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”
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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”
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”
Ad hoc attacks on the Authority of the King James Bible as the Word of God in English and Theological Bomb Throwers
Against the individual academic pretender’s ad hoc disparagement of the AV stands the irrefutable historic truth that the AV has been and continues to be the standard sacred English text for the contemporary covenant keeper. Not every covenant keeper of course because spiritual maturity and intellectual acumen is a perpetual variable in the Church. So-calledContinue reading “Ad hoc attacks on the Authority of the King James Bible as the Word of God in English and Theological Bomb Throwers”
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