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Berean Class

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God Gave Us Jesus & the inspiration & infallibility of the Bible

News of the week

  1. Understanding the Times: Today at 1:00 on 88.1 FM or anytime at links below
    1. Jan replays a talk by Ed Hinson on “The Final Hour”
    2. OliveTreeViews: https://olivetreeviews.org/radio-archives/
    3. YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ep2Dct914MY Rumble: https://bit.ly/3PO1Lit
    4. Ed Hindson’s website: https://www.TheKingIsComing.com
  2. Get Dr. Malone’s new book “Lies My Gov’t Told Me” for FREE (Kindle Edition only)
    1. https://bit.ly/3FQeNap
  3. News Highlights from this week’s Amir Tsarfati’s ‘Telegram’ feeds
    1. Join Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram feed @ https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel
    2. Dec 19 Kamal Kharaz insists that Iran has the capability to produce nukes but “we don’t intend to” because a) it’s haram and b) will lead to a nuclear arms race in the region. (Sure… we believe you)
    3. Dec 19 The Swedish court rejected the decision to extradite a Kurdish journalist wanted in Turkey. That means that Turkey will not sign on the papers to allow Sweden to join NATO.
    4. Dec 19 Don’t expect Israel to believe – not yet. They will believe… when they look at Him whom they pierced. His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. https://bit.ly/3WFM6nA
    5. Dec 19 Belarus President Lukashenko personally meets Putin at the airport in Minsk to persuade Lukashenko about direct involvement in the war. Putin visited Belarus for the 1st time since June 2019.
    6. Dec 19 January 6 committee officially refers Trump, John Eastman, and others for criminal investigation by the Department of Justice — including for conspiracy and inciting and aiding insurrection.
    7. Dec 20 The Associated Press reported that the aid package to Ukraine that Biden will present to Zelensky, which for the first time will include Patriot batteries and JDAM kits, will amount to $1.8 billion.
    8. Dec 21 Putin: “We will continue to train and improve our nuclear readiness forces. Sarmat ballistic missiles will be deployed on the battlefield in the near future…”
    9. Dec 21 New Government in Israel! Netanyahu just informed the president of Israel that he successfully concluded the formation of a new government.
    10. Dec 22 President Putin:”Our goal is not to escalate the military conflict, but on the contrary, to end this war, We will strive to put an end to this, and as soon as possible” (Reuters)
    11. Dec 22 Researchers from NavalNews, who examined satellite images of the Black Sea, noted an unusually large activity of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, including submarines that carry Caliber cruise missiles.
    12. Dec 22 The head of the Israeli Mossad hinted today that a military operation to eliminate the Iranian nuclear program is the only viable option left. (Randy’s comment: Ezekiel 38 here we come!)
    13. Dec 23 A study with a Jewish perspective on God’s Appointed Time: https://youtu.be/LWWxAYkyIX4
    14. Do we really know where Christ was born? https://bit.ly/3VlY6cz
    15. Did God inspire Handel to compose the ‘Messiah’ https://bit.ly/3Gj7Yj8

Can we be assured of the inspiration, inerrancy & infallibility of the Bible? ABSOLUTELY!!!

  1. This question deals with 3 very important issues & processes: inspiration, preservation, and translation.
  2. The doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible teaches that scripture is “God-breathed” … what does that mean?
  3. God personally superintended the writing process, guiding the human ‘transcribers’ so that His complete & accurate message was recorded
    1. One Author; 66 ‘chapters’ of One Story; recorded by 40 ‘transcribers’ over 1,500 years … all with no errors, conflicts or contradictions! (2 Timothy 3:16 & 2 Peter 1:21)
  4. Can the meanings of words change over time? YES! As an example, in Colossians 3:12, Paul says we are to put on the “bowels of mercies” (KJV). The Greek word for “bowels,” which is literally “intestines,” comes from a root word meaning “spleen.”
  5. The KJV translators chose a literal translation of the word. The translators of the NASB chose “heart of compassion”—the “heart” being what today’s culture thinks of as the seat of emotions, though we know even that is just a colloquialism. The Amplified Bible has it as “tenderhearted pity and mercy.” The NIV simply puts “compassion.”
  6. So, the KJV is the most literal in the above example, but the other translations certainly do justice to the verse. The core meaning of the command is to have compassionate feelings.
  7. As a general rule, the more literal translations, such as the KJV & NKJV, the ASB & NASB, have less “interpretative” work.