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Gen. 3:4, And the serpent said unto the woman, “Ye shall not surely die.” In this passage Satan contradicts the word of God in Gen. 2:17, “for in the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die.” Considering the latitude given Evangelical text critics and the spirit of giving them the benefit of the doubt,Continue reading “Does the Devil Just Hold to Textual Variants?”

[For those readers familiar with the Standard Sacred Text Bullinger’s comment further demonstrates the historic orthodox understanding of Scriptural authority. From the abundant testimony of Reformation era writers from the Continent and England the theological continuity on this point is conspicuous. Bullinger’s commentary is of an intimate character making no distinction between the work ofContinue reading “Henrich Bullinger, 1504-1575, on the Perfection of Scripture’s Authority from the Holy Ghost and Scripture’s Self-authentication”

The entire book is a comprised of stating a position that deals with the ambivalence among believers as the correctness of Popish, Calvinistic, and Lutheran doctrine. Twisse raises objection after objection to which position is correct and then argues didactically from Scripture to say that one can have certain and infallible faith in God’s writtenContinue reading “William Twisse (1578-1646), “The Scriptures Sufficiency to Determine All Matters of Faith””

The Scripture you say are a rule and a line: but are they not (as the Church of Rome imagineth) like a rule of lead, which may be bowed everyway at men’s pleasure. “They are as a rule of steel, that is firm and changeth not. (Matt. 5:18; Psalm 19:9) For seeing they are sufficientContinue reading “James Ussher, 1647, on Scripture as the Unchanging Rule”

Question: Why are the Scriptures called Canonical? Answer: Because the Word is a Rule of Faith, a Canon to direct our lives. The Word is the Judge of controversies, the Rock of Infallibility; that only is to be received for Truth, which is consonant to, and agrees with Scripture, as the transcript with the original.Continue reading “Thomas Watson,1692, A Body of Practical Divinity: “whom God intends to destroy, he gives leave to play with Scripture” (Luther)”

Having proved the divinity and inspiration of the scripture, we next consider its authority. Now this is nothing else but the dignity and right of the sacred books, whereby they claim our faith in whatever they hold forth as necessary to be believed, and our obedience in whatever they prescribe to be done, or toContinue reading “Benedict Pictet (1655-1724) on the Authority of the Scriptures”

Since the early 19th century is there anyone who believes that the MVO position can produce a text to replace the King James Version having proven that the two things that are different cannot be the same axiom makes it impossible to come up with a definitive answer to the believer’s question as to whetherContinue reading “The Evangelical Mob”

Willian Bucanus observes that it takes more than a keen mind to understand Scripture. In the following three quotes taken from his Body of Divinity, Bucanus accents regeneration as the essential element to understanding that Scripture comes from God, that it is clear to the elect, and that it is the Authority standing above theContinue reading “William Bucanus, 1659, Professor of Divinity in the University of Lausanne on Regeneration, Infallibility, Perspicuity, and Authority”

Trelcatius listed five points in his polemic against Roman Catholic scholar Franciscus Costerus (1532-1619) and Rome’s emphasis of the superiority of the Church Authority over Scripture. As cited in previous posts, there is a close analogy between Rome’s notion of authority and that of the modern evangelical text critic. Though writing in 1604, Trelcatius providesContinue reading “Lucas Trelcatius, 1604, and the Question of Authority”