Home » Posts tagged 'textual criticism'
Tag Archives: textual criticism
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 […]
The History of Textual Criticism Supplanting Divine and Perfect Preservation of Scripture
The Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason, empiricism, and skepticism toward traditional authority, gave rise to the naturalistic approach to scripture and modern textual criticism. These challenged transcendental and fideistic views of truth and the belief in the providential, divine, and perfect preservation of scripture. This shift occurred through a convergence of intellectual movements—empiricism, German […]
The Prevarication of Mark Ward with Wes Huff on the Textus Receptus (part three)
Part One Part Two In the last part of an interview with Mark Ward, Wes Huff asked about Textus Receptus versus Critical Text. Ward went off on a four minute rant that I dissect so far in two parts, where I include a transcript of what He said. I’m going to provide only the […]
AI Friday: Who Won the Thomas Ross/James White KJV Debate?
Again, I asked AI the question of the title of today’s post, and here was it’s answer. The debate between Thomas Ross and James White regarding the superiority of the King James Version (KJV) versus the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) was marked by a clear division in perspectives on textual criticism and translation philosophy. Debate […]
Wallace’s Remarkable Erroneous Paper On The Doctrine Of Preservation
Daniel Wallace Certain names represent the biggest evangelical challengers to the biblical and historical doctrine of the preservation of scripture. They have written journal articles or books against preservation of scripture. The Bible version issue starts with scriptural teaching on preservation. When you believe what God said, you come to perfect preservation. Then you have […]
Ruth 3:15: “he” or “she” went into the city? 1611 & 1769 KJV
Ruth 3:15, in the widely-used 1769 revision of the King James Bible, reads: “Also he said, Bring the vail that thou hast upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and she went into the city.” However, the 1611 edition of the […]
Textual Criticism Related to the Bible Bows to Modernity
Christianity is old. There is no new and improved version of it. It is what it started to be. Changing it isn’t a good thing. Let me expand. Modern and Modernity Right now as I implement the term “modern” I am using it in the way it is in the word “modernity” or “modernism.” I […]
The White-Ross Debate: Who Won?
Watch the Debate White and Ross Arguments White’s Presentation In mid-February, James White debated Thomas Ross about which was better, the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) or the King James Version (KJV). White argues with an entirely naturalistic presupposition, saying that only manuscript evidence shows the underlying text of the KJV, the Textus Receptus (TR), is […]
The Error or Falsehood of Balancing the Extremes to Come to the Truth
In my lifetime, I’ve lost things. I found them by searching between two places on the extreme of where I’d been. Some call it retracing your steps. It couldn’t have been somewhere beyond the two places, so I looked in between, somewhere in the middle. In the same way, we do not find or know […]
Recent Comments