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exist. We mean their apographs which are so called because they set forthto us the word of God in the very words of those who wrote under theimmediate inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” Turretin was no ordinarytheologian. His Systematic Theology textbook was used in PrincetonSeminary until Warfield came into the scene with his new and radical“autographal” view of the original text which opened the door to liberaltextual criticism that has spawned a whole new generation of critical textsand modern perversions of the Scriptures that seek to displace the timetestedand time-honoured TR and KJV. [See chart “The Entrance of theLeaven of Textual Criticism into Fundamentalism” on the next page.](23) What does the Westminster Confession of Faith mean bythe words, “kept pure in all ages”?Here is an answer from Prof William F Orr of PittsburghTheological Seminary: “this affirms that the Hebrew text of the OldTestament and the Greek of the New which was known to theWestminster divines was immediately inspired by God because it wasidentical with the first text that God had kept pure in all the ages. Theidea that there are mistakes in the Hebrew Masoretic texts or in the TextusReceptus of the New Testament was unknown to the authors of theConfession of Faith.”G I Williamson likewise did write to this effect in his commentaryon the Westminster Confession, “This brings us to the matter of God’s‘singular care and providence’ by which He has ‘kept pure in all ages’this original text, so that we now actually possess it in ‘authentical’ form.And let us begin by giving an illustration from modern life to show thatan original document may be destroyed, without the text of that documentbeing lost. Suppose you were to write a will. Then suppose you were tohave a photographic copy of that will made. If the original were thendestroyed, the photographic copy would still preserve the text of that willexactly the same as the original itself. The text of the copy would differ inno way whatever from the original, and so it would possess exactly thesame ‘truth’ and meaning as the original. Now of course photography wasnot invented until long after the original copy … had been worn out orlost. How then could the original text of the Word of God be preserved?The answer is that God preserved it by His own remarkable care andprovidence.”QUESTIONS ABOUT INSPIRATION AND PRESERVATION23