AMEN!!!!! Peace, Steve David Warner wrote: >Purified Seven Times >by Henry Morris, Ph.D. > >"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" (Psalm 12:6-7). > >The preservation of the divinely given words of Scripture is incomparably >superior to that of all other ancient writings. God has not allowed any of >His words to "pass away," for Jesus said: "Heaven and earth shall pass >away, but my words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35). They are, in >fact, "For ever . . . settled in heaven" (Psalm 119:89). > >Although all the original "autographs" of Moses, Paul, and the other human >writers have long vanished from the earth (perhaps they have even been >translated to heaven, with the ark of the covenant -- note Revelation >11:19), God saw to it that dedicated Hebrew scribes and Christian scholars >meticulously copied and recopied the writings through the centuries, so >that we still have God's Word to guide us today. Although there are >variant readings in different manuscripts, the original words are there >somewhere. Very few real questions remain about any of these, so we have >the original Greek and Hebrew words to a high degree of accuracy. > >Furthermore, the fires of: (1) anti-Christian persecution; (2) caviling >humanistic philosophies; (3) literary criticism; (4) scientific >skepticism; (5) pagan pantheism; (6) cultic distortions; and (7) apathetic >indifference, have again and again sought to destroy God's Word, but all >have failed. Not only is it the best seller of all time, but also >translated into more languages than any other writings. > >No matter what forces are directed against it, it always emerges brighter >and surer than ever! Even this present generation will fail in all modern >attempts to defeat the Holy Scriptures, for God will "preserve them from >this generation for ever." HMM > >-- >To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: pastorsforum-unsubscribe@... > >"In essential things, unity; in non-essential things, liberty; and in all things, charity." > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pastor Steven G. Rockhill Lisbon Reformed Presbyterian Church PO Box 88 Lisbon, NY 13658 315-393-9041 revrock@... http://lisbonrpc.port5.com http://firmfooting.blogspot.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++