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What About the Phrase about Scripture, “Inspired in the Original Manuscripts”?
“Inspired in the Original Manuscripts” In the last few days, I watched on a podcast someone lecture on dispensationalism. While teaching, he used a phrase to describe scripture, “inspired in the original manuscripts.” That phrase does not sit well with me. For one, it is not itself scripture, and, two, it is not the historic […]
Christ’s Genealogies: Eusebius / Africanus on Matthew & Luke
The genealogies in the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke both record the family history of the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew traces the Lord’s genealogy back to Abraham, while Luke traces the geneology back to Adam. Critics have argued that there are insoluble contradictions between the two genealogies. This blog has looked at […]
The Doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture and Translation (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four God Gave Words in their Original Languages and Preserved Them In Scripture Part of the story of the doctrine of inspiration of scripture and then its translation relates to languages. God immediately inspired the original manuscripts of scripture in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. God […]
The Doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture and Translation (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three In the history of Christian doctrine, true believers through the centuries have been in general consistent in their position on inspiration. When reading historical bibliological material, homogeneity exists. Changes emerged with modernism in the 19th century and then many novel, false beliefs sprouted up. In many cases, men invented […]
The Doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture and Translation (Part Three)
Part One Part Two Statements for Consideration Consider these three statements: The King James Version is divinely inspired. God immediately inspired the King James Version. God gave the King James Version by inspiration. Do all three have the same meaning? Are all three true? If not all three are true, then is any one […]
The Doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture and Translation (Part Two)
Part One Support for the KJV We know the King James Version translators (KJVT) in 2 Timothy 3:16 italicized “is” in “is given” because no verb exists in the text of that verse. They gave the verse a smoother reading, but they were also telling the reader that verb did not exist. That’s why they […]
The Doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture and Translation
2 Timothy 3:16 Three Words The classic location for the doctrine of the inspiration of the Bible is in 2 Timothy 3:16. It reads: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. The first part provides the doctrine, which says: “All scripture […]
Modernism Is Not an Acceptable Alternative to Postmodernism: Jordan Peterson
Early Experience with Modernism Growing up in small town Indiana, no one exposed me to modernism. Without anyone telling me, I read the Bible as literal. Everything happened in it just like it read. When I was twelve, my dad took us all off to Bible college in Wisconsin when he was thirty-five years old, […]
Q, Synoptic Gospel Dependence, and Inspiration for the Bible
May 17, 2024 / 10 Comments on 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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