New List of Reasons for Maximum Certainty for the New Testament Text (Part 3)

ANSWERING AGAIN THE “WHAT TR?” QUESTION Part One     Part Two 1.  God Inspired Specific, Exact Words, and All of Them. 2.  After God Inspired, Inscripturated, or Gave His Words, All of Them, to His People through His Institutions, He Kept Preserving Each of Them and All of Them According to His Promises of Preservation. […]

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Q, Synoptic Gospel Dependence, and Inspiration for the Bible

Does it matter if one adopts a belief in “Q” and rejects the historic belief that the synoptic gospels–Matthew, Mark, and Luke–are independent accounts? What happens if one rejects this historic belief for the theory, invented by theological liberalism and modernism but adopted by many modern evangelicals, that Mark was the first gospel (instead of […]

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New List of Reasons for Maximum Certainty for the New Testament Text (Part 2)

ANSWERING AGAIN THE “WHAT TR?” QUESTION Part One 1.  God Inspired Specific, Exact Words, and All of Them. 2.  After God Inspired, Inscripturated, or Gave His Words, All of Them, to His People through His Institutions, He Kept Preserving Each of Them and All of Them According to His Promises of Preservation. 3.  God Promised […]

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New List of Reasons for Maximum Certainty for the New Testament Text

ANSWERING AGAIN THE “WHAT TR?” QUESTION Sixty-Six Books Many evangelicals claim maximum certainty on sixty-six books of the Bible.  “Are you certain there are sixty-six books of the BIble?”  “Yes.”  “What verse in the Bible says to expect sixty-six books?”  “None.”  “So what is your basis for sixty-six books of the Bible?”  Many of their […]

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Reformed Systematic Theology v. 1, Joel Beeke & Paul Smalley

I recently finished reading Joel R. Beeke and Paul M. Smalley, Reformed Systematic Theology vol. 1: Revelation and God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019).  I had purchased it on Logos Bible Software and, because I thought it had lots of good features, also purchased a physical copy with Reformation Heritage Books (which may be cheaper than […]

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Normal Now Extreme and Dangerous

Part One Extremism In the first year of living back in Indiana, my wife and I tried fried chicken at two regional, renowned restaurants.  When I say that, get in your mind very homey places like Wagner’s Village Diner in the small town of Oldenburg.  It won the James Beard award in 2023 for its […]

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Assessing the New Appalling Slander of Thomas Ross

Mark Ward Says in a Recent Youtube Video Concerning Thomas Ross:  “I Regard Him as an Extremist of a Particularly Dangerous Kind, the Kind that Is Super Intelligent” Thomas Ross debated James White last year with White arguing in the affirmative the proposition that a new translation, the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB), was superior to […]

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Street Preaching in San Francisco by Ghirardelli Square

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ on the street in San Francisco, near Ghiradelli Square by Fisherman’s Wharf, where one of the cable car lines ends.  (Perhaps by the time this post goes live I will have done it again.)  I had wanted to start engaging […]

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The Index on What Is Truth Is Repaired

Dear User of This Blog Site, Suddenly the links were not working here at What Is Truth (kentbrandenburg.com).  Not only was the index not working because of this, but the internal links in blog posts would not work.  Wow.  That’s tough after all that work.  What did I do?  I started attempting to fix every […]

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The New Rising Hatred Against Israel in the United States

Jews are a relatively small group of people compared to the whole world.  Israel is a tiny, little nation.  They are a couple of gnats landing on a large person.  Proportionally the Jews and Israel receive a very big, gigantic reaction from the rest of the world. Admittedly, I notice the Jews every day even […]

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