Church Discussion: Baptists and Disciples, and other links

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• Church Discussion: Baptists and Disciples. The Ray and Lucas debate -- “...it is generally conceded, Catholics excepted, that so long as men differ so widely in regard to the commands of our Saviour, the church of Christ, and even the plan of salvation, religious discussion is right and necessary.”
• Cornelius Van Til and the Textus Receptus -- “A few weeks ago, a friend directed my attention to a page from ‘Faith and Action’ in which Dr. R. J. Rushdoony reports that Van Til did eventually apply his apologetic to the field of text criticism and actually changed his position later in life.”
• Example Passages from the NASB 2020 Update -- Some of these are more noteworthy than others, of course. Some are quite odd, like Micah 6.8.”
• I Investigate Drownings — Here Are 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Water Safety -- “My kids know depths of water and how to read them on the pool deck, and they know what it means related to their height.”
• Is the Original Text of the New Testament Lost? Rethinking Our Access to the Autographs -- “But is it really true that we only possess copies of copies of copies? Is there really an enormous gap, as Koester and Ehrman maintain, between the autographs and our earliest copies?”
• Logical Criticisms of Textual Criticism, by Gordon H. Clark -- “Yet [textual criticism’s] importance and ramifications are such that the ordinary worshiper as he sits in church on Sunday mornings, or as he reads his Bible at home, cannot escape its effects.”
• NCAA obliterated 9-0 by Supreme Court of the United States -- “The NCAA got handed a mammoth loss Monday when all nine Supreme Court justices sided with former college players in an ongoing dispute about player compensations.”
• [Re]introducing Edward F. Hills -- “Edward Hills’ definition of the difference between believing and doubting informed his life and was the foundation of his life’s work in defense of the Scriptures as found in the Textus Receptus and the King James Version of the Bible.”
• Supreme Court, in 9-0 Ruling, Says City Can’t Force Catholic Foster Agency to Work with LGBT Couples -- “The justices, in a 9-0 decision, sided with Catholic Social Services, which filed suit after the city terminated a foster care contract due to the agency’s policy of not placing children in the homes of LGBT couples.”
• The Difference Between Original Autographs and Original Texts -- “...this newer and more foundational challenge is not about whether the words of the Bible are true, but whether we have the words of the Bible at all.”
• The King James Version Defended, by E. F. Hills -- “For men who accept the Bible as the Word of God, inerrant in the original manuscripts, it should be out of the question to engage in the textual criticism of the Scriptures in a ‘neutral’ fashion—as if the Bible were not what it claims to be.”
• The Protestant Dogmaticians and the Late Princeton School on the Status of the Sacred Apographa -- “There was a general consensus among the Protestant dogmaticians of the seventeenth century that the απογραφα were inspired and authoritative. This position was a deliberate response to the Council of Trent and the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation theologians.”
• Whites Chapel AME, org. 1907, Tallapoosa County -- “Whites Chapel has collapsed. The old church was in poor condition for quite some time. We are grateful to have been able to document it before it fell so her memory can live on for generations to come.”
• WM 121: Part One: NASB 2020 -- “The NASB is currently being updated for 2020. The NASB NT was published in 1963 and the OT in 1971. It was based the ASV (1901). An updated edition was released in 1995 and new updated edition is planned for 2020.”