Author Archives: Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr.

We will be beginning a 10 week study of passages dealing with Scripture’s providential preservation. To inaugurate the series, this Tuesday we will be considering elements that make exegesis and theology a distinctly Christian discipline including a glossary of words that will be used throughout the study. For those who want to read ahead, theContinue reading “Lecture Series 2 Starting Next Tuesday 1/24 @7:30”

The most recent critically based “better” version fails the Church because: So let’s say we capitalize the pronouns referring to Deity, add some italics, and change the name of God by transliteration and not translation in the new version. Are we to gather because this the “better” version that all other versions in the MVOContinue reading “Why the Most Recent Critically Based “Better” Version Fails the Church”

“Another Argument of the Divinity of the Scripture is their almost miraculous Preservation for so long a tract of Time, notwithstanding the rage of numerous, powerful and political Opposers, while many other esteemed composures, which never met with such opposition, have long since perished. Antiochus Epiphanes, in the days of the Maccabees, made diligent searchContinue reading “Gilbert Tennet, 1744, and The Effects of Scripture Surpassing the Force of Nature”

Is Evangelical Textual Criticism Compatible with the Traditional American Christmas? The answer must be no, and for the following three reasons: While White pusillanimously failed to answer the question posed by both Dr. Van Kleeck and Dr. Riddle as to whether any portion of Scripture is open to question or change based on manuscript evidence,Continue reading “Is Evangelical Textual Criticism Compatible with the Traditional American Christmas?”

Here at Standardsacredtext, we make the case that the Scripture has always been read by the Church in “autographic terms,” that the extant Scriptures were considered to be the quod res, doctrina substantia of the Original. In the short excerpt that follows Samuel Trickett in 1656 writes of his English translation in terms of theContinue reading ““The word of God is the direction whereby we may square all our thoughts, words, and deeds””

The interaction of the angel with the shepherds was so engrained in the hearts and minds of the early church that Luke wrote that his record was “most surely believed,” that he had “perfect understanding,” from which Theophilus and subsequent readers might know “the certainty of those things.” If it was not God Himself whoContinue reading “Christmas, providential preservation, and certainty”

Turning to the familiar passage describing the circumstances surround the birth of Jesus Christ in Luke 2, we want to examine the role the shepherds played in relaying an inspired message to those within their sphere of influence and especially the trust God placed in them. Our first observation is that the shepherds represent theContinue reading “The Christmas Story and a Biblical Paradigm for Manuscript Transmission”

Standardsacredtext.com has embarked on the next phase of Bible defense with the introduction of the live Tuesday night lectures. After publishing three “Grounding” volumes and “Then He Poked the Bear,” this venue gives insights into the authors’ thoughts, research, and rationale behind the writing. Now approaching 600 posts, we receive feedback indicative of the deepContinue reading “Join us for the Tuesday Night Lecture Series”

Thesis 5: The argument to the effect that what the majority of believes in the history of the church have believed is true, is ambiguous at best and theologically dangerous at worst; and as applied to textual criticism, the argument proves nothing very helpful anyway. I will point the reader to the following passages: TheContinue reading “D. A. Carson and let’s leave the church out of it.”

Thesis 4: The Alexandrian text type has better credentials than any other text type now available. Quite a dogmatic statement, don’t you think, especially when you consider that Thesis 4 includes the adjective, “better.” On what grounds can Carson say that the Alexandrian text type has “better” credentials than the other 5,100 extant manuscripts? Well,Continue reading “Dr. D.A. Carson, the dating of P75, and more pleading for party orthodoxy”