WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC: SCRIPTURE

WHAT IS TRUTH, INDEX BY SPECIFIC TOPIC (as of January 2019)

All Articles and Essays Written by Kent Brandenburg unless otherwise Noted
(J) for Jackhammer article [all of my articles from Aug 2006 to Feb 2011]
(T) for Thomas Ross article

SCRIPTURE

Scripture

The Bible and Circular Reasoning

Brainwashed Bibliology

A Case Study in the Practical Consequences of Evangelical Bibliology

Certain Unscriptural Positions of Bibliology Worth Separating Over: Considering Mark Ward's Call to Separation at FBFI

Comparative: Amending the U. S. Constitution and Amending the Bible

A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 1

A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 2

A Confession of Faith on the Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture, part 3
Daniel Wallace and Bart Ehrman: We Don't Really Know For Sure

Ehrman-White Debate

Evidence that the Bible and Christianity Are Not Scientific

First Impressions of the Ehrman-White Debate

God does NOT speak through the Bible (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 1 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 2 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 3 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 4 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 5 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 6 (T)

How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 7 (T)

Is Being a Believer, Believing Scripture about Scripture?

The Jackhammer (J)

Liar, Liar....James White and AOM

The Means By Which God Does Talk Today

An Obvious Bibliological Contradiction: Canon -- Theological, Text -- "Scientific"

Proof that the Bible is the Word of God from the Book of Daniel (T)

The Septuagint (LXX) Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11: Corrupt and Indefensible

The Swinging Scripturalists (J)

Theistic or Divine Correction to the Man-Centered Trajectory of Modern Bibliology

Thus Probably or Possibly Saith the Lord: The Ehrman-Wallace Debate

Scripture:  Application

Are Passages on Old Testament Strangers A Legitimate Basis for Taking Refugees into the Country?

Convenient Use of Scripture

David's Killer Census as a Paradigm for Applying Scripture

The Destructive Charge of “Legalism” Pinned on Rightful Application of Scripture pt. 1 (J)

The Destructive Charge of “Legalism” Pinned on Rightful Application of Scripture pt. 2 (J)

Exploring Unacceptable Degrees of Normativeness of the Book of Acts

How Biblical Change Looks When It Happens -- And the Opposite

Is It Gospel Centered to Ignore or Disparage Cultural Applications of Scripture?

A Paradigm for Taking a Biblical Position that Makes Sense of Everything God Says In the Bible

The Modern Fear or At Least Repulsion of Applying Scripture

Scripture:  Authority

The Bible and Circular Reasoning

The Bible As Scientific Challenge to Climate Change Speculation

The Earliest Portions of the Hebrew Bible: the Ketef Hinnom Silver Scrolls (T)

How Is the Bible the Sole Authority for Faith and Practice?

How Is the Bible the Sole Authority for Faith and Practice? pt. 2

A Primer on the Two Book Approach: Rejection of Sola Scriptura

Should Naturalistic Explanations Overrule Scriptural Ones?

The Two Book Approach and English Separatism

Scripture:  Canonicity

Canonicity: How Does It Work?

Hearing Voices: Extra-Canonical Fallacies (Including James White)

Is the Canon Really The Most Major Issue in Dealing with Roman Catholics?

The Gospel of Judas

Testimonium Spiritus Sancti Internum

Scripture:  Inerrancy

Bock and Wallace, Reliability of the New Testament

The Idea of the Inerrancy of Scripture

Obvious Disconnects for Evangelicals and Inerrancy

A SAFE PLACE: Biblical Inerrancy and Perfect Preservation

The Septuagint (LXX) Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11: Corrupt and Indefensible

Summit on Inerrancy: Not a Consistent, Therefore, Christian Worldview

Those Who Deny Warfieldian Inerrancy

The Truth about a Few Key Questions on the History of the Doctrine of Inerrancy

Scripture:  Inspiration

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 1

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 2

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 3

Are Accurate Copies and Translations of Scripture-Such as the KJV-Inspired? A Study of 2 Timothy 3:16, part 4

Inspiration: How and What?

Scripture:  Interpretation

Case Study in the Rise of a False Doctrine or Misinterpretation of Scripture: Preservation Passages

The Historic Christian Response of Presuppositionalism to Biblical Criticism: Classic Harmonization

How to Come to Positions on Issues (link to sermon by Kent Brandenburg)

The Interpretation of Trump's Travel Ban and the Interpretation of Scripture

Keswick and Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Experience Over Grammatical Exegesis

The Malleability of Old Testament Narratives

A Paradigm for Taking a Biblical Position that Makes Sense of Everything God Says In the Bible

Reconstruction or Liberation

Was the Church Wrong about the Meaning of Verbs in Scripture?

