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3. The most unusual or ridiculous reading- the one that makes least sense- is most likely to be the original. This is the theory that I find most offensive of all. The idea is that a reading that appears to make no sense, or contains a factual error, is likely to have been ‘corrected’ by a...

When I studied textual criticism at University, I recall that there were three particular rules which scholars used to try and establish the true text when the surviving manuscripts disagreed. We shall look at these in turn 1. The oldest manuscript is likely to be the most accurate. It needs to...

I don't think you have this quite right. At the Hampton Court conference in 1604, James declared to the Puritan party, "If this be all your party have to say for themselves, I will make them conform to the Church, or I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse." James was a calvinist...

The Puritans. Those who fled across the Atlantic to avoid persection, took the Geneva Bible with them, and during the English Civil War, it was the Cavaliers who would have been reading the KJV, while the Roundhead soldiers stuck with their Geneva Bibles. I simply don't believe that this is...

Which other Bible translations do you think stand within that stream?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvn0jpe50ll3o Somewhat surprising. Especially as one of my daughters lives in Falmouth. But what I want to know is how it got there. Is it a leftover from the War of 1812? Was it really the Yanks who were bombing us in WW2 and not the Germans? Or has Trump...

FYI, the marginal renderings are in my Cambridge University Press edition of the KJV, printed for the Trinitarian Bible Society and dating to around 2010, and also in the one I received from my parents way back in 1966.

May I remind you that when I asked you for an original quotation showing that Lollards were Credobaptists, you declined to give me one but fobbed me off with an impenitrable book dating hundreds of years later, in which I still haven't found the evidence that you asserted.

Of course not! Don't be silly! These men were living in the 17th Century, not the 21st. They would have lost their jobs (of worse) if they had dared to say anything against the king.

Yes. I think we might be blessed if we sang a capella more often - so long as there is someone handy who can pitch the key!

I came upon this interesting quotation from the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo today: 'I am more led to put forward the opinion (not as an irrevocable view) that the custom of singing in church is to be approved, so that through the delights of the ear the weaker mind may rise up to the...

I have had the exact opposite experience. I studied Classics (Latin and Greek) as an unconverted youngster at University, but then got fed up with it and went into business. When I was finally saved, more than 15 years later, I started to mug up my Greek again and although it was a big help to...

I think many people feel (mistakenly) that because they were 'christened' as infants, they should not submit to believers' baptism lest they be baptized twice. For a short while I was that man. I knew I had been christened into the Church of England as a tiny baby and when I came to faith many...

Come on over! you have nothing to lose but your mindless, stereotypical prejudice. Interestingly, in the 15th Century, Roman Catholics insisted that English was too rough and crude a language to have the Bible written in it.

Thank you for your friendly response. I have very limited time at present, so what I have done is just to cut and paste an extract from a blog post that I made many moons ago. By no means all Covenant theologians 'flatten' the difference between the Old and New covenants. Reformed Baptists in...

Have you ever visited?

I do a certain amount of itinerant preaching, and about ten years ago there were seven churches where I preached that used the King James (Authorised Version in Britain). I was (and still am) happy to use the KJV if asked. Of these, three have closed and two have switched to the NKJV. The...

We have now had two Lord's Day services in Budleigh. 25 people came the first week and more than 30 the week after. Please pray that this growth may be continued and souls saved to the glory of God.

I received this today from the European Centre for Law and Justice, a Chriatian Pressure Group opperating within the European Union. Please pray for the brave Christians in this country and ask your Congressman to bring before your government the situations they face. Dear Friends, From the 8th...

This will depend on what you mean by 'Priesthood.' There are no priests in Reformed Protestant theology that remotely resemble the Roman priesthood. And what do you mean by 'flattening the transition from the OT to the NT'? If you want to be an anabaptist, you are welcome but count me out...