Agros Church Interviews Pastor Truelove, and other links

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• Agros Church Interviews Pastor Truelove on the Text and Canon Conference -- “Coming to the Received Text was a bit of a journey...”
• Are Older Manuscripts More Reliable? -- “The fallacy of NA/UBS editors is the supposition that they alone in history have attempted and succeeded in identifying early readings.”
• Bardin and Marsee Publishing Waterproof Bibles -- “As believers in Jesus Christ with a love to be in God’s creation and exposed to the elements, we desired to have a Bible by our side for reading.”
• Christian Standards of Dress -- “If the fine linen represents the righteousness of the saints in Christ, should not our fleshly reality conform to this spiritual reality?”
• DeSantis Spokeswoman Reveals How AOC’s Florida Trip Is Something Even Worse Than Hypocrisy -- “AOC’s behavior is not hypocrisy — it is HIERARCHY. By openly flouting the same rules that she pushes on her constituents, she is signaling that she is powerful and does not have to abide by the same restrictions as the peasants.”
• Don’t go on Safari with a New KJV Translator -- “It should be obvious that the NKJV is not just ‘updating archaic words’ in an effort to be more accurate, but is rather introducing thousands of unnecessary word changes just to be different.”
• Don’t Speak Up: On the Spiritual Discipline of Silence -- “Yet it’s worth spending a moment on the flip side of the coin. There is a time for Christians not to speak.”
• Equitable Eclecticism -- “An alternative is Equitable Eclecticism, in which the relative intrinsic qualities of rival variants are considered, and each variant’s sources, their date, and their scope are also considered.” (James Snapp’s view)
• Lockdown Policies and Mask Mandates Linked With Lower IQ in Children -- “Dr. Mark McDonald cited an Aug. 11 study by Brown University which found that ‘children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.’”
• Mark Ward the Conspiracy Theorist -- “...it’s entertaining to note that modern scholars praise their modern versions while at the same time commenting on the fact that they aren’t good enough to stay the same for more than a decade or good enough to be read in isolation.”
• Pragmatism, Playing Games, and “Recovering from Fundamentalism” -- “From my observation and many others’, IFB has been steeped in pragmatism. They’ve used gimmicks or carnal means to attract crowds.”
• Ranking the Worst Things Happening In a Given Year -- “Those are the worst of 2021. Natural disasters, pandemics, and political issues can’t compare with the spiritual and eternal ones.”
• Rehabilitating the Quadriga -- Not a recommendation of agreement, but a recommendation of explanation of the quadriga. Peter Leithart is or was a minister in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
• The Best Defense of the Bible is the Bible -- “When one’s faith depends upon the veracity of the academic and not upon the Bible alone, one is building upon sand.”
• The Truths We Dared Not Speak in 2021 -- “...the idea of a ‘President Harris’ who is not non compos mentis apparently is more frightening to the public than keeping Joe Biden who is non compos mentis.”
• What Is Sacha Inchi? Uses, Benefits, Side Effects, and Forms -- “You can enjoy roasted sacha inchi seeds in recipes or as a snack, find the ground seeds in protein powders, use the leaves to make herbal tea, and apply the oil to your skin or drizzle it over dishes like salads or pasta.”
• Where Are All the Heretical Bishops in the Second Century? -- “... it was common for leaders to be elected by their local congregations. Thus, we have every reason to think that these many bishops, and the beliefs that they held, are a reasonably accurate representation of the Christian constituencies they served.”
• Which Textus Receptus? -- “Some people hold out the question ‘Which TR?’ to Received Text advocates as if a definitive answer is needed or it is a deal breaker for the position.”
• Why Isn’t Clinton a Witness in Maxwell Trial? Flight Docs Show He Flew on Epstein Jet 26 Times in 2 Years -- “Sexually exploiting minors is a heinous crime. The perpetrators of these acts forever destroy the hopes and dreams of their victims.”
• Why Preaching Is Primary and the Ordinances Aren’t -- “the preaching of the Word of God must always have priority over the ordinances...signs only have meaning when accompanied by words which explain them.”
• Why the Story of the Woman Caught in Adultery Belongs in the Bible -- “Not only conservatives but also clear thinking radical scholars have perceived that the historical evidence favors the belief that the pericope de adultera was deleted from the text of the fourth Gospel rather than added to it.”
• Worship: Ancient Church Strategy to Stir Up Love & Good Deeds -- “Church is not supposed to be a spectator’s sport!”