God promised us that He will teach us doctrine Himself if we believe His words above all others. So His words surely are worth having. But this would be an empty promise if He did not preserve His words for us. Indeed, He has promised that they will be available forever. With God’s help we can surely identify those words.
Scholars deny that there are infallible words.
Scholars have denied that God’s infallible words are available. By defining inspiration in such a way that it can only apply to original autographs of Scripture, they affirm that will be no Scripture, written words of God, available to man until those original autographs can be found and/or reproduced. Although there are multitudes of manuscripts of Scripture available, they do not fully agree with each other. So the scholars argue we can only approximately know God’s infallible words. Which means we must believe the words of scholars to tell us what words we can believe, and which are uncertain. Words derived in this way are certainly not what God has promised us.
Witnesses to God’s words
There is nothing in the manuscripts we have that indicates that piecing together original autographs is the appropriate way to identify God’s infallible words. Jesus Christ, who is called the Word of God Himself, told those demanding to know who He was that according to their Scriptures the truth of a matter could be determined by two or three witnesses. So in these slides, Identifying the Words of God, we will use two witnesses to identify the true words of God. Then we will trust God to teach us doctrine through those words.