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Bible versions, like confessions, represent the conclusion of literary, grammatical, and syntactical labors. Rather than showing the aggregate steps in the process, the conclusion of the process is the reading selected for the version. Continuing to build a case for the antecedent of “keep them” being the “pure words” Reformation era versional testimony is presented.Continue reading “Coverdale Bible, 1535, and Psalm 12:6-7”

Celebrated non-Conformist scholar and Hebrew exegete Henry Ainsworth (1571-1622 or 1623) emphasized knowledge of the literal sense of the Hebrew as the prerequisite for determining the principal interpretation. After “the natural meaning of scripture being known, the mysteries of godliness therein applied may be better discerned.” He goes on to say that this discernment “mayContinue reading “Reading Matthew 5:18 from an Eschatological Perspective”

“The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” אִֽמֲרֹ֣ות יְהוָה֮ אֲמָרֹ֪ות טְהֹ֫רֹ֥ות כֶּ֣סֶף צָ֭רוּף בַּעֲלִ֣יל לָאָ֑רֶץ מְ֝זֻקָּ֗ק שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם                             אַתָּֽה־יְהוָ֥ה תִּשְׁמְרֵ֑ם תִּצְּרֶ֓נּוּ׀ מִן־הַדֹּ֖ור ז֣ו לְעֹולָֽם                                                        “words” אִֽמֲרֹ֣ות: plural, feminine, nounContinue reading “Dr. Mark Ward, Psalm 12:6-7, and the Historic Exegetical Argument for the Providential Preservation of God’s words”

Accenting the accuracy of the scientific method, relying wholly on the assiduity of the rational subject, and with the omission of God from the scenario, it is argued with relative ease that Ludwig Feuerbach was in fact correct in his philosophical formulation. In 1843 Feuerbach wrote, The Essence of Christianity, an enchiridion for future theologicalContinue reading “A Wake-up Call to Evangelicals from Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)”

Himself an advocate of the historical critical approach, A. T. Robertson acknowledges the difficulty of reconciling “anti-supernatural scholarship” with “reverence for the Bible as God’s only revelation” in an1892 article entitled “The Inerrancy of Scriptures.” Robertson observed, “In Germany, Rationalism has so long held sway that no man has to apologize for any theory heContinue reading ““The strange thing about it all is that here it is men considered evangelical who accept the results of anti-supernatural scholarship.””

For the modern evangelical text-critic, is there any word in the Greek that we are certain beyond a shadow of doubt is indeed the original word of Scripture written at the hand of Paul or Peter? If yes, what word or words and based on what manuscript evidence and method are those words deemed certainlyContinue reading “The Initial Text is a Unique Defeater for Modern Evangelical Text-Criticism by Peter Van Kleeck, Jr., Ph.D.”

When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s, when it was time to go to church, I would grab my Bible and head for the car. There was only one Bible. It was God’s Word. It was the same Bible my dad carried and that the pastor would preach from. The pastor wouldContinue reading “The Decline of Ecclesiastical Diction and Finding Our Way Back”

Stylos is the blog of Jeff Riddle, a Reformed Baptist Pastor in North Garden, Virginia. The title “Stylos” is the Greek word for pillar. In 1 Timothy 3:15 Paul urges his readers to consider “how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillarContinue reading “Discussion of the book “An Exegetical Grounding for a Standard Sacred Text” by Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr., with Dr. Jeff Riddle”

INTRODUCTION This paper considers the quintessential control medical professionals and particularly doctors assert in the preservation or corruption of medical ethics. The primary resource of this study is entitled Medical Science Under Dictatorship, a report written in 1948 by Dr. Leo Alexander, “a psychiatrist and neurologist who wrote the Nuremberg Code after World War II,Continue reading “AND I WILL DO NO HARM OR INJUSTICE TO THEM?[1] THE MORALITY OF PRESERVING LIFE UNDER GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION”