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As of January 10, 2022, at 12:39pm StandardSacredText.com has reached 139 posts. We have largely concluded our two series of A Bibliology Primer and Essential Vocab. A large portion of our argument has been laid out for your examination and perusal. We hope that you can see that it is not King James Onlyism popularlyContinue reading “Why the King James Version?”

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth…For the law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:14 & 17 MERRY CHRISTMAS!

At the very end of Holy Scripture God in His providence determined that the apostle John warns his readers in the following way, “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that areContinue reading “Why the Warning in Revelation 22:18-19?”

For the Weekly Question this week I wanted to talk a bit out the TR; it’s existence versus the TR as an object of knowledge. In my last post I posited that the Early-Modern-English-is-too-hard-to-read argument is an old, outdated argument because of the copious number of learning tools and learning opportunities at the saint’s disposal.Continue reading “The TR as an Object of Knowledge”

Below I give you an excerpt from a play of the prolific playwright, William Shakespeare. Being unsure of my audience’s familiarity with Shakespeare I’m not sure how this will go, but after you read the text in that dastardly Early Modern English which so many Christians claim is too difficult to understand, see if youContinue reading “Name That Story”

THE NEW HERMENEUTIC: TOWARD THE FORMULATION OF A NEW EVANGELICAL ORTHODOXY by Peter W. Van Kleeck, Sr. A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course “Interpretation and Application in Expository Preaching,” Bob Jones University, March 2006 Introduction             The multi-layered dialectic of biblical interpretation called the “new hermeneutic” properly is aContinue reading “Theology and Hermeneutics”

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 And how exactly did God do this most profound act of creation? He did it with His words. He spoke the world into existence. Unlike our words, God’s words have power to create, change, and destroy. Where we need to combine elements toContinue reading “The Power of the Word of God”

The Holy Ghost, who is the author of the Holy Scripture, hath not put down any one word in writing, whether in the New Testament or in the Old, that is either superstitious or unprofitable, though it seem so to many; but it hath his mystery and signification for our learning, and either for theContinue reading “James Pilkington, (1520-1576), John Jewel (1522-1571), and William Tyndale (1494–1536) on the Profitability of Scripture”