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The Destructive Practice of Treating Biblical Truth as Less Than the Truth (Part Two)
Part One Faith and “The Truth” An aspect of diminishing biblical truth, so that it is not “the truth” anymore relates to the biblical doctrine of faith. Knowledge or wisdom gained by faith is less than the truth according to empiricism, which says that access to knowledge comes through the human senses. If you can’t […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Seven)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six The quotations for this series rate as worth two or three times the gargantuan amount already provided, because they represent what biblical theologians, pastors, and churches thought and believed. Even if men are going to claim those confessions […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Six)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five In 1743, Benjamin Franklin — yes, that Benjamin Franklin, a printer — printed the first edition of the Philadelphia Baptist Confession (PBC) of Faith. It essentially embraced still the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession, except adding two articles to that London […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four The views on the preservation of scripture in 1.8 of the Westminster Confession of Faith didn’t start there. They represented the historic doctrine of preservation. It didn’t stop there either. Chapter one of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith on the “Holy Scriptures” […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three Westminster Confession of Faith 1.8 in the section on the Holy Scriptures reads: The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which, at the time of the writing of it, was most […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly (Part Two)
Part One Cherry Picking Quotes Instead of Showing Direct Evidence Zachary Cole apparently presented his paper, “Providential Preservation of Scripture and Textual Criticism in the Sermons of Westminster Divines” (68.3 (2025): 405–23), in a late 2025 edition of JETS at a recent meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. I don’t want to misrepresent him. His […]
Textual Variants, Preservation of Scripture, and the Westminster Assembly
True doctrine comes from scripture. It doesn’t come from consensus and so-called science. The first question about the correct position on the preservation of the Bible should be, “What does the Bible say about its own preservation?” Armed with what God’s Word says about itself, one considers all related materials. Through history men made errors […]
What Is the “False Doctrine” of Only One Text of the Bible? (Part Five)
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four So, no apology is necessary for saying there’s one Bible. Why? There’s one Bible. Is that Bible the King James Version? It is the underlying text. I recently heard someone say, the underlying text for the King James Version text didn’t happen until 1881. […]
AI Friday: “Did God Perfectly Preserve Every Word of the Bible?”
I asked Artificial Intelligence this question: “Did God perfectly preserve every word of the Bible?” It answered with the following. Understanding the Doctrine of Preservation The doctrine of preservation is a crucial aspect of Christian theology, which asserts that God has perfectly preserved every word of the Bible. This doctrine is rooted in the Bible […]
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