A Declaration, 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 Declaration of My Own Position on the Inspiration and Preservation of Holy Scripture, by Thomas Daniel Ross -- “All of the above is the faith in the inspiration and preservation of Scripture I believe and confess with my whole mind and heart. Unless convinced otherwise by the Scriptures, I will continue to believe and confess this faith, by the enabling grace of God, until Christ’s return or my death.”
• Act Like Men, Not Like Girls -- “If I said to someone, ‘Act like a man,’ how would he know how to do that?”
• Americans growing less religious and more strictly religious at the same time -- “In the current sociology of American religion, there are two trends moving in opposite directions.”
• Background of Chiasms -- “Several European publications in the 1700s and 1800s discussed the symmetric arrangement of Scripture, the most notable being John Jebb and Thomas Boys.”
• CB Roundtable # 3: Pooyan Mehrshahi on The Textus Receptus and Apologetics -- “A presentation made on May 26, 2020 for the Confessional Bibliology Facebook group.”
• Government Panel: 26-Year-Olds Death Probably Due to Pfizer COVID Vaccine -- “However, we are awaiting further studies to better understand the long-term outcomes of patients who have had COVID-19 vaccination-related myocarditis.”
• Griffith Switch: another Texas town of memories -- “This past September I decided to see if I could find Griffith Switch again. After turning onto FM 2258, I went slow, looking everything over closely.”
• How John Madden befriended Andy Reid and helped guide him to the Chiefs job -- “...Reid spoke of how important Madden’s words of encouragement were to him as a young coach — including when Reid’s teams kept falling just short of the Super Bowl...”
• ‘It’s Not An Either/Or’: Fauci Suggests Masks Are Forever, Vaccinated Or Unvaccinated -- “You said earlier this week that if you are vaccinated, you should feel comfortable traveling and celebrating the holidays with your family. Do you still believe that?”
• Jesus Despises Your Virtue Signaling -- “Let us seriously put the question to ourselves. Are you merely virtue signaling Jesus or are you willing to die for Him?”
• KJV Parallel Bible.org -- “This site is intended to include as little interpretation as possible; it presents the facts of textual disagreement between the TR and the critical text in a way that proponents of both can agree on.”
• Marcion: The Wolf of Pontus -- “There was the good God, the Father of Jesus Christ, who created heaven and the spiritual realm, and there was the evil god, the Demiurgos who created the physical world and the physical bodies that experience pain and suffering.”
• Oglethorpe Baptist - Org. 1847, Macon County -- “Oglethorpe Baptist was initially organized in the village of Hamburg in 1847 but was moved to Oglethorpe in anticipation of the railroad that was completed there in 1851.”
• Pseudepigraphy & Pseudonymity: Do You Know What They Are? -- “Despite the fact that this was a common practice in the ancient world, there is absolutely no evidence that the early church ever knowingly accepted a pseudonymous document as authoritative.”
• Pre-Enlightenment Textual Criticism -- “In the 4 points below, we have a brief argument from Edward Leigh written in 1646 defending the authenticity of the doxology in the Lord’s Prayer in the Gospel of Matthew.”
• The Antiquity of the Hebrew Language, Letters, Vowels, and Accents, by John Gill -- “A highly technical dissertation of John Gill addressing the question of the originality of vowel points in the Hebrew text.”
• The Diversity Within the TR Camp -- “In this article, I want to highlight two major camps within ‘the’ TR position as it pertains to the underlying Greek and Hebrew.”
• The Doctrine of Separation -- “Some people have correct doctrines but have poor practices and are fractious, contentious, and disturb the peace and well-being of the body of Christ by their contention or by introducing harmful practices.”
• The Final Resting Places of Three Famous Authors -- “Williams Shakespeare’s funerary monument at Trinity Church was carved out of pale blue limestone. His likeness is holding a quill pen in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.”
• WM 146: Text and Academy: Mormon Editor for the OT? -- “...I am bothered by the fact that a Mormon is a now a gate-keeper for the text of the OT that will be studied and translated and read and preached by otherwise orthodox Christians who make use of modern Bible translations.”