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Duns Scotus and the Immaculate Conception
In our recent debate (link), Roman Catholic apologist William Albrecht took the position that the dogma of the immaculate conception was ancient and biblical. The careful listener will note that Mr. Albrecht was unable to provide any patristic quotations that actually affirmed the idea of the immaculate conception, and his rather bizarre exegesis of Galatians…
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Leo I and Gregory I vs. the Immaculate Conception
In an earlier post (link), I provided evidence that the teachings of Leo I aka Leo the Great and Gregory I aka Gregory the Great at least implicitly contradict the modern dogma of the immaculate conception. Luigi Gambero’s “Mary and the Fathers of the Church” has a section on Leo I (pp. 302-09) and a…
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Miscellaneous notes about the 1549 Ethiopic
Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament is a 2007 Brill book by Robert Wilkinson. Pages 68-70 provide some insight into the background of the printing of the 1548-9 Ethiopic (Ge’ez) Bible. Evidently, the printing was based on a single manuscript that had recently arrived in…
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Critical Text, Textus Recptus, and Majority – an Example Collation
NA28 Beza 1598 Hodges-Farstad (Majority) 31Ἦν δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων, Νικόδημος ὄνομα αὐτῷ, ἄρχων τῶν Ἰουδαίων· 2οὗτος ἦλθεν πρὸς αὐτὸν νυκτὸς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἀπὸ θεοῦ ἐλήλυθας διδάσκαλος· οὐδεὶς γὰρ δύναται ταῦτα τὰ σημεῖα ποιεῖν ἃ σὺ ποιεῖς, ἐὰν μὴ ᾖ ὁ θεὸς μετ’ αὐτοῦ. 3ἀπεκρίθη [] Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ·…
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Jeff Riddle and Ephesians 3:9
Jeff Riddle recently posted a lengthy “text note” regarding Ephesians 3:9. My reactions follow. The post is riddled with an even worse radical skepticism than that of Bart Ehrman. Both Ehrman and Riddle oppose the Reformed orthodox position that we can reconstruct the original text from the extant copies. Ehrman, however, at least acknowledges that…
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John Owen versus the MARTs
The Modern Advocates of the Received Texts (MARTs) are a group of folks who argue that the textus receptus is not just the best text out there, it’s jot and tittle the same as the original. Their position is thoroughly modern. Despite the fact that they like to characterize their position as being “Reformed Bibliology”…
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Francis Turretin – the "Received Text" – "Confessional Text" and related Textual Critical Issues
Background – Name and the significance of Methodology I’ve been using the nom de plume, TurretinFan, for over a decade. Why? It’s certainly not because I slavishly follow everything that theologian taught. On the contrary, I have a number of disagreements with him, though typically about things that don’t or shouldn’t matter. The big examples…
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Responding to Leighton Flowers' "Choice Beef" Argument
Leighton Flowers (transcription of oral comments): When we ask about election, we’re talking about mainly God having favor – Him choosing somebody over someone else. Matter of fact, when we use the word “choice,” a lot of times we’re thinking of kind of the verb form of it, like, “I made a choice between these…
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"Behold Your Mother" by Tim Staples – a Review by TurretinFan
“Behold Your Mother,” by Tim Staples, “respectfully but clearly answers every conceivable Protestant objection to Mary, the Mother of God,” according to Mitch Pacwa. Of course, Protestants don’t object to Mary, but we understand he means the Marian dogmas of Roman Catholicism. Al Kresta, with unintentional irony, states that Tim “addresses objections I haven’t seen…
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Later Alexandrian Manuscripts
Some of my Reformed brothers who (like me) prefer the KJV, seem to have a very low information understanding of textual criticism. For example, there seems to be a myth that manuscripts in the “Alexandrian text-type” family stopped being produced around the turn of the millenium. In fact, there are manuscripts dated from the 12th…