Inspiration, Infallibility, and Inerrancy: Hath God Said? with R.C. Sproul 

This message is from R.C. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Hath God Said? Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/hath-god-said

R.C, even today, being in heaven, you are teaching me the word of the LORD with unparalleled tones. What a living legacy you left to us! Again, Rest in eternal peace!

An honor for me, to be listening to RC still in 2021. He enriches my religious concepts in every excellent sermon

Pastor R.C. was such a gifted teacher. I greatly respect and continue to be blown away by his knowledge on the Bible and biblical doctrine.

Thanks R. C. Sproul *4 This Powerful, Blessful, Deep Sermon of "Infallibility, Inerrancy & Inerrancy; Hath God Said ?" Where I Say Just As R. C. Sproul That The Bible Is The Inspiration of Our Great Almighty God 4 The Scripture Is Given By The Inspiration of God; & Is Profitable 4 Doctrine, 4 Correction & 4 Inspiration In Righteousness Written In 2nd Timothy 3:16 4 God's Word Is God Talking 2 Us Thru The 66 Books of The Bible In 39 From The Old Testament & 27 From The New Testament* & May Our Great Almighty God Bless Yu Late R. C. Sproul 4 Yu are Dearly Missed & Ligonier Ministries So Very Much.🙏🙏

True and Trustworthy is He AMEN

I am so thankful for these video records. Sadly I was only introduced to R.C. Sproul after his passing, what a great teacher.

This is absolutely excellent.

Amen. As a Catholic I greatly appreciated the clarity of the definition. Folks tend to get me on my heels when they attack scripture as errant since it was written by fallible men. This talk helped me to prepare a clear response. So, again, amen and thank you.

Well said...best theological explanation in simple terms. R.C. Sproul is great 👍👍👍

Thankful that these videos are available for us all to see.

I love Dr. Sproul. I hate that he fell victim to '80s perms, however.

To have been able to sit in the audience to this great man of Christ… The legacy and ministry he paved the way for, that God so uses to teach and equip the body of Christ, has been such a great tool for me in my growth as a Christian in the last couple years.

His penmanship is as legible as inerrancy is logical.

RC always inspires me with the Lord's word

R.C is a blessing

Great teaching

Inspiration- THE WORD OF GOD Infallibility- THE WORD OF GOD INERRANCY- THE WORD OF GOD

Yeah when you're pondering the thought in it all comes to you in this total understanding where you could explain it see it perfectly with the proper words and everything. As if you knew it all along

You’ll find no better explanation of Biblical infallibility and inerrancy than that here by RC Sproul. Or of Shibboleth for that matter.

Appreciate Sproul. Also he had great hair back then

Could I have a copy of this commentary on the document of affirmations and denials. Thank you.

“ The word of the wise are like goads ( prodding)… but beyond this ( going further than the Word of the Almighty) my son be warned: the writing of many books is endless and excessive STUDY and DEVOTION TO BOOKS IS WEARYING TO THE BODY.” Ecclesiastes 12:11-12✝️

Rc sproul. Solid. 🙂✝️☮

RC Sproul was an outstanding lecturer, this is all very interesting, but I hoped he would say something about how inspiration works. Because if God does not dictate, how are you sure that what the authors of the Biblical books wrote are God's word? When the books of the Old Testament were written, there was no Bible yet, when Paul wrote his letters, there was no New Testament yet. How do you determine that these writings - and only these writings - are inspired and inerrant, when different churches have different canon? Then what about the clear contradictions between books of the Bible? E.g. the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke. Was Jesus born when Herod still lived, or later, when Cyrinus was governor of Syria? Were Joseph and Mary living in Bethlehem, and fled to Egypt before settling in Narareth as Matthew relates, or were they living in Nazareth who only visited Bethlehem because of a census, and after presenting Jesus in the temple returned to Nazareth? Was Jesus crucified on Easter day, as Mark says, or the day before Easter as John says. How do you reconcile these contradictions with the concept of inspiration and inerrancy? This lecture does not answer these questions.

I would love that little booklet. I can’t find it online though.

So which Bible is in focus here? 🤔

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. 1CORINTHIANS 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

What is the chief end of man ? Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Seek Christ Jesus the Redeemer

2 Timothy 3:16-17

The doctrine claiming that the Bible is the perfect, complete and inerrant word of God is extra-biblical. By what authority is the doctrine of the Bible’s inerrancy declared?

I have a silk scarf that matches that tie perfectly.

If we rearrange R.C. Sproul's words, we arrive at a definition closer to the truth: "Divine inspiration is the term later men attach to a previous human author's activity, when those later men require a vehicle to enable them to set forth a divine and supernatural origin for the human author's words." There only appear to be stars farther than 6,000 years old, according to Young Earth Creationists. Their starlight is real but the parent star is only a fiction in the sky. Likewise, the authors and the writings of the Bible are real, but the divine inspiration behind them is just a fiction that later men placed in their own imaginations.

Revival🙏22

The answer to “why does God allow sin” , is He Doesn’t!!! All sin was accounted for on the Cross for those who believe. (The mystery of salvation) Pray for understanding then pray some more. Then after that pray again. Do you get the point. Jesus (ABBA, Daddy, Papa…) loves us!!! Talk to Him. Your life depends on it. The pulpits don’t save. Only your Faith will save. It is written…🙏🔑✌️

Scientifically, Genesis is accurate. Is he saying it is not? I just need understanding of context.

