Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
I was going to answer the new thread continuing the attack on the exclusive use of the AV in public worship as unconfessional, but it vanished (by admin / mod fiat, I assume), which is a good thing, as such an assertion is harmful and divisive, not to mention false, using an inappropriate definition of “vulgar language” in an attempt to disqualify the AV from that category.
Can folks really be so hostile to the Authorized Version that they would seek to marginalize those who primarily use it in public worship and cast them without the pale of Presbyterian / Reformed orthodoxy?
Listen, if you prefer the modern-language Bibles for your ministry, well and good, but don’t lay a law down which outlaws my early-modern English Bible* in the Reformed community! That would be as divisive as the hardline KJO declaring all modern CT-based Bibles as per-versions (which view I oppose as both untrue and ungodly). Don’t turn into the flip side of the Ruckman-Riplinger coin! Is it your purpose to divide the Presbyterian and Reformed communions? It may be a good way to vent your spleens (from past bad experiences?), but it is both unwise and uncharitable.
I have learned some good lessons regarding AV – CT relations here at PB, interacting with godly CT and MT users, and seeing the need for – not compromise regarding my position – but living in harmony, peace, respect, and affectionate friendship with those holding different views.
If we folks really take the injunction “redeeming the time” (ESV: “making the best use of” it) seriously, then we would do well focusing our text-critical prowess and wisdom on such as Bart Ehrman, who is not only influencing the general culture powerfully against our Bibles – all of them! – but his teachings will impact our children and our unbelieving friends if not countered with sound arguments and understanding. Ehrman is tutoring a generation of disciples to attack the Christian faith, and here we are wasting precious time and energy in this internecine warfare, and I speak to both camps, mine included! The Admins here ought to do in this area what they did with the Credo – Paedo camps, as it seems to have solved the perennial warfare between them.
Have we withal to deal with Ehrman, and if not, why not, seeing as that is where the wall is being breached while we play futile war games within the camp.
* “The English language is divided into three periods. Old English, (700 to 1100 AD); Middle English, (1100 to 1500 AD); and Modern English (1500 to the present). [Marjorie Anderson and Blanche C. Williams, Old English Handbook (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935), 6-7.]” Cited in Thomas Holland’s, Crowned With Glory, p. 210
Post too late to get into the closed thread at: PB blog.
Can folks really be so hostile to the Authorized Version that they would seek to marginalize those who primarily use it in public worship and cast them without the pale of Presbyterian / Reformed orthodoxy?
Listen, if you prefer the modern-language Bibles for your ministry, well and good, but don’t lay a law down which outlaws my early-modern English Bible* in the Reformed community! That would be as divisive as the hardline KJO declaring all modern CT-based Bibles as per-versions (which view I oppose as both untrue and ungodly). Don’t turn into the flip side of the Ruckman-Riplinger coin! Is it your purpose to divide the Presbyterian and Reformed communions? It may be a good way to vent your spleens (from past bad experiences?), but it is both unwise and uncharitable.
I have learned some good lessons regarding AV – CT relations here at PB, interacting with godly CT and MT users, and seeing the need for – not compromise regarding my position – but living in harmony, peace, respect, and affectionate friendship with those holding different views.
If we folks really take the injunction “redeeming the time” (ESV: “making the best use of” it) seriously, then we would do well focusing our text-critical prowess and wisdom on such as Bart Ehrman, who is not only influencing the general culture powerfully against our Bibles – all of them! – but his teachings will impact our children and our unbelieving friends if not countered with sound arguments and understanding. Ehrman is tutoring a generation of disciples to attack the Christian faith, and here we are wasting precious time and energy in this internecine warfare, and I speak to both camps, mine included! The Admins here ought to do in this area what they did with the Credo – Paedo camps, as it seems to have solved the perennial warfare between them.
Have we withal to deal with Ehrman, and if not, why not, seeing as that is where the wall is being breached while we play futile war games within the camp.
* “The English language is divided into three periods. Old English, (700 to 1100 AD); Middle English, (1100 to 1500 AD); and Modern English (1500 to the present). [Marjorie Anderson and Blanche C. Williams, Old English Handbook (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935), 6-7.]” Cited in Thomas Holland’s, Crowned With Glory, p. 210
Post too late to get into the closed thread at: PB blog.