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Clear searchHow an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
Can We Trust the Bible? How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination Christians sometimes hear a sweeping objection: the Bible may once have contained God's word, but generations of copying changed it so thoroughly that…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…n preserves the alleged original account naming Ishmael in Genesis 17, 21 or 22. What the textual witnesses actually establish The Masoretic Hebrew text names Isaac. The Samaritan Pentateuch names Isaac. The ancient Greek Septuagint names Isaac. The New Testament quotes the Isaac…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…hip to Yahweh-worship. The proposed merger is an attempt to connect scattered linguistic, textual and archaeological observations into an unwritten prehistory. The question is not whether that reconstruction can be imagined. The question is whether the evidence requires it—or whe…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…ad not produced a complete technical grammar for answering those questions. That is not a criticism of the council. It is a reminder that theological controversy usually advances by asking one precise question at a time. A formula written to exclude one error does not automatical…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…manuscripts have been presented as thousands of corruptions, while every form of Qur’anic textual plurality is classified as perfect preservation, he has been taught two standards rather than one. Many of these young men had not been persuaded out of Christianity as it actually e…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…the agent’s identity. The proposals should remain open to meaningful tests. A persuasive textual case excluding political mediation would weaken the governmental identification. A negotiated transfer of authority would challenge a theory requiring anarchy. Temple construction be…
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