical possibility, and an actual historical fact. God did not safeguard the texts, either originally or as we have them now.
The Bible itself says it may not be inerrant. If anyone add or deletes to the Biblical text their judgement will be increased. So the Bible itself admits people may have/could have changed the text.
It teaches no such thing.
@@Yesica1993 Revelations 22:18-19::I warn everyone who hears the words of this prophecy of this book: If anyone ADDS anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone TAKES AWAY WORDS away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
===> there you have it, the Bible admitting that people in future may add or delete from the text.
@@mdb1239 that is not what the passage says in any way shape or form. It’s talking about adding to what is divinely inspired it’s not saying that can’t be other inspired author is that ad on to the text.
Biblical inerrancy is just at useless doctrine, because it is not the Bible that is the truth, the way and the life. It is Jesus. If you do not know Jesus you will never find truth in the Bible.
Many theologians love scripture more than they love God and their neighbours and because of that they do not know Jesus.
Do not follow priests or theologians only follow our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God.
Scientifically, Genesis is accurate. Is he saying it is not? I just need understanding of context.
@MaingiGeorge You have no idea what scrolls Timothy and the early christians of "the way" were using (and by the way, the sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls were called "the way" as well as the early christian church) and all scripture being God-breathed is not the same as saying every word on the page is inerrant and infallible, nor does it change the fact that different people interpret it differently. I can just as easily throw the line about dead letter that St Paul uses about the law in Corinthians unless the spirit is coming with power.
2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJ21) "who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament - not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life".
Interpretation is the biggest problem and you need the Spirit to effectively interpret.
What McCarthy does is read it all literally like Rabbi Tovia Singer does with a different slant because Rabbi Tovia hates Jesus and likes to highlight every inconsistency in the NT, and he knows the NT very well.
McCarthy is wrong!
If it’s not “my words in her pen” then why do you call the Bible “God’s Word”?
Being true to Christian dogma.......YUCK!
13:20 ugh…. are you going to leave us hanging and not give us your opinion? They’re watching the video I was hoping for more.
Why 66 books?
What about the other 14?
Guy doesn't even believe he has God's word. Foolish for a Christian. But he uses perversions of God's word. Most do. I have God's word. Perfect and complete . Bible correctors are mentioned in my Bible. They are called unbelieving.
Were the biblical authors capable of authentically loving God WHILE God was allegedly successfully preventing them from erring?
If so, then why doesn't God impose on the rest of humanity this magical influence whereby they can't err, but but but...they are still capable of authentically loving him?
In other words, conditions necessitated by biblical inerrancy refute the popular retort that "God doesn't prevent us from erring because that would take away our freewill, and we need freewill to authentically love god". That's false.
Apparently, under conditions necessitated by biblical inerrancy, God IS capable of rendering you incapable of erring while preserving your ability to authentically love him.
NOW what is so unreasonable in the skeptic who says God has no excuse for allowing evil, because we know from the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that God CAN and actually DID preserve a creature's ability to authentically love him while simultaneously infallibly preventing them from erring, is actually achievable in this present fallen world?
I understand your argument, but consider; are being "influenced" by God and freely choosing to love him really mutually exclusive categories?
It is my understanding of the Christian doctrine that we have free will, because that is what's necessary for any love or relationship to be meaningful. However, mankind chose rebellion against God. We as Christians understand that we ought to use our free will to choose God and to love Him. Part of doing that is admitting that we have made a mess of things through our own choices, and that we can only be saved through his power. Being saved requires us to VOLUNTARILY submit to his will! It sounds counterintuitive, but it's necessary for salvation. God cannot and will not work the same way through people that actively, consciously reject his grace and authority.
We can see that God wrote the Bible through Godly men. (Godly, not perfect!!!) It is fair to say that through their experience with Him, the many biblical authors are willing to let God speak through him. This is how the prophets worked, is it not how scripture works?
As for your final argument, it isn't an unreasonable question by any means. I don't know why God would make a creature who had the possibility to fall away from him. I don't think anyone can truly grasp that on this Earth. But God DID show that He loves us, He showed it by dying on the cross.
