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I know this won't be much of a satisfactory answer, but Greg Bahnsen once asked the question, "How do you know they aren't?"
The idea is that since we don't have the autographs, there is no emperical evidence either way. Doubting the inerrancy (or accepting it) rather is an a priori belief and is not going to be proven or disproven by human means and methods.
"...so the claim of Inerrancy regarding the Original Manuscripts is probably beyond any possible proof..."
I understand but if the quote is true then your conviction derived from Scripture could be wrong since we can't know the original mss were inerrant, or am I missing something?
If we believe that the originals, which were breathed out by God, were in error then we would be saying something about the character of God since He was the one that breathed them out.
So my conviction of the inerrant originals comes from my understanding of God's character.
That's what I was thinking! lol
At some point, one simply is forced to acknowledge "I am creature."
We have limits, we are fallible, even without sin we're fallible. I don't even need the Bible to tell me that. Unless I'm persuaded that I'm god, that I really can be like the religious positivists out there, of the Christian Scientists, etc.
It's a package deal, my friends. And part of that package is accepting by faith that God can communicate to us reliably. If you have to go "empirical", I suppose you can put all the other truth claims out there to the test, and choose the one you think is "best". Oh well, bummer that, knowing you can't ever be sure about your own choice either.
Or you accept the self-referential nature of Scripture. You accept that it's the Spirit's witness that is the summum bonum, not my individual experience. Everybody in the world hears "God" talking someplace. So where's it going to be for you?
The Spirit testifies to the veracity of the Word - as originally delivered and sustained through the ages for God's people.