California Appeals Court, and other links

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• California Appeals Court Overturns $300K In Fines Against Church Over COVID Non-Compliance -- “Pastor Mike McClure said following a December hearing. ‘But there’s a bigger law. I have to get told, you follow God or you follow man. I have to follow what God’s word says.’”
• Chapter 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures -- “There is no infallible authority of Church councils or creeds which have the right to teach against those truths most clearly taught by Scripture. The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself.”
• Evangelical Catholicity and How To Foster It -- “Rancor and division abound...Compare that to the New Testament, where the churches regularly greeted one another (Rom. 16:16, 1 Cor. 16:19), shared preachers and missionaries (2 Cor. 8:18, 3 John 5-6), supported one another financially (Rom. 15:25-26, 2 Cor. 8:1-2; 9:12), and prayed for one another (Eph. 6:18).”
• From Innovation to Laughable Derelict: 8-Track Tapes -- “The popularity of the 8-track tape was relatively short from 1968-1975. There were problems...”
• Further Details in Psalm 12:6-7 Elucidating the Preservation of God’s Words -- “When Jesus said that no man shall pluck ‘them’ out of his hand (John 10:28), with a similar understanding of preservation, you could take that as no man shall pluck 93 to 98 percent of them out of his hand.”
• How the Holy Bible Came to Be -- “Can you imagine a humble farmhand knowing the Bible better than an ordained priest? Erasmus did and so did Tyndale. That is why they were so ardent in their efforts to get God’s Word into the hands of God’s people.”
• Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, Habersham County, Georgia, Org. 1906 -- “Mt. Airy Presbyterian is a jewel of a church building located in the North Georgia foothills of Habersham County. It was completed in 1907...”
• Notes on Hermeneutics 3 -- “A different Greek text accounts for thousands of changes in the modern versions. It is shorter than the Reformation Greek text by 2,886 words, which is the equivalent of the omission of the entire books of 1 and 2 Peter.”
• Providential Preservation of Scripture -- “Let us adopt the Christian hypothesis, that the scenes of our Saviour’s life were enacted, and his words spoken, in a given way, and that the several evangelists were inspired of God to record them infallibly...”
• The Lollard Society “...is an international organization of scholars, teachers, and students of the late-medieval Wycliffite reformist movement and its counterpart in Hussite Bohemia, along with a range of related texts, authors, and cultural currents from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.”
• The Lord has Preserved His Word -- “What criterion can the Bible itself suggest for choosing a good version of it? The makings of an answer may be found in what has come to be known as the High Priestly prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ in John 17.”
• The Story of Broken Wharfe -- “The church that met at Broken Wharfe experienced considerable trials during a time of social, political and ecclesiastical unrest.”
• The Who-Is-Nicer or Who-Is-Meaner Argument for the Text of Scripture -- “I wish there was a moratorium on mentioning it. Just leave it alone and continue the debate.”
• Thomas Coke (1747-1814) on I John 5:7 -- “The anti-trinitarian heretic trembles at this passage; it is a thunderstroke to him, of which he well knows the weight...”
• Why Is That Writing Slanted? The Use of Italic Type in the Bible -- “For centuries, those translating the Word of God from the Greek and Hebrew texts have recognised the great responsibility they have in producing accurate versions of the Bible, in which nothing can be added or omitted.
• WM 245: Examining Mark Ward’s Claims on Psalm 12:6-7 and Preservation of Scripture -- “Is it irrational to suggest that the pronouns in v. 7 might be taken in reference to the ‘pure words’ in v. 6?”