Do we have 100% of the Word of God today or only 98%?
Has the Word of God been preserved down through the ages as the WCF states which the Reformed taught throughout the 16th-18th centuries or has it been more or less preserved as the modern textual critics teach today?
Are the Scriptures broken or intact?
John Owen:
"Surely the promise of God for the preservation of his word, with his love and care of his church, of whose faith and obedience that word of his is the only rule, requires other thoughts at our hands. We add that the whole scripture entire, as given out from God, without any loss, is preserved in the Copies of the Originals yet remaining; What varieties there are among the Copies themselves shall be afterwards declared; in them all, we say, is every letter and Tittle of the Word. These Copies we say, are the Rule, standard and touch-stone of all Translations ancient or modern, by which they are in all things to be examined, tried, corrected, amended, and themselves only by themselves." |
