KJV Questions and Answers - Far Eastern Bible College

y the Holy Spirit and Jesus, while He was here, said that the Father hadsent Him and had given Him the words which He had delivered to man.Jesus was explicit when He said, ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away; butmy words shall not pass away.’ The penalty pronounced on adding to ortaking from the Scriptures was severe judgement from God Himself. … Itis this Bible that has brought into existence the ICCC. It is through thisBible that the Holy Spirit has given the faith to the leaders who haveestablished this Council and has helped them maintain a sure and clearwitness to the Bible’s full truthfulness. It is this Bible and its record ofpast prophecies that have been seen to be fulfilled in the smallest level,and every Word of God is true. … Nothing that the archaeologists havediscovered and will discover will contradict this Book. … This HolyBook is the work of our righteous God in making possible the onlysalvation that exists and in bringing men and women through thepreaching of the Word in all its ‘foolishness’ into God’s everlastingkingdom. The ICCC reaffirms all the statements carefully and prayerfullyworked out …, all of which are based squarely on this holy andPERFECT record which came from heaven, of which God is the Authorand that indeed is why it is called the Word of God.”Note that the ICCC statement affirms the preservation of “everyword” to the “smallest” detail, and that the Bible is “perfect” and thus“fully” truthful. If God is powerful enough to inspire His Word to the jotand tittle without error, surely He is powerful enough to preserve all ofHis inspired words so that today His people can say they have the verysame inspired words the Apostles and Prophets had! Surely, we have a100% Scripture today!(42) Did God give us one Bible only?Yes, God inspired and preserved only one Bible. The InternationalCouncil of Christian Churches (ICCC) 16 th World Congress, Jerusalem2000, Statement #11 affirms this: “Believing God safeguarded the Biblein times past and will continue to do so in the future and all eternity. Hepreserved ONE Holy Scripture, the Bible. ‘Heaven and earth shall passaway but my words shall not pass away;’ Matthew 24:35. Believing theO.T. has been preserved in the Masoretic text and the N.T in the TextusReceptus, combined they gave us the complete Word of God.”QUESTIONS ABOUT INSPIRATION AND PRESERVATION37