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The interaction of the angel with the shepherds was so engrained in the hearts and minds of the early church that Luke wrote that his record was “most surely believed,” that he had “perfect understanding,” from which Theophilus and subsequent readers might know “the certainty of those things.” If it was not God Himself whoContinue reading “Christmas, providential preservation, and certainty”

Turning to the familiar passage describing the circumstances surround the birth of Jesus Christ in Luke 2, we want to examine the role the shepherds played in relaying an inspired message to those within their sphere of influence and especially the trust God placed in them. Our first observation is that the shepherds represent theContinue reading “The Christmas Story and a Biblical Paradigm for Manuscript Transmission”

Standardsacredtext.com has embarked on the next phase of Bible defense with the introduction of the live Tuesday night lectures. After publishing three “Grounding” volumes and “Then He Poked the Bear,” this venue gives insights into the authors’ thoughts, research, and rationale behind the writing. Now approaching 600 posts, we receive feedback indicative of the deepContinue reading “Join us for the Tuesday Night Lecture Series”

Tomorrow will be the first of the Standard Sacred Text lecture series. We will begin at 7:30pm EST and will be held on the Zoom meeting platform. The lecture should run 50 or so minutes with LIVE interaction and Q&A both as the lecture is going on as well as afterward. This week we beginContinue reading “LIVE Lecture and Q&A w/ Dr. Van Kleeck Jr.”

Over the past year was have been cranking out the blog posts hand over fist. Material upon material. Starting next week we are switching the bulk of our content to a weekly [Lord willing] live lecture series where Van Kleeck Sr and Jr will begin lecturing through their printed works. Lectures will be held liveContinue reading “Tuesday Night Lectures w/Dr.’s Van Kleeck”

Thesis 5: The argument to the effect that what the majority of believes in the history of the church have believed is true, is ambiguous at best and theologically dangerous at worst; and as applied to textual criticism, the argument proves nothing very helpful anyway. I will point the reader to the following passages: TheContinue reading “D. A. Carson and let’s leave the church out of it.”

Thesis 4: The Alexandrian text type has better credentials than any other text type now available. Quite a dogmatic statement, don’t you think, especially when you consider that Thesis 4 includes the adjective, “better.” On what grounds can Carson say that the Alexandrian text type has “better” credentials than the other 5,100 extant manuscripts? Well,Continue reading “Dr. D.A. Carson, the dating of P75, and more pleading for party orthodoxy”

In this entry Theses 2 and 3 of Carson’s Plea are considered. In 1979 he did not, or course, have access to recent text critical findings, which makes his book the more egregious. Speaking dogmatically, as if the textual critical discipline was a settled science, he delivers this polemic against the Greek and English standardContinue reading “Dr. D. A. Carson: a fundamentalist evangelist for critical orthodoxy”

Chapter 7 Carson begins, “In what follows I shall not argue that the vociferous defenders of the TR are knaves or fools. I shall seek to demonstrate, rather, that their interpretation of the evidence is mistaken…Their presuppositions in favor of the TR have made most of them careless about determining the truth of many ofContinue reading “Carson’s 14 Theses: Horse and buggy arguments in a C8 Corvette World”

For those that are following this thread, Carson writes of the Textus Receptus as if it were the creation of Erasmus, uniquely named by Elzevir publishers in 1624, years after the publication of the KJB. Named the Textus Receptus in 1624, the Church finally had the Textus Receptus. This old and worn-out line of reasoningContinue reading “More of D.A. Carson’s Plea”