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May
2015
1611 KJV Discovered
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When the King James Version was published in 1611, there were actually two printed editions, with 450 variations in the biblical text (Norton, Textual History of the King James Bible, 173–79). These are commonly called the “He” and “She” Bibles, from their respective readings in Ruth 3:15 (“he went into the city” and “she went into the... Read More
30
May
2015
Justification and Sanctification
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Guy Waters has an excellent summary of justification and sanctification over at the Ligonier Blog.
28
May
2015
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 4b)
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A second received law of language that may be deduced from common usage is the Jurisdiction of Authorial Intent. I proposed last week that a text can have but one signification in any given context; this week I suggest further that the sole arbiter of that signification is its author. This seminal axiom of language is... Read More
23
May
2015
Book Giveaway: Winner
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Jonathan Cook, youth pastor at First Baptist Community Church in Monte Sereno, California, won the book giveaway.
21
May
2015
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 4a)
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We come now to the heart of this series, viz., a discovery of the “received laws of language” that we as humans unconsciously use every day as we engage in ordinary communication with one another. The material here is not new with me, but rather is a distillation of an article published in 2002 by Rolland... Read More
18
May
2015
Book Giveaway and Some Summer Reading
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In a few days, we’re going to give away a couple of books to one of our readers. The books we are giving away are Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy and Four Views on the Historical Adam, both in the Counterpoints series published by Zondervan. In order to enter the drawing for these books, you... Read More
15
May
2015
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 3)
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This blog post is fairly ambitious, seeking to answer two questions: How can we prove the existence of universally “received laws of language”? And, assuming they exist, Who gets to decide what those laws are in the absence of an explicit biblical statement of those laws? My answer to the first question may seem a... Read More
8
May
2015
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 2)
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When evaluating the truth or error of any proposed theological statement or system, there are two primary questions that the theologian asks: the question of correspondence and the question of coherence. In using these two terms, I am using two recognized philosophical categories, but not necessarily as all users would define them. In suggesting that... Read More
6
May
2015
Adoniram Judson and the Question of Baptism
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century the country of Burma was almost 100% Buddhist, but such is no longer the case. According to the 2010 edition of Operation World, Burma (now called Myanmar) currently contains a sizeable minority of Christians including about 1.7 million Baptists, making Baptists the largest Protestant denomination in the country.... Read More
4
May
2015
Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal
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If you notice the header of this blog, you will see a tab marked “Journal,” which if selected will take you to the web page for our seminary journal. Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal began in 1996 and is published annually in the fall of the year. At the web page you will find the table of contents for all the... Read More