part two: history

& heritage
lfbi living faith
bible institute
october 12,
2014
Gods Hand in
History
2 Pet 1:21; 2 Tim 3:16
Session Six
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF YOUR COMPASS
1. God has blessed us with a compass in the _____________, and
that compass is designed to work when the storms of life rage
2. Without a compass, you wont get anyplace but ________
3. If I have the right connection to God, then direction is about me
being transformed by the Spirit of God to measure up to the
________________ of God as found in the word of God
4. To get from where I am to where I am going, my going has to be
ordered by my ______________ of Gods word
WHAT IS YOUR ______________ FOR?
REVELATIONGod manifesting himself
INSPIRATIONthe manifestation coming
down in words
INSCRIPTURATIONthose words recorded
in writing
TRANSMISSIONthat writing copied for
others
PRESERVATIONthose copies being
providentially protected
TRANSLATIONpreserved copies brought
into your language
ILLUMINATIONthe Spirit giving you
understanding of that translation
DEFINITIONS
__________ is the mechanism God uses
to get his word to us without corruption
__________________ is the written
preservation of verbal communication
from God by making it visible in writing;
scripture is what was written, and then
recognized as authoritative
Prov 6:23; Psalm 119:105; Prov 16:25;
Ezek 14:4; 2 Tim 2:15; Psalm 119:15-16

DIRECTIONwhere the Spirit gives you
guidance on where to go
INSTRUCTIONwhere the scripture gives
you wisdom on what to do
PUBLICATIONof translations produced
in your language
Psalm 68:11
The Lord gave the word: great was the
company of those that published it.
INSPIRATION AND ___________ WRITINGS
A. When God's nger touched the tables of
stone to write the Ten Commandments
B. When God's nger touched the plaster-
wall of Belshazzar's palace to deliver a
sentence of doom
C. When Jesus Christ stooped down to
write in the dust after they brought him
the woman taken in adultery
THEME:
The Bible provides us direction to
perfection, and it does that by
______________________.
THE IDEOLOGY OF OUR THEOLOGY
1. There are two __________ that are outwardly similar, but produce
different fruits and results

2. Because there are two seeds, they produced two different
__________: Received and Eclectic

3. Because there are two texts, it resulted in two __________ of Bibles:
Reformed and Revised


Great Revolutions Based on
New Discoveries in the 1800s
A revolution in politics called
socialismFAILED
A revolution in science called
evolutionFRAUD
A revolution in psychology
called psychoanalysisFREUD
A revolution in religion called
textual criticismFLAWED
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A Plan for Growing as a Bible
Student
1. Prepare spiritually, Psalm
119:15-16
2. Work systematically
3. Scan the plan, but be passage
oriented
4. Think biographically
5. Become a concordance user
6. Utilize center-column
references
7. Trace the types through the
Bible
8. Do word studies on specic
terms
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Next week: the evidence &
the alternatives.
TWO SEEDS
GODS WORD SAYS MANS WAY SAYS
Salvation Is by atonement Salvation Is by attainment
It is based on divine mercy It is based on human merit
You need a new heart You only need a new start
It is all done You still have to do
Be enveloped in Christs character Develop a better character
God worked his way to you You must work your way to God
TWO NT GREEK TEXTS
THE TRADITIONAL RECEIVED TEXT THE MODERN ECLECTIC TEXT
City: Antioch in Syria City: Alexandria in Egypt
A Majority of Texts A Minority of Texts
95+% of all existing MSS <5% of all existing MSS
Located in the Byzantine Church Lost by the Western Church
Written by Great Apostles Revised by Gnostic Apostates
Unintentional Scribal Errors Intentional Heretical Corruptions
Printed in the Reformation Presented in the 1880s
Based on Believers Assumptions Based on Unbelieving Approach
Providentially Preserved Text A Lately Discovered Text

TWO LINES OF BIBLES
REFORMED REVISED
Masoretic Hebrew OT Text OT corrected by Greek LXX
God-Preserved Apostolic Texts Man-Made Altered Texts
Erasmus-Staphanus-Beza-Elzevir Westcott & Hort-Nestle & Aland-
Metzger & United Bible Societies
NT Greek Received Text Modern NT Greek Eclectic Text
Handed Down through History Recently Discovered
Apocrypha Treated as Information Apocrypha Treated as Inspired
Literal Translation From Essentially Literal to
Paraphrased
Settled and Certain Readings Uncertain & Changing Readings
KJV NIV, etc.
Thesis:
The Reformation led
to the discovery of
biblical
__________________,
so that Gods
revelation could go
through translation
and give a new
generation Gods
inspiration.