Covenant Reformed News – September 2003, Volume IX, Issue 17
This article defends the doctrine of God's special providential preservation of Scripture against liberal Protestant, Muslim, and textual critical objections, grounding the argument in Matthew 24:35 and the Westminster Confession. The author demonstrates how God maintained the integrity of the biblical text through Jewish custodianship and scribal care, acknowledging minor transmissional errors while affirming that the correct readings remain recoverable from existing manuscripts.
Christ’s Words Shall Never Pass Away (3) Christ’s words, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35), are a divine promise of the preservation of the entire Scriptures up to (and beyond) Christ’s second coming. This text leads us to believe that God has providentially maintained His Word for over 3,000 years and will continue to do so. The Westminster Confession states that the OT in Hebrew and the NT in Greek “being immediately inspired by God, and by...