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Celebrated non-Conformist scholar and Hebrew exegete Henry Ainsworth (1571-1622 or 1623) emphasized knowledge of the literal sense of the Hebrew as the prerequisite for determining the principal interpretation. After “the natural meaning of scripture being known, the mysteries of godliness therein applied may be better discerned.” He goes on to say that this discernment “mayContinue reading “Reading Matthew 5:18 from an Eschatological Perspective”

“The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” אִֽמֲרֹ֣ות יְהוָה֮ אֲמָרֹ֪ות טְהֹ֫רֹ֥ות כֶּ֣סֶף צָ֭רוּף בַּעֲלִ֣יל לָאָ֑רֶץ מְ֝זֻקָּ֗ק שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם                             אַתָּֽה־יְהוָ֥ה תִּשְׁמְרֵ֑ם תִּצְּרֶ֓נּוּ׀ מִן־הַדֹּ֖ור ז֣ו לְעֹולָֽם                                                        “words” אִֽמֲרֹ֣ות: plural, feminine, nounContinue reading “Dr. Mark Ward, Psalm 12:6-7, and the Historic Exegetical Argument for the Providential Preservation of God’s word”

Himself an advocate of the historical critical approach, A. T. Robertson acknowledges the difficulty of reconciling “anti-supernatural scholarship” with “reverence for the Bible as God’s only revelation” in an 1892 article entitled “The Inerrancy of Scriptures.” Robertson observed, “In Germany, Rationalism has so long held sway that no man has to apologize for any theoryContinue reading ““The strange thing about it all is that here it is men considered evangelical who accept the results of anti-supernatural scholarship.””

Accenting the accuracy of the scientific method, relying wholly on the assiduity of the rational subject, and with the omission of God from the scenario, it is argued with relative ease that Ludwig Feuerbach was in fact correct in his philosophical formulation. In 1843 Feuerbach wrote, The Essence of Christianity, an enchiridion for future theologicalContinue reading “A Wake-up Call from Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)”

If, as has been shown in the earlier part of this discussion, Scripture is divine in its origin, character and authority, it must bear the marks of divinity.  If the heavens declare the glory of God and therefore bear witness to their divine Creator, the Scripture as God’s handiwork must also bear the imprints ofContinue reading “Imprints of God’s Authorship”

We deny not the ministry of the Church as an external means to move us to embrace the word of God, but we deny the authority of the Church to be the principal means. When we call the Scriptures Canonical, we call them not so passively, because they are received into the Canon by men,Continue reading “The Self-Attesting 66 Book Canon”

With the collapse of Evangelical textual criticism, (See Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Jr.’s post on “The Initial Text is a Unique Defeater for Modern Evangelical Text-Criticism”) taking inventory of the last 140 years (1881 to the present) of theological formulation is inevitable. One might ask, “How early in the textual critical process did scholars realizeContinue reading “Admitting That It’s Over”

When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s, when it was time to go to church, I would grab my Bible and head for the car. There was only one Bible. It was God’s Word. It was the same Bible my dad carried and that the pastor would preach from. The pastor wouldContinue reading “The Decline of Ecclesiastical Diction and Finding Our Way Back”

The rigors of textual critical work were the obligatory work of the Reformation theologians as they confronted their Roman Catholic counterparts and their own textual critical inquiry and polemic. Rather than asserting a retardation of critical work due to this struggle, the reality of this tension stimulated and indeed demanded critical inquiry. There was noContinue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621): Text Critical Concerns in Romans 1:32”

How much will this argument be enforced, when we further consider, of many other particulars revealed in Scripture, which none but God could possibly know? As that there are three that bear record in heaven, 1 John 5:8, 1 Tim. 3:[1]6, John 1:14. That God was manifested in our flesh, so as the alone MediatorContinue reading “Thomas Ford, 1667, and more reasons why Scripture must be from God”