apologetics – Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr., Musings in Bibliology

C. G. Lamothe, 1695, on The Holy Scriptures Inspired

The first proof of the Inspiration of the Sacred Books of the New Testament, drawn from the manner after which the Ancients speak of it. Tis known how the Christians speak at this day of the Holy Scripture of the New Testament. According to their style tis called The Scripture, by way of Excellency; theContinue reading “C. G. Lamothe, 1695, on The Holy Scriptures Inspired”

Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Translations

And herein God shewed his care for the unlearned, who are the greater part of the world; for though they cannot read the Original, yet having a Translation, which, in that it is a Translation, agrees with the Original.1 They receive the same mind of God that the learned do. Why should any man beContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Translations”

Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Holy Scripture

That the Scriptures are a proposal of all these truths to our understandings in a way of most fair and full credibility, and that appears in these three things. The way of proposal is most credible. The things propounded are in themselves evidently true. The expressions in which they are laid down, are plain, andContinue reading “Nathaniel Ingelo, 1659, on the Credibility of Holy Scripture”

THE WASTELAND OF MODERN TEXTUAL CRITICISM

THE WASTELAND OF MODERN TEXTUAL CRITICISM Since the 1901 American Standard Version, English speaking people were told about new bibles that were more reliable and accurate than the antiquated King James Version. Indeed, only the ignorant of contemporary scholarship would be so foolish to hold to the superiority of the King James Version. Now overContinue reading “THE WASTELAND OF MODERN TEXTUAL CRITICISM”