Kent Brandenburg and Frank Turk Debate on the Preservation of Scripture — Part Three
Introduction to the Debate Part One Part Two by Kent Brandenburg Answer to Question 2 If Mr. Turk looked at his quote of the KJV preface in its context, he would see that the translators were arguing for translation contra Romanism, not approving of poor translations. On the other hand, the KJ translators were linguistic […]
Preparation for the Lord’s Supper, part 2 of 6, from Wilhelmus a Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service
The Practice of the Lord’s Supper Consisting in Preparation, Celebration, and Reflection Everything that is of the greatest benefit to a child of God is most severely attacked by the devil and his cohorts; this is also true of the Lord’s Supper. A heavy cloud of numerous heresies has ascended from the abyss of hell […]
Relationship, pt. 3
Part One, Part Two Relationship originates with God. He is the source and the explication or definer of relationship. Relationship is what God both says it is and what it should be. What matters is what God knows about relationship, not what someone thinks about it. He has missed it if he is happy with his […]
Relationship, pt. 2
Part 1 Happiness isn’t the goal in life and relationships don’t guarantee happiness. I’m not saying that relationships aren’t important. One can argue, and I said this in part one, that we are created by God for relationship — first with Him and then with one another. We should explore what scripture says about relationship […]
The Trip to Europe Continued (Twenty-First Post In Total)
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty I’ve been asked various people whether we saw different spots in Rome, some of which I’ve said, “No.” At this point in our trip, we had been several places in England, then Scotland and Venice. […]
Bart D. Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? Useful Quotes for Christians, part 4 of 4
This is the final post in a series of useful quotes for Christians from Dr. Bart Ehrman’s book Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2012). Posting these quotations is not an endorsement of Dr. Ehrman in general or even of this book in particular, but these quotations are, […]
Refreshing Honesty from “Desiring God” on Men Acting Effeminate
I want to keep up my series on Relationship, having finished part one, and I will, but when I saw this article and then read it, I knew I had to write this instead. I will be coming back to finish the Relationship series, Lord-willing, however. I don’t know how many parts it will be, […]
Relationship, pt. 1
Most often happiness tops the list of what people want. Most say happiness is the result of strong relationships. Without strong relationships, people say they aren’t happy, and they want to be happy more than anything. Even if people want happiness and require strong relationships to be happy, should happiness and strong relationships be the […]
Kent Brandenburg and Frank Turk Debate on the Preservation of Scripture — Part Two
Introduction to the Debate Part One (please reread the end, Mr. Turk’s question answered here) by Kent Brandenburg To Answer Q1 The KJV translators in their preface do not disclose the rectitude of the original language text from which they translate. On a completely different subject, they do comment on the caliber of their translation. […]
Intelligent Design advocate Michael J. Behe’s new book Darwin Devolves with a free video course and other extras by Dr. Behe
Dr. Michael J. Behe, professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University, has written a new book called Darwin Devolves. Dr. Behe is considered the father of the intelligent design movement, and his books Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, do a great job arguing that […]