“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.” (Ps 12:6-7 AV)
For those who are apt to think preservation of the word of God is not promised, just pass on reading the following entry. I will not entertain fools. Those who dispute the above passage teach preservation believe that the ‘them’ are the saved. They do not attribute the ‘them’ to the immediate context of the ‘words’ in the previous verse. Again, I do not entertain fools. Even those who, through carnal thinking, believe that languages not being equal cannot guarantee a perfect translation are again ignored. To take that position would mean that any dialogue with a non-Hebrew speaking individual cannot be perfectly inspired by the Holy Spirit in Hebrew. This would mean the words of Pharoah, Abimelech, and even Joseph are not perfectly inspired in the Hebrew. Even Paul’s words that were spoken in Hebrew, as it appears in Acts chapter 22, cannot be perfectly inspired into Greek, of which we find the book of Acts written. When one abandons the idea of the perfect inspiration, preservation, and translation of the word of God, one becomes his own authority. Even more so, the scholar (so called) who would deny the perfect inspiration, preservation, and translation of the word of God is challenging God’s promise to do so. And therefore borders on blasphemy.
One of the easiest ways to get away with something is to pit two authority figures against each other, and while they are debating, you do as you wish. We did that with our parents all the time. Everyone knows that without an absolute standard, disunity, antipathy, disorder, and tyranny ensue. There must be a perfect authority above mankind in order to keep mankind in order. There cannot be more than one standard of math. One plus one is always two. There cannot be competing standards of gravity. What goes up must come down. When it comes to metaphysical truth, the same applies. There must be an absolute truth that is perfect and without error. If not, then humanity and the church become the nation of Israel as it appears in the book of Judges. Every man will do that which is right in his own eyes because there is no king in the land of Israel.
We have an electronic bathroom scale. It is a problem scale. Every so often, I have to service it. I have to clean the dust off the feet. I have to level it and re-zero it. A few weeks ago, it switched from pounds and ounces to the metric system without the hard switch being thrown. I tried a few things. The numbers were a bit more than half of what it would have been in pounds and ounces. I loved those numbers much better. All of a sudden, I lost 75 points. Amazing what a bit of technology failure can do for your self-esteem. I was all set to purchase a mechanical scale, but decided to check the batteries. Sure enough, they were beginning to fail. Bummer. I replaced the batteries, and my weight was back up where it had always been. If we followed the logic of the carnal theologian, either number would be acceptable and as accurate as the other. My weight becomes a preference and not an absolute. Our willingness to accept the inerrantly translated and preserved word of God does not change the fact that it is. This is the folly of the carnal academic. He or she thinks that what is believed is the truth because it is believed. I dare them to speed, get a ticket, and argue that in front of a judge. It doesn’t wash. God’s word is perfectly inspired, perfectly translated, and perfectly preserved. Nothing will change that!
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