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God’s word may be set over into English, for the most part word for word without absurdity. Where our language will not bear the strict propriety of the original phrases, we are warranted by the Apostles allegations of Scripture in another tongue, to use such words as the language will afford, to express other withal.Continue reading “Henry Ainsworth, 1609, on Translating the Scripture into English”

The Apostle, better to encourage Timothy to study the Holy Scriptures, goeth on to prove that they are able to make one wise unto salvation, and that by drawn from a full and sufficient enumeration of those things which are necessary to salvation, where he commends the Holy Scriptures upon, a threefold account: 1. ForContinue reading “Thomas Hall, 1658, on 2 Timothy 3:16 and Scripture’s Inspiration”

And herein God shewed his care for the unlearned, who are the greater part of the world; for though they cannot read the Original, yet having a Translation, which, in that it is a Translation, agrees with the Original.1 They receive the same mind of God that the learned do. Why should any man beContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Translations”

It is beyond question that the TR/King James Version has been the Standard Sacred Text for English reading people for 22% or over 1/5 of Church history since the giving of the immediately inspired NT Originals. No other contender either in Greek or English can make this claim. Indeed, every other Greek text and EnglishContinue reading “The Church has Not Escaped the “Great Reset””

Dean John William Burgon, The Traditional Text, 1896, 99-101

The church fathers before 400 a.d. quote the Traditional text or the Greek text that supports the KJB over the Critical Text tradition in a 3:2 preponderance of the time (2630/1753 quotes). The early church fathers quoted the TR tradition and extensively. See John William Burgon, The Traditional Text, 1896, 99-101. While doing undergraduate work,Continue reading “Early Church Fathers and the TR Tradition, part 1”

            “If something is not necessarily true, it is possibly false.” This axiom succinctly delineates the philosophical quandary the modern church finds itself in relation to the possible worlds reflected in bible texts and versions. If the truth of God’s Word as we possess it today is not “necessarily true,” then it is possibly false,Continue reading “Bible Texts and possible Worlds.”

1 Peter 1:23, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” The significance of maintaining the “common salvation” by “earnestly contending for the faith” is taught in Jude 3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the commonContinue reading “REGENERATION AND THE WORD OF GOD”

Sect. 5. That then which is to be the establishment of the Souls of Believers, I shall labor to prove and evince, is plainly this, namely, that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, do abundantly, and uncontrollably manifest themselves to be the Word of the living God; so that merely on the accountContinue reading “John Owen, 1658, on Self-authenticating Scripture”