Faith is waning, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 1 -- "I confess that God, through a supernatural operation of His Spirit, used holy men to miraculously produce the autographs of the 66 canonical books of the Bible, controlling them in such a manner that the very words, and all of the words, that they recorded were the very words of God Himself."
• About the Johnson Amendment - "Repealing the Johnson Amendment will have no impact upon what my church (or most churches) do. It is an empty gesture."
• Editions of the KJV and the Apocrypha -- "The first printing was in 1611."
• Faith is waning in America? I dissent -- "I’m aware of the rise of the so-called “nones”...Rather than claiming to be Christians, as many have done in years past, now these people are now willing to be more honest."
• Fake Florida doctor who ‘enhanced’ buttocks with cement, caulking gets 10 years for manslaughter -- "On Monday, a judge sentenced Morris to 10 years in prison and five years probation for her crimes."
• KJVToday Language Guide -- "This page is designed to help readers by explaining some of the most essential words and features."
• Quotation Marks -- "The KJV does not have quotation marks because the Hebrew and Greek do not have quotation marks.  If a reader has trouble discerning who the speaker is in the KJV, most likely even professional Bible translators have trouble discerning who the speaker is in the same passage."
• Status of previous editions of the NIV -- "The Committee on Bible Translation (who are solely responsible for the translation of the NIV) and Biblica (the worldwide NIV publisher and copyright holder), have designated the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections as the official repository of historical documents related to the NIV."
• The False Compassion Of Liberalism -- "But government, by its nature, is not compassionate. It can't be. It is nothing other than a force. Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else."
• The Geneva English Bible: The Shocking Truth -- "That ‘shocking truth’ is still kept alive, as is the notion that Geneva Bibles were popularly disliked before 1600, for which there is no evidence."
• What will Methodists do about lesbian bishop? -- "Two groups have formed within the denomination over the issue. The Wesleyan Covenant Association, based in Reynoldsburg, believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman and that single people should be celibate..."
• Why read the Bible in the King James Version? -- "Although there may be different opinions on translation or textual choices (as proposed by these authors), every reading in the KJV can be justified by reasonable alternative theories."
• 7 things that make mosquitoes bite you more -- "...keep in mind that these are preliminary hypotheses, not ironclad conclusions."