Home Studio Tour and Videography Kit
Updated 03/03/2021 Several friends have asked, so here’s a tour of my home video studio—which I set up for the second season of the Bible Study Magazine Podcast and for my own YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/TtVBIof3Olo Updated shot of my studio (3/3/21): And this is my current video kit: Canon M50, body only - This is widely regarded as one of the best entry-level vlogging cameras. I'm thoroughly happy with it. Literally my only wish is that the remote could trigger manual focus. Update...
Christianity and Liberalism and Homosexuality
J.I. Packer’s first book, “Fundamentalism” and the Word of God, published when he was 32 years old in 1958, provides a brilliantly simple analysis of the three major approaches to Christian religious authority that were then, as now, on offer. Briefly, they were…. 1) Evangelicalism: Scripture is the final authority 2) Traditionalism: church tradition is the final authority 3) Subjectivism: autonomous human reason is the final authority I take Packer’s evangelical viewpoint: though I value...
Review: Laurence M. Vance’s Archaic Words and the Authorized Version
I'm trying to do what wiser people have recommended; I'm trying to critique only the best and strongest representatives of the various KJV-Only viewpoints available. I recently posted a YouTube review of Laurence M. Vance’s 1997 book, Archaic Words and the Authorized Version. Here’s the text. https://youtu.be/W0bXdlX2668 I hope to show that Laurence M. Vance’s book, Archaic Words and the Authorized Version is simply and fundamentally and clearly wrong, gloriously wrong, infamously wrong,...
False Friends Video Series
JICYMI, I'm putting up a series of vides on YouTube talking through "False Friends in the KJV." Here's a link to the whole playlist. In my estimation, "False Friends" is the unanswerable argument in the KJV-Only debate. It's one thing to say, "Anyone with a bit of elbow grease and a dictionary can read the KJV." But what if, because of language change, people don't and can't know every time they're misunderstanding a given Elizabethan English word? Defenses of the KJV rarely get specific, and...
Inherited Sin and COVID-19 Epistemology
One of my walking buddies at work is a statistician who does data analysis for our company. Of statistics, I guess. I always enjoy talking to him; I like the way his mind works. I’ve long been interested in epistemology, the question of how we know—how we justify our knowledge, especially as Christians. COVID-19 has raised the issue again in very personal and insistent ways. I had this conversation with my buddy, and I asked if he’d mind if I posted it on my blog. Mark Marshall, I could use...