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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.””

Today I began a conversation with the artificial intelligence ChatGPT. This is the first part of our conversation. I found it interesting in a host of ways and Lord willing we will talk about it on our YouTube channel next week. For now, take a look at the interaction and leave your thoughts and commentsContinue reading “Artificial Intelligence and a Standard Sacred Text (Part 1)”

“Of the word of the Lord. The circumstance of the person sending, the efficient, and author, as of other prophecies, so of this; he comes not unsent, he spoke not of himself, he came not without the Lord, but from him. So he affirmeth, and truly, to get more reverence, credit, and authority with them.Continue reading “Richard Stock’s (1568/69-1626) Commentary on Malachi and “set prescribed words””

The Author of regeneration according to John 3 is the Holy Spirit. John 3:6-7, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again.” Demarest writes, “The Holy Ghost is the Author of regeneration:Continue reading “Series 2, Lecture 12: 1 Peter 1:23-25 and the Link Between Regeneration and the Scripture primarily in the writings of William Ames, 1641 (video)”

Tonight, 4/25, at 7:30pm EST we will hold the thirteenth and last lecture on the exegetical foundation for the theology we call the Providential Preservation of Scripture. Lecture 13 considers Jude 3 in the writings of arguably England’s most accomplished Hebrew scholars, Andrew Willet (1564-1621). The providential preservation of Scripture cannot be classified, categorized, orContinue reading “Series 2, Lecture 13: Jude 3 Considered Primarily in the Commentary of Andrew Willet (1564-1621)”