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So here what a large encomium and high commendation the Holy Ghost gives of the Scriptures, even such as is given to no other book in the world besides. He commends them in respect of one special property and adjunct, viz. their Holiness. The Holy Scriptures. From their effects, they are able to make usContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, on 2 Timothy 3:15: “Love the Scriptures for their purity. As God is to be loved for his purity, so is his word.””

In a recent interaction I had on the frontier of the digital Wild West an accusation was brought against the Standard Sacred Text position by Dr. Elijah Hixon which stated that TR specific or KJV specific arguments are fine so long as they don’t address the details. But as soon as the details are takenContinue reading “Do the “Details” Defeat the Standard Sacred Text Position?”

6. And for this, God (whose care is equal for all successions of men) hath graciously provided, by causing Holy Scriptures to be written, by which he hath derived on every succeeding age the illumination of the former. And for that purpose, endowed the writers not only with that moral fidelity requisite to the truthContinue reading “Richard Allestree,1678, on the Preservation of Scripture”

            Perhaps the most useful convocation of Evangelicals for the propagation of MVO was by the writing and signing of the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy in 1978. Signed by 300 noted Evangelical leaders, (including James Boice, Norman L. Geisler, John Gerstner, Jay Grimstead, Carl F. H. Henry, Kenneth Kantzer, Harold Lindsell, John Warwick Montgomery, RogerContinue reading “Multiple Version Onlyism (MVO) and the 1978 Chicago Statement on Inerrancy”

In a recent discussion I had in the Wild West of Facebook back-and-forth I was told by a couple of my interlocutors that multiple differing manuscripts, multiple differing Greek texts, and multiple differing versions were all the word of God. I found this puzzling and I found it puzzling for the following reasons: 1.) PremiseContinue reading “Can Multiple Versions Equally Be God’s Word?”

The notion of Multiple Version Onlyism (hence MVO) arguably began in 1901 with the American Standard Version and has developed unabated until the present day. MVO holds to the uncritical, inclusive approval of the aggregate content of every English version since 1901 as God’s Word in English. MVO includes both formal and dynamic equivalency includingContinue reading “An Introduction to Multiple Version Onlyism”

In 1998 Peter Van Kleeck, Sr. published a monograph entitled Fundamentalism’s Folly? A Bible Version Debate Case Study in response to a symposium entitled The Bible Version Debate: The Perspective of Central Baptist Theological Seminary released by Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis, MN, 1997. Of particular interest was the finding that the leaders of FundamentalismContinue reading “Fundamentalism’s Folly? revisited”

Common Place IIII. Of the Holy Scripture What is the Scripture called? The Scripture, putting one name for another is used for the writings of the Prophets and Apostles, which the company of the faithful doth religiously use for the instruction in godliness. And it is called holy, because, being delivered of God, it containethContinue reading “William Bucanus, 1659, Professor of Divinity in the University of Lausanne, on Scripture’s Self-attesting Witness”

In Dr. Van Kleeck’s excellent article on “Reason and Theology” three uses of reason in the formulation and defense of theology are identified. This post is an excerpt from a 17th c. commentary on Daniel where reason is utilized to answer the doctrine of the ubiquitous presence of the body of Christ in the Eucharist.Continue reading “17th c. Apologetics”