I was asked in college once, "Have you ever acted upon your homosexual lusts? Just answer 'yes' or 'no'."
Some questions cannot be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no' because you disagree with the presupposition behind the question.
These questions presuppose that they are answerable but since we do not have the original autographs how can anyone know whether anything is identical to them? All we have to go on is promises that God made to preserve His Word.
Also, these questions imply that my opinion actually has value. It really does not matter what I think, it matters what the church believes. This is what the church believes: Quote: |
WCF 1:2 Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testament, which are these: Of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, II Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Of the New Testament: The Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, The Acts of the Apostles, Paul's Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians I, Corinthians II, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians I , Thessalonians II , To Timothy I , To Timothy II, To Titus, To Philemon, The Epistle to the Hebrews, The Epistle of James, The first and second Epistles of Peter, The first, second, and third Epistles of John, The Epistle of Jude, The Revelation of John. All which are given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life.
| This is not just a list of book titles but the actual books themselves as they appeared in the TR.
For hundreds of years the English speaking church accepted the KJV as the faithful translation of the TR.
When the church changes her stance on this issue let me know.
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