This is from Bryan Chapell in "Christ Centered Preaching" which has been a good read. But I don't understand his paradigm here:
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Pg. 64 The Holy Spirit's divine inspiration and providential preservation of Scripture is a continuing miracle of God's spiritual care of our souls. A good study Bible prepared by scholars who accept the Bible's full authority will give preachers ample warning of a questionable text and will grant us the confidence that we are preaching in accord with the Spirit's imprimatur.
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Do textual variants give us confidence in the Spirit's inspiration of Scripture? If so, how? To my simple brain it would seem the other way around.
Earlier in the paragraph he wrote:
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We can keep the people to whom we preach confident of the Bible's authority by reminding them how rare such questions are...
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Is he saying that if there were no variants that it would tear down at the authority of the Bible? How so?
