Three Modern Myths, 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.

• Twelve Reasons Why Membership Matters -- “It places an individual Christian’s claim to ‘obey’ and ‘follow’ Jesus into a real-life setting where authority is actually exercised over us (see John 14:15; 1 John 2:19; 4:20-21).”
• Three Modern Myths in Interpreting Genesis 1 -- “The popular myth of progress says that, since science gives us more knowledge and more gadgets, we are getting better and better, scientifically and religiously and morally and in our understanding of ourselves and God.”
• Pushing to the Point of Exhaustion -- “Whitefield’s letter writing was squeezed in at all possible moments between his other labors. Yet it was never finished...”
• My Take on the Disappointing Results of Tuesday’s Mid-Term Elections -- “It’s not going to change through elections. People must change in their natures to affect the downward trajectory. That will come only through the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
• Manuscript Comparator -- “This tool allows two or more New Testament manuscript editions to be easily compared in side-by-side and unified views (no original unedited MSS are yet incorporated).”
• Jots & Tittles 11: That Dan Wallace Quote and Another One -- “For Wallace and other modern textual critics, the modern Greek NT is at best a close approximation of the NT, but not a definitive reconstruction of its autograph...”
• Editions of the King James Version and the Criticism of Not Updating It -- “I’m sure someone has made this argument, even though I haven’t heard it. Someone might call the five previous editions of the King James Version an argument for another update. Four editions followed the original 1611. Why no sixth edition? Why did we stop at 1769, the date of the last edition, what is called the Blayney Edition?”
• Dear Pastor . . . Home Is Where You Are Most Loved and Most Needed -- “Bruce Waltke points out that this [Proverbs 31:11] is the only time in the Old Testament where a human being is commended for putting his trust in another human being.”
• BBC One Sherwood: The Nottinghamshire killings which inspired chilling new drama -- “As new BBC fictional crime drama Sherwood is soon to hit our screens, Legal Affairs Correspondent Rebecca Sherdley looks back at two tragic events in Nottinghamshire which inspired the six-part series.”
• A Brief Proof of the Invalidity of All Non-Baptist Baptism -- “Scripture teaches that baptism is immersion as a picture of the believer’s union with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection (Romans 6:3-4), and saving faith is a prerequisite to baptism (Acts 8:36-38).”
• 56 Words That Are Actually Portmanteaus -- “To form a portmanteau, usually the first segment of one word is attached to the final segment of another word. Some portmanteau words are blended in other ways...”
• 10 Frequently Asked Questions about BillionGraves -- “The answers will help you to become a better cemetery photographer, a more efficient data transcriber, and a more effective genealogist!”
• 6 steps to erase your digital footprint and disappear from the internet -- “Thanks to the internet, just about any piece of information you're curious about is at your fingertips. Unfortunately, that includes much of your personal identifying information...”
• 4 Questions about Headship and Head Coverings -- “Thus, we have male and female—equal and interdependent (1 Cor. 11:11–12)—relating to one another within a differentiated order.”