The Destructive Practice of Treating Biblical Truth as Less Than the Truth
In my series, “Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly,” I have shown how people and groups outside of scripture changed a truth of scripture, namely the perfect preservation of scripture. You can trace this occurring. Churches and church leaders in alignment with the authority of scripture believed, taught, and wrote confessions stating […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Eight)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part Seven Textual variants were not the reason for the change in doctrine on the preservation of scripture. Those began to exist after men started making hand copies of the Greek New Testament from the originals. Everyone […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Seven)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six The quotations for this series rate as worth two or three times the gargantuan amount already provided, because they represent what biblical theologians, pastors, and churches thought and believed. Even if men are going to claim those confessions […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Six)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five In 1743, Benjamin Franklin — yes, that Benjamin Franklin, a printer — printed the first edition of the Philadelphia Baptist Confession (PBC) of Faith. It essentially embraced still the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession, except adding two articles to that London […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four The views on the preservation of scripture in 1.8 of the Westminster Confession of Faith didn’t start there. They represented the historic doctrine of preservation. It didn’t stop there either. Chapter one of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith on the “Holy Scriptures” […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three Westminster Confession of Faith 1.8 in the section on the Holy Scriptures reads: The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which, at the time of the writing of it, was most […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Three)
Part One Part Two Why a Journal Article on This? Why do modern textual criticism and multiple contemporary version advocates want to read a novel message into the writings of members of the Westminster Assembly of the 17th century? It’s a big enough deal that they include their argument in the Journal for the […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Two)
Part One Cherry Picking Quotes Instead of Showing Direct Evidence Zachary Cole apparently presented his paper, “Providential Preservation of Scripture and Textual Criticism in the Sermons of Westminster Divines” (68.3 (2025): 405–23), in a late 2025 edition of JETS at a recent meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. I don’t want to misrepresent him. His […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly
True doctrine comes from scripture. It doesn’t come from consensus and so-called science. The first question about the correct position on the preservation of the Bible should be, “What does the Bible say about its own preservation?” Armed with what God’s Word says about itself, one considers all related materials. Through history men made errors […]
Predominant Criteria for Worship That Distort and Corrupt Worship of God
Just to keep track of what’s going on here, I’ve got several series still ongoing. I wanted to remind you and perhaps assure you, that Lord-willing I will, definitely want to, finish these. Monday, I published the fourth in a series entitled, The Spectrum on Israel Accepted in the MAGA Movement (parts one, two, three, […]