“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Ephesians 4:4-6 John Calvin writes in his commentary on the above passage from Ephesians, “Some consider the unity ofContinue reading “One Lord. One Faith. One Bible?”
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Apographa
“copies of an original; specifically, the scribal copies of the original autographa (q.v.) of Scripture.”Richard Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology, Term: apographa. The term apographa deserves close attention in that the documents were not merely understood to be copies of copies of copies. Still, for theContinue reading “Apographa”
What is Standard Sacred Text.com – Text
Before addressing a topic so fundamental as the doctrine of God, Francis Turretin begins his Institutes of Elenctic Theology with a discussion on the doctrine of Scripture. Turretin is writing in the third wave of the Reformation and the struggle over the certainty and authority of the Scriptures was still a hotly contested locus betweenContinue reading “What is Standard Sacred Text.com – Text”
Scripture Endures Forever
What are we as Christians to make of these passages? Are we to disregard them as oriental hyperbole, or a literary device, or a contextually limited application? Or are we to accept the clear and conspicuous, historically anchored meaning of “forever”? To reject the truth of Scripture’s “foreverness” presents the need to reinterpret the passagesContinue reading “Scripture Endures Forever”
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”
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”
Competing Bibles and the Fire that Renovates Sin-cursed Creation
Imagine if you will the implications of a text of Scripture that is not what it claims to be, that is a prevaricating text confronted with the glory of heaven and not at all possessing the transcendent qualities it claims for itself. Not pure, certainly not immutable, and conspicuously not eternal, and not evenContinue reading “Competing Bibles and the Fire that Renovates Sin-cursed Creation”
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