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These 13 things have coalesced over many years of undergrad, grad, and post-grad college and seminary education. After reading what Dr. Van Kleeck wrote regarding young men throwing off their early theological training for their professors’ lectures, I thought this to be a timely list. This is not comprehensive, but it has been very helpfulContinue reading “13 Things To Remember When You Do Your Undergraduate or Graduate Work”

Gen. 3:4, And the serpent said unto the woman, “Ye shall not surely die.” In this passage Satan contradicts the word of God in Gen. 2:17, “for in the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die.” Considering the latitude given Evangelical text critics and in the spirit of giving them the benefit of theContinue reading “Does the Devil Just Hold to Textual Variants?”

[Against the backdrop of recent posts addressing the disparagement of the KJV, the following 18th century assessment if presented. The modifiers “magnificence,” “sublimity,” “eloquence,” “grandeur,” “nobleness,” and “majestic” are applied to the KJV. By inference, by referring to “St. Paul’s writings,” “the Apostle’s eloquence,” and “the holy Penmen,” Stackhouse argues that the beauty of theContinue reading “Thomas Stackhouse (1677–1752) and the Magnificence and Sublimity of the KJV”

Now the Church must hear Christ’s voice. Christ’s sheep will hear his voice, John 10:16. They will neither hear nor follow a stranger, ver. 5. Christ’s voice is not to be heard but in the Scriptures. Therefore other doctrine must not be received of the Church than is taught and delivered in the Scriptures. ThisContinue reading “Andrew Willet, (1562-1621), on the Sufficiency of Scripture”

I am almost finished reading Carl. R. Trueman’s important book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020), 425 pages. Of the many things this book illustrates is that one’s worldview is the product of sentiment or how one feels about self,Continue reading “Carl. R. Trueman’s important book, “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” and climbing out of the rabbit hole.”

Question: Why are the Scriptures called Canonical? Answer: Because the Word is a Rule of Faith, a Canon to direct our lives. The Word is the Judge of controversies, the Rock of Infallibility; that only is to be received for Truth, which is consonant to, and agrees with Scripture, as the transcript with the original.Continue reading “Thomas Watson,1692, A Body of Practical Divinity: “whom God intends to destroy, he gives leave to play with Scripture” (Luther)”

The Scripture you say are a rule and a line: but are they not (as the Church of Rome imagineth) like a rule of lead, which may be bowed everyway at men’s pleasure. “They are as a rule of steel, that is firm and changeth not. (Matt. 5:18; Psalm 19:9) For seeing they are sufficientContinue reading “James Ussher, 1647, on Scripture as the Unchanging Rule”

The entire book, The Scriptures Sufficiency to Determine All Matters of Faith: or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his Faith and Religion in the Holy Scriptures, is comprised of stating a position that deals with the ambivalence among believers as the correctness of Popish, Calvinistic, and Lutheran doctrine. Twisse raises objection afterContinue reading “William Twisse (1578-1646) on Scripture as the Only Source of “faith divine.””

            1 Peter 1:24 is a citation of Isaiah 40:6-8. This passage, within its immediate context is a powerful testimony to the faithfulness of God to Israel because “the word of our God shall stand forever.” The first voice of chapter 40 in found in verse 3 which prophetically speaks of John the Baptist preparingContinue reading “Another Verse on Verbal Preservation: Isaiah 40:6-8”

[For those readers familiar with the Standard Sacred Text, Bullinger’s comment further demonstrates the historic orthodox understanding of Scriptural authority. From the abundant testimony of Reformation era writers from the Continent and England the theological continuity on this point is conspicuous. Bullinger’s commentary is of an intimate character showing the continuity between the work ofContinue reading “Henrich Bullinger, 1504-1575, on the Perfection of Scripture’s Authority from the Holy Ghost and Scripture’s Self-authentication”