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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”

Some might be thinking that it’s unfair to hold Carson’s 1979 offering to contemporary “standards” as if Carson’s writing is reminiscent of your local weatherman’s forecast. No one holds the meteorologist liable for erroneous forecasts, except in sever circumstances, due to the always fluctuating conditions of seasonal weather. But Carson, who received his Ph.D. fromContinue reading “Carson’s Calamity”

After being taught by my dad that the Bible was God’s Word, as he was taught, and indeed, as the Christian tradition believed for centuries, in 1974, after HS graduation I went off to the Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit PA, to begin my preparation for the ministry. In my innocent idealism I actuallyContinue reading “D.A. Carson and his throw-away line on why we should be glad we don’t have the autographs”

This book is written within a radically historic framework while claiming adherence to an orthodox doctrine of Scripture. For 128 pages no reference is made to the role of the Holy Spirit/Covenant keeper/Scripture dynamic (Isa. 59:21, etc.) or to the exegesis of passages historically cited in favor of providential preservation. For the purposes of thisContinue reading “The State of the Bible Version Issue in 1979 and its Current Irrelevance Drawn from The King James Version Debate: A Plea for Realism by D.A. Carson.”

The following quote can be found in my Westminster class notes[pp. 4-5] found here and particularly the ST 101 – Introduction to Systematic Theology notes. As a reminder, come the end of the semester those notes will be replaced with new notes from different classes sometime in January. Blessings. ______________________________ The historic conviction of theContinue reading “Faith and the Principium of Theology”