Woke: Evangelical Rift Caused or Influenced by Seismic False System of Interpretation of Scripture

You Might Need to Study More! (Bobby Mitchell)

Scripture:  Perspecuity

Big and Ambiguous

Hard to Be Understood

Perspecuity and an Emerging Corollary

The Self-Centered Hypocrisy of Nuance

Unclear

Scripture:  Preservation

A Sniff Test on the Preservation of Scripture

The Actual History of King James Onlyism

Answering Aaron Again on the Doctrine of Preservation of Scripture

Answering Aaron on the Doctrine of Preservation---Part Two

Aaron on TSKT, part three ---- Introduction

Aaron on TSKT, part four

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part one

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part two

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part three

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part four

Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part five

Answering the TR (Textus Receptus), Perfect Preservation of Scripture Question. One More Time.

Answers to Questions about the Doctrine of Preservation of Scripture

Any Fault in Fideism

Assessing Comments on Thou Shalt Keep Them

Assessing Comments on Thou Shalt Keep Them, part two

Baptist Confessions and the Preservation of Scripture: A Video

Can We Separate a Miracle of Inspiration from a Miracle of Preservation?

Case Study in the Rise of a False Doctrine or Misinterpretation of Scripture: Preservation Passages

Certainty or Uncertainty: Perfect Preservation or Multiple Versions (J)

Churches: The “How” of Perfect Preservation (J)

Commentary on the Steven Anderson--James White Interview, part one

Commentary on the Steven Anderson--James White Interview, part two

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part One)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Two)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Three)

Criticizing Professor Wallace (Part Four)

Debate on the Preservation of Scripture

The Doctrine of the Preservation of Scripture and the Idea of Acceptable Multiple Versions of Scripture

Does DBTS Theological Journal Present a Biblical Theology of Preservation?

Eclectic, Critical Text, and MVO on Truth Serum (J)

Editions of the TR Argument and Excellent Preservation Versus Perfect Preservation

The Embarrassing History of the Doctrine of Preservation for the Multiple Versionists

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part one

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part two

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part three

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part four

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part five

The Erroneous Epistemology of Multiple Version Onlyism part six

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture

The Devil in the Details? Matthew 5:18, 19 and the Authority of Scripture, part two

The Dishonesty over the Version or Preservation of Scripture Issue

Explaining the Role of the Holy Spirit in the Perfect Preservation Doctrine or Sacred Text Position So that Anyone Really, Really Will Understand It

Fideistic Fakes

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 1

French Protestants and the Waldenses: The Church and the Text of the New Testament, pt. 2

Gender Discord and Psalm 12:6-7

Historiography, Bible Doctrine, and the Text of Scripture

Honesty About the Historical Position on Preservation

If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation

If You Believe in Canonicity, You Can and Should Believe in Preservation part 2

Is it True That No Two NT MSS Are Exactly the Same?

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism?

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism?  Part Two

Is KJVO a Great Danger to Historic Fundamentalism?  Part Three

Isaiah 59:21 and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (J)

Jerome's Preface to the Canonical Epistles--Ancient Evidence for 1 John 5:7 (T)

John 10:35, the Scripture Cannot Be Broken, and Perfect Preservation of Scripture

John Owen Again on the Septuagint (LXX) Issue Related to the Presuppositions for the Preservation of Scripture, Meanwhile Answering James White

Jon Gleason's Series on Preservation of Scripture:  part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8

Kay Jay Vee Potpourri

Kethiv / Qere and King James Only (KJVO) or Perfect Preservation (T)

The Latin Vulgate and the King James Version

The Lie about the History of One Bible Onlyism

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About or He's Lying

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About or He's Lying, pt. 2

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About or He's Lying, pt. 3

More James White on the Version Issue: Either He Doesn't Know What He's Talking About or He's Lying, pt. 4

More on "It Is Written"

Multiple Versions Only (MVO): No Scripture, So Invent a Fake History (J)

My Precise Agreement with a Prominent Liberal Theologian

The Paradigm for Preservation of Scripture

Perfect Preservation of Scripture and Young Earth Creationism

Perfect Tense Preservation (by David Sutton)

Polygraphing the Words of James White, Pt. 1

Polygraphing the Words of James White, Pt. 2

Polygraphing the Words of James White, Pt. 3

Presuppositionalism, the Fool, Irony, and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture

Preservation:  Does It Seem Like They Care?

Psalm 12:6–7 and Gender Discordance: the anti-KJV and anti-preservation argument debunked (again) (T)

Psalm 12:6-7 Commentaries and the Preservation of Words (T)

Quotes, Quotes, Quotes: We Take the Historic Position (J)

The Real History of the One Bible Doctrine (J)

Reasoned Preservation of Scripture

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 1

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 2

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 3

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 4

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 5

Revelation 22:18-19 and the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (J)

Revisionist History on the Perfect Preservation of Scripture

Richard Muller and the History of the Preservation of Scripture pt. 1

A SAFE PLACE: Biblical Inerrancy and Perfect Preservation

Scrambling for an Explanation: The LXX Argument

The Sharper Iron Crowd Ignores the Peter Van Kleeck, Jr. Post

The Sister Presuppositions of Palaeography and Paleontology

So Does the Bible Mean What It Says About Itself, Or?

