Well, friends, count me out. God has promised me a perfect Book, and I am confident in His promise. In this issue of O Timothy we are reproducing an article by Dr. Bruce Lackey on inspiration and preservation. I also want to give statements by the three other men we have mentioned. I would also call our reader's attention to the excellent article on preservation by Jack Moorman which we printed in O Timothy, Volume 9, Issue 8, 1992.
Bible preservation is one of the most neglected doctrines of the twentieth century.
The breath of God, product, not process, conveyed by translation from the immediately inspired language copies of Scripture into any providentially prepared receptor language will impart to that translation infallible authority and doctrinal inerrancy inherent in the original language copies. We believe that all the verses in the King James Version belong in the Old and the New Testaments because they represent words we believe were in the original Texts, although there might be other renderings from the original languages which could also be acceptable to us today. For an exhaustive study of any of the words or verses in the Bible, we urge the student to return directly to the Traditional Masoretic Hebrew Text and the Traditional Received Greek Text rather than to any other translation for help. Bible inspiration and Bible preservation are supremely important. The undermining or destroying of either doctrine renders the other meaningless.