This volume considers the question, “What is the eschatological future of the Bible?” by way of fresh, optimistic exploration of the Scripture. For instance, “Is Scripture incinerated with the re-formation of the New Heaven and Earth?” Or “Does forever mean forever in every case except when applied to Scripture?” The focus of this volume isContinue reading “An Eschatological Grounding For A Standard Sacred Text”
Author Archives: Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr.
Canonicity: Why the Bible Has 66 Books
A new Study Guide entitled, Canonicity: Why the Bible Has 66 Books, prepared by Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr., is now available at Amazon Books. Designed as Sunday School curriculum for High School through all adult classes, seminars, and family devotions, the Study Guide builds a strong, historically proven, theological case for the collation ofContinue reading “Canonicity: Why the Bible Has 66 Books”
Gilbert Tennet, 1744, “5 Qualities of Scripture’s Canonicity”
Where is Dr. Ward’s Ph.D. level response to Psalm 12:6-7?
By What Standard Are You Worshipping God in an Acceptable Manner?
Scripture Endures Forever
What are we as Christians to make of these passages? Are we to disregard them as oriental hyperbole, or a literary device, or a contextually limited application? Or are we to accept the clear and conspicuous, historically anchored meaning of “forever”? To reject the truth of Scripture’s “foreverness” presents the need to reinterpret the passagesContinue reading “Scripture Endures Forever”
The Department of Education, Big Pharma, and Bible Publishers
Riding home from a family visit, we were listening to the radio and a commentor’s observation on the existence of the Department of Education. He scoffed at the notion that the DOE functioned to educate children. In summary, he concluded that the education of children was not the department’s purpose because well-educated children would giveContinue reading “The Department of Education, Big Pharma, and Bible Publishers”
Why Do Christians Defend the Bible in the Same Manner as Unbelievers?
Why Do Christians Defend the Bible Like the Unbeliever?
Why do Christians defend their Bible in a manner similar to the unbeliever? Instead of asserting the Bible as infallible and the preserved Word of God, contemporary apologetics often begins with Christians on the defensive. The apologist typically counteracts the critic’s evidential defeaters using a similar set of evidential arguments, leading to a back-and-forth ofContinue reading “Why Do Christians Defend the Bible Like the Unbeliever?”
It’s 2025: Where is Dr. Ward on Psalm 12:6-7
Looking through the archived posts of Standard Sacred Text you will find several articles relating to Psalm 12:6-7, verbal preservation, historic churchly and academic exegetical support for the rendering and Dr. Mark Ward’s strong objection to the passage referring to the verbal preservation of Scripture. For Ward, the notion that any self-attesting witnesses to theContinue reading “It’s 2025: Where is Dr. Ward on Psalm 12:6-7”