A Sniff Test, 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 Sniff Test for the History of Preservation of Scripture -- “One thing for sure I can’t swallow is this idea that the historic understanding of the church about preservation is that the Bible has errors in it. It doesn’t pass the sniff test.”
• Beth Moore leaves Southern Baptist denomination -- “A New York Times bestselling author, Moore said she has also ended her publishing deal with Lifeway Christian Resources, though it will continue to sell her books.”
• Bible Translation — the “Only One Way to Translate” Fallacy -- “Both are given by the Holy Spirit, both are attributed to Christ, and both have direct divine sanction as legitimate Greek translations of Deuteronomy 6:5.”
• Biden’s scary, boring, and bizarre address to the nation -- “Despite the teleprompter, it wandered hither and yon, without ever touching clearly on a single point.”
• Cancel Culture: Its Origins and Implications for America -- “A young Cambodian woman looks at the main stupa in Choeung Ek Killing Fields, which is filled with thousands of skulls of those killed during the Pol Pot regime in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Aug. 6, 2014.”
• Conservative United Methodists Plan Breakaway Denomination -- “The new Global Methodist Church will leave the UMC regardless of the General Conference decision, which has been delayed until 2022.”
• Creeds and Confessions: Biblical and Beneficial -- “We also encounter many creeds and confessions throughout the New Testament, as the coming of the Son of God in human flesh prompted the people of God to give fuller expression to their beliefs.”
• Fundamentalism and the King James Version -- “Bauder claimed the NIV ‘was welcomed as a faithful yet readable alternative, even by many people within fundamentalism.’ Bauder presented no proof of even one fundamentalist church or institution which adopted the NIV as its official translation.”
• Hill Country Empire -- “One of the ambitious early settlers was Charles Armand Schreiner, who established a store in 1869 and methodically built a sprawling operation that covered half a million acres with the fabled YO Ranch.”
• House Democrats Pass Bill to Create “Right” to Kill Babies in Abortions, Force Americans to Fund Them -- “If enacted, H.R. 5 would open the door for widespread litigation wherein any attempt to restrict abortion, including the funding of abortion, would constitute discrimination.”
• Is the Name “Easter” of Pagan Origin? -- “Misconception: The church borrowed the name Easter from pagans.”
• Judge in ACLJ FOIA Case Orders Deep State To Produce for Court Review Jen Psaki Email Regarding Secret Obama-Biden Admin Meetings with Iran -- “We received definitive evidence that the Obama-Biden Administration intentionally manipulated the public video record of a press briefing – having deleted an incriminating portion in which it admitted deceiving the American people about the Iran nuclear negotiations.”
• Luther’s Translation of the Bible -- “Among his many contributions to the church, Luther also transformed and ennobled the German language through his translation of the Bible.”
• SBC Executive Committee disfellowships four churches -- “The EC decisions came during an executive session today (Feb. 23), following the recommendations of the SBC Credentials Committee.”
• Surgeon Destroys Myth: ‘If Masks Don’t Work, Why Do Surgeons Wear Them?’ -- “If a surgeon were sick, especially with a viral infection, they would not perform surgery as they know the virus would NOT be stopped by their surgical mask.”
• The Actual History of King James Onlyism -- Very interesting about the history that Bauder and Combs present is that they contradict each other...But KJO really is a corollary position to OBO, that is, one Bible only.”
• The Lie about the History of One Bible Onlyism -- “The idea that there is more than one Bible is really the new belief. It began to make way for textual criticism in the late 1800s.”
• The Story of My Life Or More Than a Half Century As I Have Lived It and Seen It Lived, by George Clark Rankin -- “My father, in religion, was a Presbyterian, and a member of that denomination. However, he was not a devoutly religious man, but a very respectable communicant of the Church.”
• Why I’m not “King James Only” Even Though I Use the KJV -- “As suggested above, there is a wide disparity of belief among those who take the KJVO label. For myself, I choose not to take it because I believe it will lead many to think I teach some of the errors described above.”
• Why the KJV New Testament Is Among the Best English Translations (Part One) -- “I wish to stress that no one should imagine that after Erasmus produced his Greek text in 1516, the next important event happened in 1611 when the KJV-translators finished translating it into English.”
• Why the KJV New Testament Is Among the Best English Translations (Part Two) -- “Luke 22:43-44 is attested by Justin Martyr and other writers in the 100’s, but this early testimony is dismissed on highly speculative grounds.”
• Wounded—Then Rejected -- “The first casualty of the Texas Revolution, a free Black man, had to fight for his residency in the new republic.”