The world says: “Follow your heart!” Is that a good idea?
Let’s begin with an answer of “no.” Because God says: “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool…” Proverbs 28:26
Biblically, the heart refers to the inner man, the soul, the mind, will, and emotions.
Chapter 4, Section 2: Bible Critics—Higher and Lower
Which Bible? Which Version? Part 15
We are still presenting some basic information and historical details about the various streams and families of Bible manuscripts.
The following information comes from a classic work called Our Authorized Bible Vindicated by Benjamin Wilkinson, which was published in 1930. I am going to
Chapter 4, Section 1: Perusing Codices A, B, and Aleph—The “Oldest and Best”?
Which Bible? Which Version? Part 14
We are continuing our study of Bible manuscripts since this is fundamental to understanding Bible translations and Bible versions. Today we begin by studying codices A, B, and Aleph.
Those are technical terms, and in our previous chapter, I stated that next we would
Chapter 3, Section 5: Scrutinizing the Text Families
Which Bible? Which Version? Part 13
We have revised the original chart which we had drawn when first presenting these lectures ca. 1995. You will notice several new items shown in red. Readers have commented and wondered about these Bible versions. We had room to add them, and so we
Chapter 3, Section 4: The Four “Families” of Manuscripts
Which Bible? Which Version? Part 12
We are continuing our exposition concerning ancient manuscripts—both secular and biblical. The comparisons and contrasts strengthen the case for the reliability of the Bible as we see the weight which secular scholars give to certain secular documents.
We have mentioned the manuscripts of
Bible Nuggets to Nibble on,…and then to Consume Wholly
Not long ago while I was doing my morning Bible reading/study, I came across this verse:
Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Although we
Chapter 3, Section 3: Textual Criticism of Manuscripts
Which Bible? Which Version? Part 11
Previously, we displayed a chart showing the evolution through history of essentially two streams, branches, or families of Bible manuscripts. We concluded Section 2 of Chapter 3 with these two paragraphs:
Our job is to try to determine if either of these two streams
Which Bible? Which Version? Part 10
For purposes of context and segue, we repeat the last paragraph from Chapter 3, Section 1.
Fortunately, there is one factor in this whole subject of texts and manuscripts that is not disputed by scholars on any side, and which enables us to avoid
This is a podcast you will want to hear. It concerns what is on tap for the next few months, and President Trump’s call for Christians to come to the mall in D. C. on May 17th, for America to rededicate this nation to God Almighty.
When I met