He sounds so much like gershner in this

Wow! He had some kind of delivery when he was younger, didn't he,

​@MaingiGeorge You have no idea what scrolls Timothy and the early christians of "the way" were using (and by the way, the sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls were called "the way" as well as the early christian church) and all scripture being God-breathed is not the same as saying every word on the page is inerrant and infallible, nor does it change the fact that different people interpret it differently. I can just as easily throw the line about dead letter that St Paul uses about the law in Corinthians unless the spirit is coming with power. 2 Corinthians 3:6 (KJ21) "who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament - not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life". Interpretation is the biggest problem and you need the Spirit to effectively interpret. What McCarthy does is read it all literally like Rabbi Tovia Singer does with a different slant because Rabbi Tovia hates Jesus and likes to highlight every inconsistency in the NT, and he knows the NT very well. McCarthy is wrong!

If it’s not “my words in her pen” then why do you call the Bible “God’s Word”?

Sproul has knowingly misled his audience about the meaning of "infallibility." It means that the biblical texts, despite their flaws and limitations, will "unerringly convey" divine truth to the spiritually-prepared reader. Infallibility insists that God safeguards the complete divinely-guided process of inspiration/writing of texts/hearing or reading/comprehension or conviction. Inerrancy refers to the texts themselves and is easily refuted, both as a logical concept, a practical possibility, and an actual historical fact. God did not safeguard the texts, either originally or as we have them now.

What does God want skeptics to do, who notice that conservative Trinitarian Christian scholars cannot even agree on bible inerrancy and many others find it a waste of time to discuss? Does God want us spiritually dead skeptics to "figure out" which camp is "right" about such spiritual truth? LOL

Why 66 books? What about the other 14?

The Bible itself says it may not be inerrant. If anyone add or deletes to the Biblical text their judgement will be increased. So the Bible itself admits people may have/could have changed the text.

Were the biblical authors capable of authentically loving God WHILE God was allegedly successfully preventing them from erring? If so, then why doesn't God impose on the rest of humanity this magical influence whereby they can't err, but but but...they are still capable of authentically loving him? In other words, conditions necessitated by biblical inerrancy refute the popular retort that "God doesn't prevent us from erring because that would take away our freewill, and we need freewill to authentically love god". That's false. Apparently, under conditions necessitated by biblical inerrancy, God IS capable of rendering you incapable of erring while preserving your ability to authentically love him. NOW what is so unreasonable in the skeptic who says God has no excuse for allowing evil, because we know from the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that God CAN and actually DID preserve a creature's ability to authentically love him while simultaneously infallibly preventing them from erring, is actually achievable in this present fallen world?

Biblical inerrancy is just at useless doctrine, because it is not the Bible that is the truth, the way and the life. It is Jesus. If you do not know Jesus you will never find truth in the Bible. Many theologians love scripture more than they love God and their neighbours and because of that they do not know Jesus. Do not follow priests or theologians only follow our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God.

How can the Bible be infallible and inerrant? God says Gen 6:6 6And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth, and He became grieved in His heart. God thought he had made a mistake! If God might make a mistake then there could be errors in the Bible. Either God is not infallible because he makes mistakes and therefore neither is the Bible infallible or the Bible is ERRANT at Gen 6:6! Also when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found they found there was a whole verse missing from the Masoretic text from one of the books. The text makes more sense with this verse included. They think the scribe got distracted at some point and when he got back to scribing the text, he jumped accidentally to the same word but in the next verse missing out a whole passage. So the Bible is not inerrant. If there is inerrancy then it can only be the Word of God which is inerrant which may or may not be written down correctly in the Bible. On top of that the Bible has many interpretations snd translations. Jews and Christians can be markedly different in their translations and interpretations of the Old Testament. So it is not safe to call the Bible inerrant and infallible. There was no canon when Jesus was on the earth and protestants have a different Canon to the Catholics. They removed the Apocrypha because they did not have an early enough copy. Therefore they said the apocrpha was not to be included in the canon. The trouble is most of this apocrypha was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Hebrew or Aramaic. Therefore tje Catholic Canon was right. Only people who have never experienced the Holy Spirit with power could rely so totally and heavily on the Bible and yet the Bible would not exist without the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. John MaCarthy criticises the Charismatics about their experiences of the Holy Spirit but these experiences are Biblical. Look at 1 Kings 8:11 the priests in the temple could not stand up to minister to the people because the glory cloud was so powerful and filled the temple.

Why people think this guy is so brilliant? At 14:40, another evidence he is/was not!

You think I AM is cult belief when theology preaching secular history is false for centuries nothing new under the sun. You all were sons of God like allegory Jesus was teaching, Paul hinted it! Phil 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: You can't believe it yet.

It is innerant but not infalable

“Several hundred years”? Even R.C. Is fallible lol😊

He does explain the difference of the words well, however most people don't understand the differences. Which is why I so boldly exclaim INSPIRED. Even the great apostle Paul was biblically weak when it came to women, I have biblical proof of that. But we have been breaking God's very first commandment. We have exalted the bible to the level of an idol

You are not a Christian it you do not believe in inerrancy.. R.C. Sproul.was obsessed with unbelievers and their totally irrelevant views. Colossians 2;8

Guy doesn't even believe he has God's word. Foolish for a Christian. But he uses perversions of God's word. Most do. I have God's word. Perfect and complete . Bible correctors are mentioned in my Bible. They are called unbelieving.

Being true to Christian dogma.......YUCK!

Unfortunately RC was a Calvinist who believed in and taught a false Calvinist gospel...

The Quran is infallible too! May Allah bless you!