Now, says Jesus, is the judgment of this world. Which one? There are two. There is the world that is God’s and the world that is man’s. The two of them from the beginning have been on a collision course. There is enmity there, God put it there (Genesis 3:15). There is the world that …
The Legacy of Modernism!
"The legacy of modernism has signalled to the modern culture the loss of consensus and the absence of timeless transcendence, qualities the church alone is able to cultivate and retain. In the wake of this, all that seems to be left is ever-growing secularity and public cynicism toward a religion ever in adjustment, never at …
On the Word Inerrancy!
Inerrancy: Meaning and Usage. Arthur Carl Piepkorn produced a terribly useful study of the history of this term back in 1965 ("What Does the Word Inerrancy Mean"? Sept 1965). He pointed out that the word was nowhere to be found in the Confessional literature of the dogmatic tradition of the Lutheran Church. A survey of …
Spurgeon: Where Shall We Find Infallibility?
This is from the last sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached to pastors. For a while Spurgeon had drifted into using the English Revised Version. But then he came to a realization, and he preached this sermon. “Believe in the inspiration of Scripture, and believe it in the most intense sense …. If this book be not …
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What Authority Do You Trust to Give You the Bible?
BB Warfield as well as being an evolutionist introduced to Princeton Seminary biblical text criticism. He did so inspired by Westcott and Hort, who were equally inspired by the German higher critic, Griesbach. Warfield altered his interpretation of the Westminster Confession (1:8) regarding the preservation of the biblical text. He advocated a meaning the Confession …
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Warfield’s Legacy!
The Westminster Confession of Faith's confession regarding holy scripture as being divinely inspired refers to the apographa (copies), not just the autographa (originals). That is what the Westminster divines meant by their confession. Now the moderns, of course, interpret this entirely differently, they say the divines meant only the originals were inspired. For the seed …
Textual Criticism Sucks!
"The text is changing. Every time that I make an edition of the Greek New Testament, or anybody does, we change the wording. We are maybe trying to get back to the oldest possible form but, paradoxically, we are creating a new one. Every translation is different, every reading is different, and although there’s been …
