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Standards (skirt length, skirts v slacks, hair length, make-up, ink, piercings, etc) will all have a moral element - a "strong standard" leaning, an "open" leaning, or a "no standard" leaning. Most are personal, cultural PREFERENCES and the Bible will only give general direction, not "thou...

Kurt Aland has always said his wife Barbara, with whom he co-authored a number of books, did not get credit due and simply had the "one" last name often listed. When teaching NT research to pastoral and Greek students in college, I started using BOTH "Aland" references to remind them of honesty...

Thanks. That's what I figured. But it doesn't change the "choices" (whether those of NAA - I give credit to BOTH Alands - or 35) since all of the options are either in the text or the apparatus. For years I used a Stephanos text and its apparatus, but soon found it outdated as more and more...

When we were in San Diego or SoCal, he would always take time to talk or join for a bite. He'd usually come up to Wahoo's for fish tacos on his bike. Even stopped to see him in Sioux Falls, SD, where he taught in the "seminary" and I drove thru town (half-way from Wyoming to Wisconsin). Good...

Amazing work; still unsure how it is that different from newest NAA that seeks to compile text + massive apparatus.

The false mantra of the health-and-wealth Osteen brand of Christianity is that "something GOOD is going to happen to you". This makes anemic Christians who question their salvation or turn their backs on God as soon as a difficulty arises. Lose job? Lose faith Lose wealth? Lose faith Lose...

Welcome. I encourage you to wander around the place, read much, and grow in His grace

4.18 here in Wisconsin. 1.88 before bidenflation on election day Nov 2020

Sadly, with so many churches and huge bureaucracy you will have issues. Some heinous, many that could have been avoided. Is it the SBC role to intervene in a member church that might cover-up issues? With 15,000,000 members in 50,000 churches that would be a daunting task. Remember each...

Not sure of "rejected" or just "not inspired" so not included. I do not believe a single Word inspired by God is lost, but do believe the Apostles wrote many things that were not inspired so are not in the canon. First letter to Corinth. We have the second and third (labeled I & II since the...

Happily. That's how we learn together. II Thes 2:2 (written c. AD51)

You are being less than forthright here. Just reread what you just stated and you will see you are 100% wrong (but that is your right). (1) No, the early churches did NOT know most NT writers by sight, voice or even what they'd written. In an age with little communication and little in-person...

Scripture WAS Scripture when written, of course. BUT judging all the documents in AD50-60-70 as to what truly WAS Scripture and what was NOT Scripture was a battle the early Christians had to fight. Even from the FIRST apostolic letters there were FAKE epistles attributed to them. It was...

When radio first began to spread (think 1920's) there was discussion on how it would spread evil, destroy morals, lead to dancing :) and other detrimental actions. BUT . . . when they realized the BENEFITS of radio for spreading the Gospel most adapted. Same has happened to television, with...

They WERE problems existing in the AD50-90 first few decades of writings of apostles or they would not be included in warning TO those first century churches. THEN in next 40 years (AD90-130 in the generation following the apostles, writings, such as the Shepherd of Hermas, the Epistle of...

In the early church (AD 35-335) there were entire books, Gospels, letters, that were in debate as to whether they were the Word of God or not. Over those years a consensus was reached by believers and our 66-book Bible was accepted. Some still fought to include other books - that did not...

I was moved by the website/ministry. We cruise a lot and find witnessing for Christ very difficult to many crew members. Found that supporting Canaveral Port Ministry was a way we could help. THANK YOU!

The premise of KJVonly sect is to denounce any/all manuscripts that run counter to the Byzantine copies of copies of copies of copies . . . as if "weight" makes right. I appreciate real scholarship searching for codices and other ancient texts to find that which is closest to the original...

[From Harvard Divinity School Library an easy-read summary of the Geneva Bible] During the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's reign, English Puritans sought refuge in Geneva, Switzerland, and wanted to produce an annotated Bible for the use of their families while in exile. In 1557, William...