A Textual Key, and other links

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• A Jaw-Dropping Collection -- “Seguin’s known pecan history includes Native Americans who lived in the Guadalupe River valley and 16th-century Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who survived by eating the river’s native nuts.”
• A Textual Key to the New Testament: A list of Omissions and Changes -- “The list below is a compilation of verses in which the modern versions have followed corrupted manuscripts and made drastic alterations to the traditionally accepted text of the New Testament.”
• Am I a Noisy Gong?—Pastoral Reflections on Love -- “ Of course I needed to handle the text wisely, cling to the truth tightly, and apply the gospel carefully. But what good is it if I did it all without love?”
• Ancient Creedal Evidence and the Longer Reading of I John 5:7 -- “In sum, not only does John relate a tripartite confession or something akin to it but he presents such a confession in a polemical environment.”
• Confessing the Faith: The Place of Confessions in Church Life -- “Here in Europe, Christian principles and virtues are no longer the norm; rather, they are viewed as an aberration.”
• Crucial Questions with Kristin Kobes Du Mez -- “Evangelicals who have been drifting away from biblical fidelity on these issues have often been running under the cover of confusion—confusion about what is essential and what is not essential to the Christian faith.”
• Day of Special Studies at Metropolitan Tabernacle: The War Against An Authentic Biblical Text -- “The advertising wizards of the new translations always proclaim the new version to be meticulously translated from the original Hebrew and Greek – but they do not tell the buyer about the variant renderings that have been adopted.”
• Doktor James White on Fudging His Teaching Assignments by Peter Lumpkins -- “If White does not perceive how his never-ending crusade against other’s credibility is definitively marred by his own apparent lack of concern for forthrightness, then little hope exists his apologetic ministry will have any meaningful future.”
• James White’s public defamation of Theodore Letis -- “In light of Dr. Letis’ critique of White in the back of his book, plus his extensive critique of KJV only advocates, including D. A. Waite and the Dean Burgon Society, [James] White’s listing of Letis as KJV only is the zenith of dishonesty and an expression of the dirtiest of dirty politics...”
• Olympic Athlete Has Blunt Message About America Megan Rapinoe Needs to Hear -- “America is not perfect — no country can be. But the suggestion that it is defined by slavery and racism instead of liberty and justice is disgusting and inaccurate.”
• The Abel Morgans’s Contribution to Baptist Ecclesiology in Colonial America -- “On the final day of Abel Morgan’s ministry at Blaene Gwent, the church had a special meeting during which he proposed several resolutions unanimously agreed upon.”
• The Grand Giver -- “George Washington Brackenridge’s goodwill and generosity continue to enhance life for San Antonio parkgoers and students across Texas.”
• The Revision Committee of 1871-1885 -- “All reports indicate that an “iron rule of silence’ was imposed upon the revisers until the completion of the work.”
• The Same Old, Same Old -- “What determines that it is God’s word? For most of you it is Daniel Wallace or the CBGM or David Parker who let you know what is and is not the New Testament.”
• The Scopes Trial: Examination of William Jennings Bryan by Clarence Darrow -- “Q--Did you ever discover where Cain got his wife? A--No, sir; I leave the agnostics to hunt for her.”
• The Third Worldizing of America -- “Yet both Neistat and Rogen accurately defined Third Worldization: the utter breakdown of the law and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.”
• To Protect Women, Trust the Science on Abortion -- “I take seriously the Hippocratic Oath’s principal demand—primum non nocere—which means ‘first, do no harm.’ Our laws surrounding abortion should do the same. Sadly, they don’t.”
• Why Is James White Still Spreading a Myth? -- “Nevertheless that is exactly what seems to have happened, and White’s contorted version of events has been spread far and wide (with the endorsement of Craig Blomberg and D.A. Carson!) for over two decades.”
• Word of the Year: Vaccine The use of a vaccine that triggers an immune response in an entirely new way required that Merriam-Webster revise and expand its entry for the word, which the company did in May.”