Bart Ehrman and King James Onlyism Share Two Important But Highly Contestable Presuppositions
In biblical scholar Peter Williams' excellent review of atheist Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Williams writes, Time and again Ehrman claims to be able to tell us...something of the theological convictions and motivation of those who introduced a variant in the text [of the Greek New Testament]. The text he prefers may sometimes be in the mass of Alexandrian witnesses and may at other times be only attested in late manuscripts. At times it will...
My Skagit Valley Herald Pro-Life Article
After I saw the Center for Medical Progress videos (I forced myself to watch every one), I knew I had to do something—something even more tangible than a vote—to combat the evil of abortion. I almost attended a protest at an abortion clinic in Greenville, but it just didn't work out before I left for Washington. There is a Planned Parenthood clinic pretty close to my office here, right across the street from the grocery store which offers great prices on Ritter Sport bars. Perhaps one day I...
Conversion and Sanctification in Young Children in Christian Homes
From: J (used by permission) Sent: Thursday To: Mark L. Ward, Jr. I had a specific question that I wanted to ask you. Feel free to answer this at any time and to any extent that you are able. You mentioned to me once that [one of our respected mutual friends] had told you that he hoped that his children would never know a day that they didn’t trust Christ. It was in the context of our discussion of children who grow up in Christian homes and often don’t remember when they were saved. I wanted...
Evolutionary Progress
Listening to C.S. Lewis on the bus this morning: Mechanism, like all materialist systems, breaks down at the problem of knowledge. If thought is the undesigned and irrelevant product of cerebral motions, what reason have we to trust it? As for emergent evolution, if anyone insists on using the word God to mean "whatever the universe happens to be going to do next," of course we cannot prevent him. But nobody would in fact so use it unless he had a secret belief that what is coming next will be...
ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set
So excited! The ESV Reader's Bible is coming out in a Bibliotheca-like edition! As one of the top fifteen redheaded Bible typography enthusiasts in the nation (see my Bible Typography Manifesto and assorted other resources here), I can only go on record as saying, "Yes, yes, yes!" Take note, especially, of the fact that chapter numbers will not be included—those numbers were a flaw in the otherwise excellent ESV Reader's Bible. No word on price. The typeface, however, is Trinité, which is a...