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How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 2
III. New Testament Witness to the Transmission of the Autographa In accord with Christ’s prayer (John 17:8), the saints and the churches immediately received the books of the New Testament as they were given by inspiration. The seven churches recognized the Revelation of John as Scripture immediately upon receipt of the book (Revelation 1:11), the […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 4
My Music History I didn’t grow up with the music I believe is fit for worship. I grew up in Southern Indiana with country. I never heard sermons about music — our church wasn’t that type of church. Songs I remember from church: Get All Excited (and it was sung about like this) and Turn […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 3
This will be short lived, but I wanted to offer some links of rebuttals to those demanding the heads of rap rejecters on a platter. I don’t know the man, but D. G. Hart — Very good here. I too liked the comment of one in the comment section asking why “gospel” is being used […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 2
Part One. It’s never a good time for a lot of things, but I’ve stepped into this hip-hop manure pile anyway, and it has been enlightening. I did not know the gooey depths of difference between me (us) and evangelicals. They are living in their own universe on this, which isn’t God’s. They come from […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?
Last week in evangelicalism, a sizeable controversy arose over a panel discussion at the national conference for The National Center for Family-Integrated Churches (NCFIC). The conference was on the Worship of God and the session was a six man panel answering, “What about Holy Hip Hop?” The reason I knew about it was because Scott […]
How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 1
I. Scriptural Presuppositions Scripture teaches the verbal, plenary preservation of the verbally, plenarily inspired autographa (Psalm 12:6-7), the availability of the preserved text to every generation of the people of God (Isaiah 59:21), who, institutionalized in Israel in the Old Testament era and in the church during the age of grace, are responsible for […]
The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today, pt. 2
Part One Part one of this got little attention, let alone little love, when I think it is stating things as they are. I’m not going to go back to the Kaufman and Kafka analogy — you’ll have to read part one to get that — but I’m going to be a glutton for punishment, […]
The Use of the Singular in the Bible, and the Church
Bruce Waltke in his Biblical Hebrew Syntax writes (p. 113): Hebrew uses the grammatical singular for countables, for collectives, and for class nouns. . . . With countables the singular serves to enumerate one object. “The earth” in Genesis 1:2 is an early example. He continues (pp. 113-114): With collectives the singular designates a group. […]
The Anabaptists Did Not Get the Trinity From Constantine, and the Ancient Arians Were Bloody Persecutors
In modern times, anti-Trinitarian cults like to claim that the doctrine of the Trinity came from Constantine, and was imposed upon an unwilling Christian world by the power of the Roman Church – State. However, such a claim is simply false, especially for the true churches, the Anabaptist churches that were separated from the Roman […]
Ekklesia Means “Assembly” pt. 3
Part One, Part Two, (A Related Blogpost) Why is the idea of the universal church dangerous? (For Those Who Want In Depth Exegesis on the Church, Find It from the Many Links at the Right Column Under “Posts On the Church”) I think this could be a pretty good discussion, but Don Johnson has just (11/24) […]
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