What if we had a standard sacred text? Say the English-speaking believing community was to arrive at and agree on a standard sacred text. What negative outcomes do you think will come about? What are the cons? How would the Church be injured? What does the worst-case scenario look like? What is the likely scenario?Continue reading “Weekly Question – What if we had a Standard Sacred Text?”
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The Department of Education, Big Pharma, and Bible Publishers
Riding home from a family visit, we were listening to the radio and a commentor’s observation on the existence of the Department of Education. He scoffed at the notion that the DOE functioned to educate children. In summary, he concluded that the education of children was not the department’s purpose because well-educated children would giveContinue reading “The Department of Education, Big Pharma, and Bible Publishers”
What is Standard Sacred Text.com – Standard
The term “canon” means rule, reed, or standard. We often refer to the Scriptures as the canon of Scripture. This is to say that the Scriptures are the rule, the reed, and the standard. Just as the Triune God is the archetypical Rule, Reed, and Standard so also the Scriptures are rule, reed, and standard.Continue reading “What is Standard Sacred Text.com – Standard”
Autographa
“autographa: autographs, originals; specifically, the original autograph copies of the books of the Bible as they came from the hands of the inspired authors.” Richard Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology, Term: autographa. NOTES: It is interesting to observe that the “autographa” was for the Protestant ScholasticsContinue reading “Autographa”
Why Do Christians Defend the Bible in the Same Manner as Unbelievers?
Why Do Christians Defend the Bible Like the Unbeliever?
Why do Christians defend their Bible in a manner similar to the unbeliever? Instead of asserting the Bible as infallible and the preserved Word of God, contemporary apologetics often begins with Christians on the defensive. The apologist typically counteracts the critic’s evidential defeaters using a similar set of evidential arguments, leading to a back-and-forth ofContinue reading “Why Do Christians Defend the Bible Like the Unbeliever?”
It’s 2025: Where is Dr. Ward on Psalm 12:6-7
Looking through the archived posts of Standard Sacred Text you will find several articles relating to Psalm 12:6-7, verbal preservation, historic churchly and academic exegetical support for the rendering and Dr. Mark Ward’s strong objection to the passage referring to the verbal preservation of Scripture. For Ward, the notion that any self-attesting witnesses to theContinue reading “It’s 2025: Where is Dr. Ward on Psalm 12:6-7”
Miscellany, James 2:10-11, the Nature of God, and Scripture as a Reflection of that Nature
Qualitative and Quantitative Difference: Biblical Change is Always Major
So I shot a video tonight and my mic was not selected so the whole video was a waste and then summarily deleted. Rather than doing nothing I asked the machine (ChatGPT) to share a word on qualitative vs quantitative change in Scripture and the following are its rather adroit conclusions. At StandardSacredText.com, we oftenContinue reading “Qualitative and Quantitative Difference: Biblical Change is Always Major”
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