Now, Jesus walked in this room tonight, ladies and gentlemen, said, look, that book is

inspired by God, the Holy Spirit. It is the Word of my Father, my Father, never earth.

It is altogether infallible, altogether inherent. Would you be convinced? I can't imagine

anybody then standing up and say, oh, surely Jesus, though I receive you as the Lord of

my life and the Lord of the church. I must immer on this point. And I have to correct

you, you've bought into an outmoded, unsophisticated view of Scripture. Well, beloved strangers,

it may seem. That is exactly what has happened and is continuing to happen in the church.

In the debates among scholars surrounding the Bible, is it truly the Word of God? Does

it contain any errors? We must ask the question, what did Jesus teach about the Bible? And as

you'll hear today, to disagree with Jesus in this matter is to call into question whether

he really is the savior of sinners. You're listening to renewing your mind as we conclude

this week-long study on the authority of the Bible. So far, we've considered the authority

and source of the Bible, how the 27 books of the New Testament were collected, and what

it means that the Bible is the inspired, infallible, and an errant Word of God. Well, today

R.C. Sproul turns to the words of Jesus, his views on Scripture and the tragic outcome

if we believe anything less than what Jesus believed. He is Dr. Sproul.

In our last session on our study of the authority of Scripture, I made reference to the historic

convention that took place in 1978 where a group of international scholars came together

for a summit meeting to give definition to the classical expression of the inerrancy

of the Bible. A few years prior to that event, Ligonier, Ligonier Ministries, sponsored

a much smaller conference on the same subject in Western Pennsylvania, where six or seven

scholars from around the world were gathered to address the same issue concerning the

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