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”

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”