The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

Sometimes I wonder if Village Skeptics hear themselves when they  speak.     Scholars agree the Gospels were anonymously written.   That’s not entirely true.     A great many scholars believe that to be so.    Others do not.  Wes Huff is one of them! That’s not at all true.  Wes Huff has actually stated this : Where this leaves us is with, in my estimation, relatively sound evidence to conclude that the names of the four canonical Gospels are indeed the authors. Although the early church testimony to these authors was not necessarily discussed in this particular blog, this early testimony also adds to the verification of the authors being the namesakes we associate with those particular documents. Of course it is theoretically possible that these documents were originally circulated anonymously, from the estimation of the evidence I do not believe that to be the case. Who were Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John?   They ...

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.  So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. And  This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8  If we say w...

 I agree with Steve Hays , Atheists contend that Christians are guilty of special pleading when they interpret the Bible to save face. However, none of my principles are distinctive to inerrancy. Rather, these pertain to hermeneutics in general. Many atheists (e.g. Bart Ehrman) are poor readers. Their approach represents a maladroit way to read historical narratives or law codes generally, whether inspired or uninspired .  When we encounter difficulties in an uninspired text, we make allowance for error. That's the primary difference between the Christian interpretation of Scripture and uninspired writings. But even in the case of uninspired writers, there's no general presumption that the writer was mistaken. Sometimes he was. But sometimes the reader is mistaken. And that's more likely when we read ancient writings.  One if Instagram’s Parade of Biblical Critics, Robert J. Rolle has demonstrated the truth of Steve’s words here .   His objection is that since the te...

President Trump has already signed an Executive Order aimed at the 14th Amendment.  Although I myself believe this action is largely symbolic - birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, & executive orders can’t do much of anything on their own to change it, the signing of the order does set the stage for the discussion about this issue among the American people in the near future.   Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as if we aren’t having this conversation already — we most certainly are — but we have come to the point as a society that the sitting President feels the need to placate the populace by drawing attention to their (the populace’s) belief that a single authoritarian leader can end or begin to end a time honored legal practice enshrined in the Constitution itself. We live in evil times, so let’s read a  Christian Post  article by Ben Milner of Salem Presbyterian Church (PCA) back in 2021, and let us be reminded of what the LORD has to say about all...