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Tonight 6/13 at 7:30 we will hold the fourth lecture of series three on “A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text: The Theocentricity of the Canon“ Presbyterian scholar and Westminster Professor John Murray articulates the “imprints” of God’s Authorship upon Scripture, writing, “If, as has been shown in the earlier part of this discussion,Continue reading “Series 3, Lecture 4: A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text: The Theocentricity of the Canon”

Tonight 6/6 at 7:30 we will hold the third lecture of series three on “A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text: The Connection Between Apostolic Preaching and the Written Word of God.” According to 1 Thess. 2:13, Paul’s preaching was received as God’s Word –“ye received it not as the word of men, butContinue reading “Series 3, Lecture 3: A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text: The Connection Between Apostolic Preaching and the Written Word of God”

An orthodox Christian theological grounding for a Standard Sacred Text must of necessity begin with Jesus Christ and the Christ-complex – the death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and Pentecost – to be properly formulated (Luke 24: 27, 44). Beginning with the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, “God manifest in the flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16), Christo-centricityContinue reading “Series 3 Lecture 2: Canonicity and Apostolicity (Video)”

This first lecture concerns the issue of first principles and particularly the role of Scripture as the principium cognoscendi or first principle of theological knowledge. Have you ever wondered if it is viciously circular to appeal to the Bible in order to defend the Bible? Have you ever thought the Bible to depend on some prior orContinue reading “Series 3 Lecture 1: Scripture as First Principle (Video)”

Tonight at 7:30 we will hold the second lecture of series three on “A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text.” An orthodox Christian theological grounding for a Standard Sacred Text must of necessity begin with Jesus Christ and the Christ-complex – the death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and Pentecost – to be properly formulated (LukeContinue reading “Series 3, Lecture 2, A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text: Canonicity and Apostolicity”

Tonight at 7:30pm EST we will begin lecturing through A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text. The first lecture concerns the issue of first principles and particularly the role of Scripture as the principium cognoscendi or first principle of theological knowledge. Have you ever wondered if it is viciously circular to appeal to the Bible in orderContinue reading “Series 3: A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text – Lecture 1: Scripture as First Principle”

Welcome to those defenders of the providentially preserved infallible and available Scriptures as well as to those who have yet see the light of pre-Enlightenment Bibliology. First off, starting next Tuesday (May 23) we will begin lecturing through A Theological Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text. The first lecture concerns the issue of first principlesContinue reading “Kiss the Royal Seal of “…Or The Apparatus””

Here is the second installment and conclusion I had with ChatGPT. As we continued the discussion it turned to the role of textual criticism in arriving at the correct reading. I used 1 John 5:7 as a test case because it is thought to have a probability of 0 as to originality. As a result,Continue reading “Artificial Intelligence and a Standard Sacred Text (Part 2)”

Such is the depth of the Christian Scripture, that therein I could reap new advantage every day, if I had given myself over to the study of it alone, from my very first childhood even to decrepit old age, with the greatest leisure earnestest study, and a more happy genius; not that it is soContinue reading “Augustine, in his 121th Epistle, otherwise Third, to Volusianus, Proconsul of Africa, Uncle to Melania the Younger, Numb. 3”

“There are some who think many things needless to be known and heard, many things not fit to be taught, as before, ver. 6. Besides that was then said, I say, let them see if this be not to check the wisdom of God, who hath both written and preserved the whole to the church;Continue reading “Restraining or Stopping (“to check”) the Wisdom of God to the Church by treating some of inspired and preserved Scripture “needless.””