The United States, and many other countries, are seeing the fruit of critical scholarship. Statues are coming down, cities are being vandalized and burnt, and people are being assaulted and even killed in what the media is reporting as “mostly peaceful protests”. Many of us are wise to what’s actually going on – the FrankfurtContinue reading “The Big Lie of Critical Bibliology”
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Authorized Review – Decidedly Different: An Admission That Doctrine is Affected
Introduction In this review of Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible, I want to demonstrate a critical error in Ward’s thinking as it pertains to the use of multiple translations. Ward claims that there are no major doctrines affected between the KJV and modern translations. “No major doctrines are affected. ButContinue reading “Authorized Review – Decidedly Different: An Admission That Doctrine is Affected”
Authorized Review – Does Authorized Need to Be Updated?
Introduction In order to respond to the anecdotes of Mark Ward, I’d like to introduce the reader to a story of my own. Growing up I was what you might call a “bookworm.” I spent much of my free time reading and writing. Similar to Ward’s account of his childhood, I aced every spelling test.Continue reading “Authorized Review – Does Authorized Need to Be Updated?”
Authorized Review – Textual Criticism and the Scholarly Guild
Introduction This article is the first in a series of articles inspecting several important topics not covered in my Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible review. The first subject I want to cover, that I tried to avoid addressing in my 9 article series is the issue of textual criticism. InContinue reading “Authorized Review – Textual Criticism and the Scholarly Guild”
Authorized Review – Chapter 6: Reading the KJV is Sinful
Introduction In chapter 6 of Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible, Mark Ward responds to 10 common objections to abandoning the KJV. Ward opens by stating that “The major theme of this book” is, “How changes in English over the last four hundred years make it nobody’s fault that contemporary readersContinue reading “Authorized Review – Chapter 6: Reading the KJV is Sinful”
Authorized Review – Chapter 5: The KJV as a Second Language
This article is the sixth in a series reviewing Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible. Introduction In chapter 5 of Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible, Ward finally says clearly what has been lurking in between the lines in first four chapters: that the KJV should notContinue reading “Authorized Review – Chapter 5: The KJV as a Second Language”
Authorized Review – Chapter 4: Learning Words is Difficult
This article is the fifth in a series reviewing Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible. Introduction Thus far in Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible, the reader is being introduced to the idea that the King James Bible is more difficult to read than people may think.Continue reading “Authorized Review – Chapter 4: Learning Words is Difficult”
Authorized Review – Chapter 3: Not so Difficult to Read
This article is the fourth in a series reviewing Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible. Introduction So far in this review series of Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible, Ward has communicated to his reader that the King James, while mostly intelligible, has many places that willContinue reading “Authorized Review – Chapter 3: Not so Difficult to Read”
Authorized Review – Chapter 2: Jokes & Anecdotes
This article is the third in a series reviewing Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible. Introduction In the last article, I addressed Ward’s evaluation of what is lost if the King James Bible goes away. In this article, I will review Chapter 2 of Authorized: The Use & Misuse of theContinue reading “Authorized Review – Chapter 2: Jokes & Anecdotes”
Authorized Review – Chapter 1: A Strange Start
This article is the second in a series reviewing Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible. Introduction In the first article of this series, I highlighted several key observations from the introduction of Mark Ward’s book, Authorized: The Use & Misuse of the King James Bible. Notably that most people who readContinue reading “Authorized Review – Chapter 1: A Strange Start”
