Biblical Church History
Following the Hand of God and the
Hand of Satan
DO YOU HAVE AN ABSOLUTE
AUTHORITY?
(2Co 2:11) Lest
Satan should get
an advantage of
us: for we are not
ignorant of his
devices.
1st He tries to get her
to question God’s
Word
2nd He changes God’s
Word
3rd He reinterpreted
God’s Word
HIS APPROACH WAS
RELIGION!
So while tracing
Church History we
must be looking for
Men, Movements and
Institutions that are
to bring doubt, to
change, and to
reinterpret the Word
of God
I. Do we
really have
the Word
of God!
THE AVERAGE STATEMENT OF FAITH
BY THE FUNDAMENTAL CHURCHES AND
BIBLE COLLEGES IN AMERICA TODAY
We teach that the Bible is God’s
written revelation of God, and
thus the sixty-six book of the
Bible given to us by the Holy
Spirit constitute the plenary
(inspired equally in all parts)
Word of God. We teach that the
Word of God is an objective,
propositional revelation,
verbally inspired in every word,
absolutely inerrant in the
original manuscripts,
infallible and God-breathed.
1. If the Bible
was only
inspired in the
Originals,
then where
are the
originals ?
2. If we don’t
have the
originals then
is what we are
reading not
inspired
3. If the Bible
was only
inspired in the
Originals, and
the originals
are no more.
Then why
would God not
keep them for
us ?
(2Ti 3:16) All
scripture is given by
inspiration of God,
and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for
instruction in
righteousness:
(2Ti 3:15) And that
from a child thou hast
known the holy
scriptures, which are
able to make thee
wise unto salvation
through faith which is
in Christ Jesus.
Luke 4:16-21
Jeremiah 36
(Act 17:10-11) And the brethren
immediately sent away Paul and
Silas by night unto Berea: who
coming thither went into the
synagogue of the Jews. These
were more noble than those in
Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all
readiness of mind, and searched
the scriptures daily, whether
those things were so.
THE OTHER STATEMENT OF FAITH BY THE
FUNDAMENTAL CHURCHES AND BIBLE
COLLEGES IN AMERICA TODAY
We teach that the Bible is God’s
written revelation of God, and
thus the sixty-six book of the
Bible given to us by the Holy
Spirit constitute the plenary
(inspired equally in all parts)
Word of God. We teach that the
Word of God is an objective,
propositional revelation,
verbally inspired in every word,
absolutely inerrant in the
original languages, infallible
and God-breathed.
II. Did God
ever intend
for us to have
an inspired,
infallible
inerrant Word
in our Hands?
A. The Bible
Answer
(Neh 9:5)… Stand up and bless the
LORD your God for ever and ever:
and blessed be thy glorious
name, which is exalted above all
blessing and praise.
(Act 4:12) Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there
is none other name under
heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved.
(Php 2:9-11) Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is
above every name: That at the
name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things
under the earth; And that every
tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of
God the Father.
(Psa 138:2) I will worship
toward thy holy temple,
and praise thy name for
thy lovingkindness and
for thy truth: for thou
hast magnified thy
word above all thy
name.
B. The Word
Incarnated
(Joh 1:1) In the beginning
was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
(Joh 1:14) And the Word was
made flesh, and dwelt among
us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of
grace and truth.
(Psa 16:10) For thou wilt not
leave my soul in hell; neither
wilt thou suffer thine Holy
One to see corruption.
(Act 13:36-37) For David, after he
had served his own generation by
the will of God, fell on sleep, and
was laid unto his fathers, and saw
corruption: But he, whom God
raised again, saw no corruption.
(Psa 12:6-7) The words of the LORD
are pure words: as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou
shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
(Luk 21:33) Heaven and earth
shall pass away: but my words
shall not pass away.
(1Pe 1:23-25) Being born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of
God, which liveth and abideth
for ever. For all flesh is as grass,
and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass
withereth, and the flower thereof
falleth away: But the word of the
Lord endureth for ever. And this
is the word which by the gospel is
preached unto you.
(Psa 119:160) Thy word is true
from the beginning: and every one
of thy righteous judgments
endureth for ever.
(Isa 40:8) The grass withereth, the
flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand for ever.
(Joh 10:35) If he called them gods,
unto whom the word of God came,
and the scripture cannot be
broken;
Joh 12:48 He that
rejecteth me, and
receiveth not my words,
hath one that judgeth
him: the word that I
have spoken, the same
shall judge him in the
last day.
III. Is the
Word of
God only
inspired in
the original
Languages
THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN ANSWER TO
THE QUESTION “WHERE IS THE INSPIRED,
INERRANT INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD
TODAY?”
“The Word of God has been
preserved in the original
languages, but it is
impossible for you to have a
those actual literal inspired
words in English… because
in translating from one
language to another it is
impossible to have a word
for word translation.”
A. The Bible
Answer
TRANSLATING JOSEPH, HIS BRETHREN
AND THE INTERPRETER
(Gen 42:23) And they
knew not that Joseph
understood them; for
he spake unto them by
an interpreter.
TRANSLATING MOSES AND PHARAOH
(Exo 8:9) And Moses said
unto Pharaoh, Glory over me:
when shall I intreat for thee,
and for thy servants, and for
thy people, to destroy the
frogs from thee and thy
houses, that they may remain in
the river only?
TRANSLATING PAUL AND LUKE
(Act 21:39-40) But Paul said, I am a
man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in
Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I
beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto
the people. And when he had given
him licence, Paul stood on the stairs,
and beckoned with the hand unto the
people. And when there was made a
great silence, he spake unto them in
the Hebrew tongue, saying,
TRANSLATING DANIEL AND
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
(Dan 2:26-27) The king answered and
said to Daniel, whose name was
Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make
known unto me the dream which I have
seen, and the interpretation thereof?
Daniel answered in the presence of the
king, and said, The secret which the
king hath demanded cannot the wise
men, the astrologers, the magicians, the
soothsayers, shew unto the king;
TRANSLATING JONAH AND THE WORKS
AT NINEVEH
(Jon 3:2) Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great city, and
preach unto it the
preaching that I bid thee.
TRANSLATING JESUS AND THE GOSPEL
INSPIRATION
COMPARED TO
PRESERVATION
Inspiration
 GOD
 MAN
 AND BLANK
SHEET OF PAPER
(2Pe 1:20-21) Knowing this
first, that no prophecy of
the scripture is of any
private interpretation. For
the prophecy came not in
old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake
as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost.
PRESERVATION
 GOD
 MAN
THE WORDS GOD
HAS ALREADY
WRITTEN
 AND BLANK
SHEET OF PAPER
CHRISTIAN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION
“WHERE IS THE INSPIRED, INERRANT
INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD TODAY?”
The Actual Words of God
are Preserved in Heaven
(Psa 119:89) For
ever, O LORD, thy
word is settled in
heaven.
(Mat 4:4) But he
answered and said, It is
written, Man shall not
live by bread alone, but
by every word that
proceedeth out of the
mouth of God.