Purified Seven Times

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Purified seven times. The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Psalm twelve, six through seven.

The preservation of the divinely given words of Scripture is incomparably superior to that of all other ancient writings. God has not allowed any of his words to pass away, for Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. They are, in fact, forever settled in heaven. Although the original autographs of Moses, Paul, and the other human writers have long vanished, God saw to it that dedicated Hebrew scribes and Christian scholars meticulously copied the writings through the centuries so that we still have God's word to guide us today. Although there are variant readings in different manuscripts, the original words are there somewhere.

Very few real questions remain about any of these, so we have the original Greek and Hebrew words to a high degree of accuracy. The fires of anti-Christian persecution, cavalrying humanistic philosophies, literary criticism, scientific skepticism, pagan pantheism, cultic distortions, and apathetic indifference have sought to destroy God's Word, but all have failed. it is the bestseller of all time, translated into more languages than any other work. No matter what forces are directed against it, it always emerges brighter and surer than ever. Even this present generation will fail in all modern attempts to defeat the Holy Scriptures, for God will preserve them from this generation forever.

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