What Do the Multiple Version Men Leave Us With? pt. 2
Hopefully, I’ll get back to and then finish the unpopular music series starting next week. In the meantime, I wanted to write one more thing on the multiple version issue that I approached on Monday. ################## Sinaiticus is being questioned based upon extra-scriptural evidence. The debate is extra-scriptural. Did Constantine Simonides forge the manuscript? There is […]
What Do the Multiple Version Men Leave Us With?
If I were to rank the recent stir-ups that related to the Bible, as to national interest, they would be the following: (1) Duck Dynasty Phil Robertson’s homosexuality comments, (2) John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference, (3) NCFIC Holy Hip-Hop panel discussion, and (4) Mark Driscoll charged with plagiarism for several of his books. If I […]
How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 4
Irenaeus, who probably wrote his Against Heresies between A. D. 180-185,[i] while discussing the reading “666” concerning the mark of the beast and the presence of a variant reading of “616,”[ii] stated: 1. Such, then, being the state of the case, and this number being found in all the most approved and ancient copies [of […]
What the Worship War or Music Issue Really Is About
I’ve been talking about the music/worship issue here for quite a few posts, and will continue next week, Lord-willing. We can go back and forth about how someone judges what is wrong and right, or whether someone can even judge what is wrong and right, but ultimately that’s not what this is all about. In […]
Not Ducking the Homosexual Issue
To get a certain disclaimer out of the way, I’ve never seen a Duck Dynasty, so I’m not a fanboy. I’m not even interested in watching. I do have a beard, so perhaps there is a latent follicle prejudice. However, I do watch clips from news shows on Real Clear Politics. I’ve done that for […]
The Encyclopaedia Britannica on Christmas
Have you ever looked at the development of the Christmas festival? It is interesting and thought-provoking. I have reproduced below the article from the Encyclopaedia Britannica on Christmas so you can get a sense of what mainline historical scholarship says on the subject. The article mentions that one needs to read about the development of […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 10
This link has links to parts 1-7, and the last two days are 8 and 9. I’m going to get straight to it, but let’s review again. One, we are to prove all things (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Two, music has meaning. Three, as an addendum to two — since music is a means of communication, […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 9
Go to last post, part 8, to get links to 1-7. Awhile back, I read the following from none other than Leonard Bernstein: [F]or some people music and melody are the same thing. It’s the whole meal so to speak: when you think of music, you think of melody right away — melody: music. And […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 8
Parts One, Two, Three (links to other posts on it), Four, Five, Six, Seven Unlike some speculation that the readership here has shrunk, it has only grown every year and every month — sometimes less comments, but growing readership. However, the statistics show that this series is less popular, belying any theory that I write […]
How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 3
IV. General Considerations Concerning Patristic Testimony Patristic testimony, although it has limitations, provides contemporary information about early Christian history, and consequently has definite value in the study of events of its era. A Christian writer who lived not long after the composition of the gospels would be more likely to advance correct theories about […]