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When we speak of the text of Scripture and specifically the TR/KJV, we are talking about the Bible, the viva vox Dei in the original language and vernacular. This is an exegetically based, theological assessment based on grammatical and syntactical application of the three “selfs” – that Scripture is self-attesting, self-authenticating, (autopistos) and self-interpreting. BecauseContinue reading “God’s Covenantal Word”

In this section Tyndale argues strongly against specialized training for the understanding of Scripture based on the proven ambivalence of scholarship. Such ambivalence and disagreement foment division and sects. Scholars “corrupteth the scripture, and fashioneth it after his own imagination, as a potter doth his clay.” Tyndale is referring to popish theologians but the overlapContinue reading “Tyndale, 1528 – “God is not man’s imagination; but that only which he saith of himself.””

Yesterday the fourth episode of the Textual Confidence Collective [TCC] dropped. As I said in yesterday’s post, I thought this was easily the most low energy episode so far. It is almost like they were bored by their own podcast. Still, they managed to put out some interesting tidbits and enough to critique. I knowContinue reading “Unfounded Foundations of the TCC”

The sermons which thou readest in the Acts of the apostles, and all that the apostles preached, were no doubt preached in the mother tongue. Why then might they not be written in the mother tongue? As, if one of us preach a good sermon, why may it not be written? Saint Jerome also translatedContinue reading “William Tyndale, 1528: Discerning the poison from the honey — a 16th c. critique of modern Evangelical text criticism”

Ryle, writing on the plenary authority of Scripture, admonishes the reader, “That is, that everything which it says must be received reverently and unhesitatingly, and that not one jot or tittle of it ought to be disregarded. Every word of Scripture must be allowed its full weight, and must neither be clipped, passed over, norContinue reading “J.C. Ryle on John 10:35”

Of Venning’s style, John Edwards (1637-1716) remarks in “The Preacher ‘”(1705, i. 203): “He turns sentences up and down, and delights in little cadences and chiming of words.” Of special interest in this short excerpt: Scripture is “our judge.” Scripture is “this rule” from which all opinions are judged “to see whether they be ofContinue reading “Ralph Venning (1622-1674) on Scripture as the Infallible Rule”

The following was first published on February 18, 2022, in reference to a podcast Mark Ward, Ph.D., where he argued that Psalm 12:6-7 does not teach the verbal preservation of Scripture. It was my hope that the research done while taking a Ph.D. course toward my Th.M. at Calvin Theological Seminary would provide Dr. WardContinue reading “The TCC and Psalm 12:6-7”

            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 ofContinue reading “The Link Between Regeneration and the Scripture”

As you read through biblical commentaries over the centuries, you will begin to note a rising incursion of secular rationalism into the commentary as the comment moves from the interpretation of the Scripture as a settled standard to a comment that offers alternate, non-exegetically based readings and interpretations. That is, scientific categories – theological, linguistic,Continue reading “What to Make of Matthew 24:35”

In the study of Scripture, the saint’s position is one of dependence upon God. Following the example of Samuel, our hearts say, “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth.” Theologians are by necessity listeners. If there is no listening, there will be no knowledge of what the proper theological questions are. The fact that all knowledgeContinue reading “How to Study the Bible, or for all the secular-thinking Christian scholars out there, it’s not too late to get things right.”