Unscriptural and Extreme Forms of Separation
On July 13, David Litt wrote an opinion article in the New York Times, entitled, “Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?” Apparently, Litt served as a presidential speech writer in the Obama White House for four years. Today, Sarah Jones in the New York Magazine, Intelligencer, wrote a piece called, “It’s Okay […]
The Heritage of the Ancient Turn toward Allegorization as a Hermeneutic
Part One Allegorical interpretation of scripture began to take shape in the pre-Christian era with Jewish scholars like Philo of Alexandria, who sought to reconcile Hebrew scriptures with Greek philosophy. By the 2nd century AD, early Christian thinkers like Origen adopted and expanded this method, viewing the Bible as containing hidden, spiritual meanings beneath its […]
The History of Textual Criticism Supplanting Divine and Perfect Preservation of Scripture
The Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason, empiricism, and skepticism toward traditional authority, gave rise to the naturalistic approach to scripture and modern textual criticism. These challenged transcendental and fideistic views of truth and the belief in the providential, divine, and perfect preservation of scripture. This shift occurred through a convergence of intellectual movements—empiricism, German […]
Allegorization of Scripture Has an Ancient History Deviating from the Truth
The Use of History If you can’t prove your point with scripture, you could rest on history. You have an apparent old belief, so you provide old quotes to say this is the historical position of the church. It’s an argument, sure. As you know, false doctrine is old too. Also, the majority position, the […]
What Makes a Postmillennialist Like Douglas Wilson Afraid of Preaching a Book: My Take
Douglas Wilson’s Fear of Teaching Isaiah A few weeks ago Douglas Wilson posted a video in an interview with Joe Rigney, an associate pastor at his church, where he was asked why he wouldn’t preach on certain books of the Bible. For instance, he had not preached through Isaiah and wouldn’t because of the difficulty […]
D. A. Carson And What He Calls, “Lowest Common Denominator Theology”
A clip appeared on youtube under the channel, Tribute to Don Carson. Carson appeared at Liberty University in a symposium on February 20, 2012, over thirteen years ago. In this video, a faculty member asks Carson about whether it is appropriate to divide over dispensationalism or covenant theology. After a brief, decent and actually surprising […]
Psalm 53 and the Future of Israel
Israel in Psalm 53 This week I was listening to audio of the Psalms, during which time I heard Psalm 53, that says in verses 5-6: 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, […]
The Prevarication of Mark Ward with Wes Huff on the Textus Receptus (part three)
Part One Part Two In the last part of an interview with Mark Ward, Wes Huff asked about Textus Receptus versus Critical Text. Ward went off on a four minute rant that I dissect so far in two parts, where I include a transcript of what He said. I’m going to provide only the […]
The Prevarication of Mark Ward with Wes Huff on the Textus Receptus (part two)
Part One Wes Huff interviewed Mark Ward on his podcast, taking on the subject: “Issues with English Bible Translation.” I’m not going to deal with any aspect of the video except for the subject of the underlying text of the English Bible. Huff brought up the issue and asked Mark Ward a question about it. […]
The Prevarication of Mark Ward with Wes Huff on the Textus Receptus
Mark Ward appeared with Wes Huff on his podcast and deceived the audience about whom he labels, “Textus Receptus Only.” Wes Huff was an accomplice and cooperated with the deception. Neither steelman their opposition. Ward never does. They prevaricate and fool their audience. Never once do they refer to the biblical and historical doctrine of […]
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