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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS................................................................................................
V
I. PRESERVATION OR RESTORATION?.........................................................1
THE
KEY ISSUE - PRESERVATION...................................................................1
SCRIPTURAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS STUDY.........................................4
THE ISSUE - JUST WHAT IS AT STAKE?.........................................................5
THE ORIGINAL "AUTOGRAPHS" AND "PRESERVATION"..........................6
WHAT DOES GOD PROMISE CONCERNING THE SCRIPTURES?...............8
GOD'S METHOD OF PRESERVING THE SCRIPTURES................................10
WOLVES PARADING AS SHEEP.....................................................................13
WHEN DID THE WOLVES BEGIN TO DEVOUR THE WORD?....................13
BEWARE - "A LITTLE LEAVEN ...".................................................................14
NOT AN "AD HOMINEM".................................................................................15
THE GREEK STRONGHOLD............................................................................16
II. BIBLICAL COMPARISONS DEPICTING THE PROBLEM...................21
C
OLOSSIANS
1:14..................................................................................................21
F
IRST
T
IMOTHY
3:16.............................................................................................21
I
SAIAH
7:14...........................................................................................................22
Z
ECHARIAH
9:9......................................................................................................24
M
ATTHEW
1:25......................................................................................................24
M
ATTHEW
4:10 (9:18; 20:20; M
K
.5:6; L
K
.24:52).................................................24
M
ATTHEW
6:13......................................................................................................26
M
ATTHEW
19:17....................................................................................................27
M
ARK
1:2-3...........................................................................................................28
M
ARK
9:43-44.......................................................................................................29
M
ARK
10:21..........................................................................................................29
M
ARK
16:9-20.......................................................................................................30
L
UKE
1:34.............................................................................................................32
L
UKE
2:14.............................................................................................................32
L
UKE
2:33.............................................................................................................33
L
UKE
4:4...............................................................................................................33
L
UKE
9:54-56........................................................................................................34
L
UKE
22:64............................................................................................................34
L
UKE
23:38............................................................................................................35
L
UKE
23:42............................................................................................................35
L
UKE
24:6.............................................................................................................35
L
UKE
24:42............................................................................................................35
J
OHN
1:18..............................................................................................................36
J
OHN
3:36..............................................................................................................38
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