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”
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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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