As the Confessional Bibliology Facebook Group is a confessional group affirming the original intent of WCF/2LBCF 1.8 we have the following in our pinned post from Dr. Garnet Milne’s Has the Bible Been Kept Pure in All Ages? A preserved purity Finally, the divines also …
Why New Testament Textual Criticism Can Never Arrive at Truth
RTC as a Thought Experiment So let’s pretend we have completed such an experiment. We begin our experiment by printing off a copy of the book of Matthew. This printed copy (autograph) is then given to 10 people to copy by hand. Each of …
William Whitaker on the Canon – Part 2
CHAPTER IV. WHEREIN THE ARGUMENT OF THE ADVERSARIES IS PROPOSED AND CONFUTED. Having now premised a brief explanation of these matters, we will come to the discussion of the cause and question proposed. And first, we shall have to treat of the six entire books, …
William Whitaker on the Canon – Part 1
THE FIRST CONTROVERSY. QUESTION I. CHAPTER I. WHEREIN THIS WHOLE CONTROVERSY IS DISTRIBUTED INTO ITS PARTICULAR QUESTIONS. We will lay the foundation of this controvery in those words of Christ which are to be found in the fifth chapter of St John’s Gospel at the …
The Doctrine Relating to Canon – Part 1
THE DOCTRINE RELATING TO THE CANON. The doctrine which concerns the canon of Scripture is this that God himself has made Himself its guarantee, that His almighty providence is engaged for the preservation of this sacred deposit, that He has guarded, now guards, and will …
Kruger, White, & Lovecraft Walk Into a Bar
Kruger, White, & Lovecraft Walk Into a Bar At the recent G3 conference in Georgia, Dr. Michael Kruger & Mr. James White had a discussion on the Doctrine of the Canon*. The first part of the discussion was actually quite profitable, apart from Mr. White …
Robert Rollock – Whether the Scripture be the Word of God
THE NUMBER OF THE CONTROVERSIES WHICH ARE CONCERNING THE WRITTEN WORD : AND OF THE FIRST CONTROVERSY, WHETHER THE SCRIPTURE BE THE WORD OF GOD. There be two kinds of controversies concerning the holy Scripture. The first kind is of such controversies as be more …
Bullinger’s Sermon on the Word of God
Of The Word Of God; The Cause Of It; And How, And By Whom, It Was Revealed To The World. THE FIRST SERMON. LL the decrees of Christian faith, with every way how to live rightly, well, and holily, and finally, all true and heavenly …
James White, Inconsistency, & Lying
##UPDATE#1 (26DEC2017): Mr. White has on his FB page challenged my assertion of his conclusion in the video. I’ll be listening to the podcast again and will more explicitly lay out either why the 4th point is valid or if I feel he is correct …
Are You a KJVO?
From time to time as one who holds to the Confessional (Biblical) Textual View you will be asked, Are You a KJVO? The very asking of this question when we are arguing not about a translation, but about which Greek & Hebrew texts the Scripture …
Providentially Preserved?
Within Christendom there are two opposing views concerning the intent of the phrase by His [God’s] singular care and providence, [the Scriptures are] kept pure in all ages. Does it refer to a generic preservation that doesn’t guarantee textual purity throughout the historic life of God’s …
The Genuineness of 1 John 5.7 by David Martin 2.7
CHAP. VII. Of the Manuscript of Berlin. ‘Tis here no longer that same Mr. Emlyn, who has been silent with regard to the Manuscripts mention’d in the Preface to the Louvain doctors, and that which F. Amelette affirm’d he saw at Rome; ’tis quite another thing …