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By A. B. Caneday My response to the question asked of me concerning James 5:16, which admittedly called for knowledge of pertinent passages within the Gospels with regard to Jesus’ teaching concerning confession and forgiveness of sin, prompted a follow-up question. I was asked to provide biblical support for my initial response. Specifically, the questioner…
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[Editor’s Note: This interview by James Hamilton, Associate Professor of Biblical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with Thomas Nettles is from 2010 and was originally posted at For His Renown.] Professor Thomas J. Nettles is one of my favorite historians. It was a joy to audit a course he taught on Baptist history,…
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By Michael A.G. Haykin The sixteenth century was one of the great eras of English Bible translation. Between 1526, when William Tyndale’s superlative rendition of the New Testament was printed, and 1611, when the King James Bible (KJB), or Authorized Bible, appeared, no less than ten English-language Bible versions were published. The translators of the…
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By Ardel Caneday Recent publication of the booklet, Must Christians Always Forgive? A Primer and Grammar on Forgiveness of Sins, prompted a reader to inquire concerning the admonition of James 5:16. James exhorts, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (ESV). The question posed does…
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The Synod of Dort, or Dordrecht, met on an island in the Meuse River near Rotterdam. It began on November 13, 1618, and concluded May 9, 1619. Its purpose was to give a judgment on the theological formulations of certain pastors and theological professors. These men had been convinced of the correctness of the system…
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Yesterday we highlighted two lectures by Paul L. Maier on Luther and the Bible, given at the Dunham Bible Museum. Today we turn your attention to yet another DBM lecture, this time by Gerald Bray, titled, “Translating the Bible from William Tyndale to King James.” Gerald Bray is research professor of Divinity History and Doctrine…
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In the most recent issue of Credo Magazine, “Purgatory: An Evangelical Doctrine?”, James White has written an engaging article titled, “Purgatory: The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever.” James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the author of more than twenty books, a professor,…
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In this special session at the 2018 G3 Conference, Drs. James White and Michael Kruger converse about the biblical canon. Both White and Kruger have published books on the subject of Scripture. In 2004, Dr. White published Scripture Alone. Dr. Kruger published Canon Revisited in 2012 and The Question of Canon in 2013. In this conversation, White and Kruger discuss the biblical canon…
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Abraham Kuyper was one of the most important and influential figures of the 19th century and early 20th century. Kuyper was not only a Dutch theologian, writing several works of theology that we still have with us today, but a politician, journalist, and statesman, being the prime minister of the Netherlands at the start of…
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The following debate, which took place in September of 2012, is between Adnan Rashid and James White on the question: Is the Bible Corrupted? In the future, a second debate will be released as well. Here is how the website The Big Debates describes each side: “Adnan Rashid argued that the New Testament, in it…
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In the new issue of Credo Magazine, “What the Big Story? Why Biblical Theology Should Matter to Every Bible-Reading Christian,” editor Joshua Greever had the pleasure of interviewing James Hamilton about his new book, What is Biblical Theology? The interview is titled: “Exploring Biblical Theology: James Hamilton walks us through the basics of the Bible’s…
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By A. B. Caneday If we become seduced by popular teaching to confess private and secret sins publicly, we unwittingly promote more sin, especially the sin of gossip. After we have confessed a sin, if we confess it again to others against whom we did not commit the sin, we stumble into another sin, for…
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