He does explain the difference of the words well, however most people don't understand the differences. Which is why I so boldly exclaim INSPIRED. Even the great apostle Paul was biblically weak when it came to women, I have biblical proof of that. But we have been breaking God's very first commandment. We have exalted the bible to the level of an idol
Then what does Paul referring to the bible say it is God-breathed?
the bible has in it the holy word of God. if you don't believe what is in holy scripture, then you gotta question what you really believe in. a christian that does not believe holy scripture is really not a christian at all.
rc sproul always on point.
thank God for his ministry
@@conanlabiche check her out. There is nothing Christian about her
Paul was biblically weak in regards to women!?
Do you not believe in Genesis 1-3? Paul roots his "weakness" here.
You think I AM is cult belief when theology preaching secular history is false for centuries nothing new under the sun. You all were sons of God like allegory Jesus was teaching, Paul hinted it! Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
You can't believe it yet.
It is innerant but not infalable
Why people think this guy is so brilliant? At 14:40, another evidence he is/was not!
He's not brilliant for explaining the dictionary definition of infallibility?????
Unfortunately RC was a Calvinist who believed in and taught a false Calvinist gospel...
You are wrong. The bible teaches about God's Sovereignty. You must not even be saved.
what do you understand for calvinism? 5 points? unfair election? if this is your concept about calvinism, my dear friend you're wrong.
Nothing wrong with Calvinism
amen.
the bible teaches particular redemption. Jesus died for His sheep see John 10. He did not die for the goats see Matthew 25. Which kind are you?
You are not a Christian it you do not believe in inerrancy.. R.C. Sproul.was obsessed with unbelievers and their totally irrelevant views.
Colossians 2;8
That's so dumb it hurts
How can the Bible be infallible and inerrant?
God says Gen 6:6
6And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth, and He became grieved in His heart.
God thought he had made a mistake! If God might make a mistake then there could be errors in the Bible. Either God is not infallible because he makes mistakes and therefore neither is the Bible infallible or the Bible is ERRANT at Gen 6:6!
Also when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found they found there was a whole verse missing from the Masoretic text from one of the books. The text makes more sense with this verse included. They think the scribe got distracted at some point and when he got back to scribing the text, he jumped accidentally to the same word but in the next verse missing out a whole passage. So the Bible is not inerrant. If there is inerrancy then it can only be the Word of God which is inerrant which may or may not be written down correctly in the Bible.
On top of that the Bible has many interpretations snd translations. Jews and Christians can be markedly different in their translations and interpretations of the Old Testament. So it is not safe to call the Bible inerrant and infallible.
There was no canon when Jesus was on the earth and protestants have a different Canon to the Catholics. They removed the Apocrypha because they did not have an early enough copy. Therefore they said the apocrpha was not to be included in the canon. The trouble is most of this apocrypha was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Hebrew or Aramaic. Therefore tje Catholic Canon was right.
Only people who have never experienced the Holy Spirit with power could rely so totally and heavily on the Bible and yet the Bible would not exist without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
John MaCarthy criticises the Charismatics about their experiences of the Holy Spirit but these experiences are Biblical. Look at 1 Kings 8:11 the priests in the temple could not stand up to minister to the people because the glory cloud was so powerful and filled the temple.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
@@MaingiGeorge You have no idea what scrolls Timothy and the early christians of "the way" were using (and by the way, the sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls were called "the way" as well as the early christian church) and all scripture being God-breathed is not the same as saying every word on the page is inerrant and infallible, nor does it change the fact that different people interpret it differently. I can just as easily throw the line about dead letter that St Paul uses about the law in Corinthians unless the spirit is coming with power.
2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJ21) "who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament - not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life".
Interpretation is the biggest problem and you need the Spirit to effectively interpret.
What McCarthy does is read it all literally like Rabbi Tovia Singer does with a different slant because Rabbi Tovia hates Jesus and likes to highlight every inconsistency in the NT, and he knows the NT very well.
McCarthy is wrong!
“Several hundred years”? Even R.C. Is fallible lol😊
Well in reality most of the textual analysis and criticisms occurred within the last 500 years, since the Bible was made more available in languages other than Greek and Hebrew - - I. E since the Reformation. Yes I know there were strong early Christian traditions of Bible study and commentary in the first few hundred years of Christianity, too, like from the church fathers and people like Augustine of Hippo.
The Quran is infallible too! May Allah bless you!
Does not the Quran proclaim Jesus as a prophet of Allah?
And Jesus proclaimed himself to be God.
And Allah would not allow his prophets to be liars nor to have his words through them to be lost or changed, right?
Get out, antichrist.