Category Archives: Contra

For most of our readership you know about the term False Friends. This is a term co-opted by Mark Ward which is usually used in the context of comparing foreign languages. Still, Ward thought it best to bring the term into a comparison of English with English. We understand the rhetorical play here in thatContinue reading “False Friends and the Critical Text”

The above image is a perfect example of why the Multiple Version Only approach is a failure and why we here at Standard Sacred Text cannot advocate for that position. The difference between the two measuring tapes is 3/16ths, a very minor difference. Certainly no major measurement is at stake for something so small, right?Continue reading “This Is Why We Don’t Trust Modern Version Onlyism”

Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center directed by George Barna released its findings of the American Worldview Inventory 2022 and had 6 distinct releases. It was broken into two parts, the first regrading parents and the second regarding pastors. In both cases the conclusions where at best discouraging. Regarding parents of pre-teens, the study found,Continue reading “American Worldview Inventory 2022 – A National Worldview Study of Parents and Pastors”

“Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” I Corinthians 1:10 Man has often attempted to reach God, to be God and toContinue reading “Speak the Same Thing: The Tower of Babel in 21st Century American Churches”

What could be less then to afford him praise,The easiest recompence, and pay him thanks,How due! yet all his good prov’d ill in me,And wrought but malice; lifted up so highI sdeind subjection, and thought one step higherWould set me highest, and in a moment quitThe debt immense of endless gratitude,So burthensome, still paying, stillContinue reading “Deathworks, Forgetfulness, and Modern Textual Scholarship”

“And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS…Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The king of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have writtenContinue reading “What I Have Written I Have Written”

“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leavenContinue reading “A Little Leaven”

We hear over and over from CT/MVO academicians that modern versions are “sufficiently reliable.” When pressed on the meaning of that term it seems that they mean something like, “It is possible to be saved out of many of the modern translations” or “The general gist of all major Christian doctrine is present in mostContinue reading “Necessity, Sufficiency, and the Cursed Fig Tree”

I came across a recent article by a New Testament scholar, Christ Keith, who made the following observations, “Those of us who cherish biblical texts on some level or another also need to exercise the important and necessary right to disagree with the text.” Indeed, the freedom to disagree with the text is almost necessaryContinue reading “Modern Textual Criticism: A Deathwork (Part 2)”

Here at StandardSacredText.com we have repeatedly asserted that there was one autograph, there is one canonical apographa (the TR), and as a result it seems only natural to assert that there is one standard sacred text for the English-speaking Church. We believe that text to be the KJV. We anchor our belief in the aboveContinue reading “Third World Modern Evangelical Textual Criticism as a Deathwork”