Category Archives: General Circulation

It was recommended yesterday by one of our readers that I offer a brief treatment of the interrelation of the following positions: Traditional Text position, Ecclesiastical Text position, Confessional Text position, and the Standard Sacred Text position. Often when seeing different terms we expect that each term would denote different things. In this case, asContinue reading “Traditional – Ecclesiastical – Confessional – Standard”

Over the weekend I had a couple interesting experiences. On Saturday I spent over 3 hours watching this debate between a real and properly defined KJVO advocate and Nate Cravatt co-host of The Recovering Fundamentalist podcast and MVO advocate. Observation 1: Cravatt was wholly incapable of appreciating the reality that beliefs can be properly basicContinue reading “Where the Conflict Really Lies”

In approaching our 400th post we have decided to actively reach out beyond the blog and to make that first foray into the realm of Facebook. All are welcome to join. We will be posting content there that will not be posted here. Additionally, we will start holding Facebook LIVE events every Saturday around 11am.Continue reading “Standard Sacred Text Is Now on Facebook”

Years ago my Dad and I joked about making custom Bibles like Orange County Choppers makes custom motorcycles. We would use only quality materials and, at least back then, we knew Hebrew and Greek well enough to translate the whole Bible. I’m sure we could do the same now but we’ve gotten a bit rusty.Continue reading “Orange County Scriptures”

So why is it that so many reject the Standard Sacred Text position? What is it about the argument in general that demands intelligent well-meaning Christians reject its major points? I’m quite certain that it is not the fact that we are arguing for a text as we do for the Standard Sacred Text position.Continue reading “The Problem with the Standard Sacred Text Position?”

Today I chose a random selection of Scripture by opening my Westminster Reference Bible (KJV) and without looking, pointed at a verse and then chose the nine verses after that. My finger landed on Acts 7:1, so let’s compare Acts 7:1-10 in the KJV with the same passage as it occurs in the ESV ActsContinue reading “Random Comparison: Acts 7:1-10 in the KJV and the ESV”

Below is a recent discussion I had on Facebook regarding the meaning and use of “sufficient reliability” as applied to Holy Scripture. I have changed my interlocutors name and made some minor edits to make the conversation more readable. James –  I think “sufficient” is absolutely necessary for any form of bibliology that recognizes that theContinue reading “A Recent Discussion: Should We Speak of Holy Scripture as Sufficiently Reliable?”

Recently I had an email exchange with someone working their way through the version debate and the merits or demerits of the Standard Sacred Text position. My interlocutors position was that NT writers and NT accounts quote from the Septuagint/ LXX and also seem to paraphrase passages from the OT therefore the Bible can remainContinue reading “A Recent Discussion on Paraphrasing God’s Words and the Use of the LXX in the NT”

The Lord has blessed my wife and I with the opportunity to homeschool our 9 children. Well, the last of the 9 starts next year but she still participates in academic life in her own way even if it is spilling her milk at the table where everyone is doing their language arts. That said,Continue reading “We Live and Die by The Measuring Tape”