We also believe in the preservation of scripture.
I believe that God preserved his word unto all generations, so it doesn't make
any sense that the true word of God would be buried for thousands of years.
So I reject all of these new modern archaeological findings because
why would the true word of God just disappear off the face of the earth?
Why would we have to go dig it up and look for it? We've always had it.
It's been passed down. Copy of a copy of a copy.
That's what we preach, that's what we believe, that's what we've had our whole lives
and before us and before that and before that. So that's why it's called the received text
because it's what that which we've received that which has been passed down the traditional text
versus a new text that is relying upon something that was just dug up out of the earth.
The received text is basically what churches have received as being God's word over time and
they're the the texts that have been you know also lines up the most with the majority text.
Psalm 12 verse 6 says this, the words of the Lord are pure words. That's inspiration,
they're pure, they're holy, they're God's word. The words of the Lord are pure words.
As silver tried in the furnace of earth purified seven times. Verse 7 says this,
thou shall keep them oh Lord. Thou shall preserve them from this generation forever.
See we as baptists not only believe in the inspiration of scripture.
Look everybody says they believe in the inspiration of the originals and whoever you
talk to will tell you they believe in the inspiration but you know what we also believe in?
We believe in the preservation of scripture. Thou shalt keep them oh Lord. Thou shalt preserve them
from this generation forever. So people say oh yeah the originals were inspired but we've lost
the word of God because the translators messed it all up. Now wait a minute,
it's God who preserves the word of God.
The King James Bible in the English speaking world is the word of God for us today.
Today even those who believe that we have the preserved word of God in the English language
in our King James Bible will sometimes want to split hairs and argue about whether we have the
inspired words or the preserved words but what they don't understand is that if God preserved
his inspired words then we hold in our hands the inspired and preserved word of God.
Inspired means they were spoken by God. That he spoke them. Holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost. Did we preserve the words that God inspired? Then look I've got the inspired
and preserved word of God right now then. If we believe in the preservation of scripture which
we do. Psalm 119 says this forever oh Lord thy word is settled in heaven. Isaiah 40 and verse 8
says the grass withered the flower faded but the word of our God shall stand forever. See as
baptists we believe in the preservation of scripture. By the way in the English language
that's the King James Bible.