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Monday, December 19, 2022

A Biblical View, 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 Biblical View of Church History -- “I need to interject here, as the title of this article reflects, I am not talking about a Protestant view of Church History vs. a Catholic view—I am talking about a biblical view.”
  • CDC knew COVID vax associated with myocarditis but left off post-vax surveys -- “Data released under court order shows 1 in 3 among earliest populations to get vaccinated reported needing medical care, missing school or work, or inability to ‘perform normal daily activities.’ CDC still fighting to keep v-safe ‘free-text field data’ secret.”
  • Fredericksburg Cast Iron Co. -- “Leveraging our Texas-German heritage from the heart of the Hill Country, Fredericksburg Cast Iron Co. produces heavy duty cast-iron cookware that is 100% made in Texas.”
  • Kisatchie Wold -- “A large sandstone ridge which extends from the Mississippi River floodplain to the Rio Grande valley, roughly paralleling the Gulf of Mexico.”
  • Living Between Two Worlds -- “Daniel stands on the crossroads between two disparate worlds. Behind him he casts his mind’s eye to the holy city, the source of his identity and citizenship.”
  • Martyn Lloyd-Jones vs. Expressive Individualism -- “The clip below is cued up to an excerpt near the end where Bakewell asks Lloyd-Jones about what we now call expressive individualism.”
  • Parisa: A Medina County Delicacy -- “If it looks like raw hamburger meat to you, you are close. But you are also so, so far.”
  • Responding to the Present Alarm -- “The alarm is blaring. Men hit snooze, some cover their ears, others panic, aimlessly running around with anxiety. The alarm continues.”
  • The Geneva Bible and Authorised Version Compared 1 -- “...the sharp contrast drawn between the Geneva and the Authorised Version is overdrawn. Such is their close similarity that it makes more sense to compare rather than contrast them.”
  • The Geneva Bible and Authorised Version Compared 2 -- “Scholarship in the Hebrew and Greek languages had come to their highest point since the recovery of this knowledge at the time of the Renaissance.”
  • The Geneva Bible and Authorised Version Compared 3 -- “There is every reason to believe that the AV raised the bar for translation yet higher and, as they expressed it themselves, made a very good translation even better.”
  • The Legacy of the First Revised Bible Translations -- “Several ancient Jewish revisions of the Septuagint have names associated with them. Most famous among them are “the Three”: Theodotion (post 30 AD), Aquila (ca. 130 AD), and Symmachus (ca. 200 AD).”
  • The Trial of the Century -- “John Scopes was the football coach but occasionally filled in for members of the teaching staff at the local high school. He had recently substituted for the biology teacher.”
  • Why do Mormons use the KJV? -- “There are two main reasons that the Mormon church utilizes and endorses only the King James Version. The first is that at the time of the organization of the church in 1830, the King James or Authorized Version was accepted as the authoritative Bible among English speaking people.”

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