If you are saying that God did not preserve his word, then it is you who must be on the defensive. The word of God has been preserved by God. Period.
We have God's name, which has been preserved for us, do we not? Surely God's word would have been preserved even if it had to have been preserved by a talking jackass.
You want proof? Here's your proof:
...thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalms 138:2 KJV)
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11 KJV)
God's Word IS JESUS CHRIST! Christ's teachings were preserved by the Holy Spirit guiding the Apostles. I never said He didn't preserve His Word. Your job is to prove that the BIBLE is God's Word that He preserved, from internal evidence alone. Period.
We have God's name, which has been preserved for us, do we not? Surely God's word would have been preserved even if it had to have been preserved by a talking jackass.
Again, you aren't going to be able to prove much from internal evidence of the bible alone. You are going to need an external community that can vouch for the bible itself. Anyone can write something and call it "God's word" and "God's name". As to the talking jackass, what can I say? Are you saying that no one else can write such a story?
You will not be able to prove that the Scripture is God's Word based on the Book alone. That is my sole point. I am certainly not saying the Bible is not the Word of God. We base our idea that the Bible is God's Word on the proclamation of the Church.
...thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
That proves the Bible is God's Word? You are arguing in a circle. "this book is the word of God because the word found in this book says so."
Do you use that same argument with the Mormons? Muslims?
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