Sola Scriptura, the Norming Norm, and the Doctrine of Preservation

Standard Conversation Between Multiple Versionist with Perfect Preservationist

Testimonium Spiritus Sancti Internum

The Third Rail of Fundamentalist Politics

The Tomato Truck

The Two Most Important Facts about the Bible Version Issue -- Ignored or Covered Up

Two Obvious Contemporary Theological Contradictions and their Meaning part two

The Wackiness of Opposition to the Only Possible Biblical and Logical Position on the Preservation of Scripture

Various Editions of the "Which TR?" Question in a Debate about the Preservation of Scripture

Verbal, Plenary Inspiration and Preservation of Scripture: A Video (T)

What About Logic and King James Onlyism?

What’s In the Bible? (J)

What's Worse? This Kind of Bad or That Kind of Bad

What's Worse? This Kind of Bad or That Kind of Bad, part two

Where Are the Words?

Where Is the Bible?

Where Is the Bible?  Part Two:  Answering the Questions

Whose Beliefs Aren't Taught In Scripture and Have No History Before the Nineteenth Century?

Why I Keep Talking about the Text/Preservation Issue

The Word Is Words:  Dishonesty About Preservation (J)

The Word Is Words:  Honesty About Preservation (J)

You Know the Critical Text Position Is In Trouble When It's Propped Up by Blatant Lies

Scripture:  Sola Scriptura

Christian Liberty and Its Relationship to Church Autonomy and Sola Scriptura

Is the Bible Enough Evidence?

A Primer on the Two Book Approach: Rejection of Sola Scriptura

So Long, Sola: Convenient Evangelical Sola Scriptura

Sola Scriptura, the Norming Norm, and the Doctrine of Preservation

Sola Scriptura:  Tests

Scripture:  Sufficiency

The Bible Is the Red Pill

Do Christians Like the Whole Bible?

Does the Holy Spirit Lead Believers by Talking to Them Directly?

Erroneous Reliance on Circumstances as Evidence of the Holy Spirit's Leading

Extra-Scriptural Divine Talk: A Common Ground for Almost All False Religion

God does NOT speak through the Bible (T)

God Speaking and the Individual Will of God

God Speaking and the Individual Will of God, pt. 2

If You Don't Have God Talking to You, What Then?

Is the Bible Enough Evidence?

Is the Macedonian Call Normative for Missions Today?

Is the Macedonian Call Normative for Missions Today? Part Two

The Means By Which God Does Talk Today

Scripture Repudiates Innovation in and by the Church

Scripture Talks To Us and It Says Everything We Need to Hear

Scripture:  Textual Criticism

Big Talk with Little to Show at Evangelical Textual Criticism

No Two Biblical Manuscripts Are The Same? Old and New Testament Evidence

Should Naturalistic Explanations Overrule Scriptural Ones?

The Sister Presuppositions of Palaeography and Paleontology

Scripture:  Versions

Comparative: Amending the U. S. Constitution and Amending the Bible

Analyzing King James Version Revision or Update Arguments, pt. 1

Analyzing King James Version Revision or Update Arguments, pt. 2

The Bird Bible: 'Saturday Night Live' Gets It -- Do the People Doing It?

The Confusion and Heterodoxy of Modern Version Proponents: Revisited in Light of "FBFI and the KJV," Its Reasons and Debate

The Confusion and Heterodoxy of Modern Version Proponents: Revisited in Light of "FBFI and the KJV," Its Reasons and Debate, pt. 2

The Connection Between One's World View and the Version Issue

The Dean Burgon Society and King James Bible Research Council: Would I Join Them?

The Dishonesty over the Version or Preservation of Scripture Issue

The Doctrine of the Preservation of Scripture and the Idea of Acceptable Multiple Versions of Scripture

The Engagement of Others on the Modern Versions or King James Version

Kay Jay Vee Potpourri

Kethiv / Qere and King James Only (KJVO) or Perfect Preservation (T)

The King James Version and the Doctrine of Separation

King James Version:  Elizabethan English?

The Latin Vulgate and the King James Version

Let's Be Very Clear: Not All King James Version Views Are the Same

McWhorter, Ward, Tyndale, and a KJV Update

Multiple Versions Only (MVO): No Scripture, So Invent a Fake History (J)

The NKJV—Just “Easier to Read,” or an Inferior Translation that, Among other Problems, is Weaker on Sodomy? (T)

Pants and Bible Versions: Do They Matter?

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 1

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 2

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 3

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 4

Recent James White Videos and the Bible Version Issue, pt. 5

Revising the King James Version and Pleasing Absolutely No One

The Two Most Important Facts about the Bible Version Issue -- Ignored or Covered Up

The Wackiness of Opposition to the Only Possible Biblical and Logical Position on the Preservation of Scripture

Was the King James Version the Standard for the English Speaking People for 300 Years?

What Do the Multiple Version Men Leave Us With?

What Do the Multiple Version Men Leave Us With? pt. 2

What's the Scoop on the New King James Version?

Why I'm King James and the Contrast with a Dangerous King James Version Position