What are the "original languages"? The good dean of FEBC asked.
His reply: They are the Hebrew and Aramaic words of the Old Testament Scripture, and the Greek words of the New Testament Scripture.
Then he asked: Where does Article 4.2.1 of the B-P Constitution say that the infallible and inerrant Scriptures are only in the autographs?
His reply: Nowhere! Nowhere! Nowhere!
BTW, every time a person answers his own question, you know he's going to be right no matter what. Did not Solomon tell us that "the way of a fool is right in his own eyes?"
Read 4.2.1 carefully, lah. "We believe in the divine, verbal and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures in the original languages, their consequent inerrancy and infallibility, and as the Word of God, the Supreme and final authority in faith and life."
The meaning of Article 4.2.1 is this -- the Scriptures, in the original languages, are verbally and plenarily inspired, and as a consequence of their verbal and plenary inspiration, they are inerrant and infallible.
Question: What Scriptures in the original languages are inspired and consequently inerrant and infallible?
Answer: Only the autographs
But the good dean tries to pull a fast one, and so he says, lah: if there's nowhere in Article 4.2.1 that says that the "original languages" refer to the autographs, then the "original languages" must not only refer autographs but also the apographs.
And the dean wants this underscored. Well, he can double-, triple-, quadruple-, multiple-scored it for all he wants.
But there's one big difference: inspiration. The original languages of the autographs were immediately and divinely inspired. The original languages of the apographs were not immediately and divinely inspired. As a matter of fact, the apographs were not inspired at all.
