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I watched this when I began my journey in understanding the way the Critical Text had been elevated. Even for those who disagree, it’s worth taking into account as it is better to argue against a position someone holds than one they don’t.

Would it be fair to say that the ease of reading is the Trojan Horse that has brought some distorted and diluted text variants into many modern translations? I’m all for clear reading styles but not if I have to give up key passages clear in the TR in favour of those obfuscated by the Critical Text.

As in: 1 Corinthians 20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that...

Might it be worth saying that for those who feel led to look at deeper layers within scripture, we should do it in humility and not out of a spirit of dissatisfaction with the plain meaning. To seek an understanding of the depth and greatness of God so that that can be shared with the lost, not...

I picture apologetics like a car driving in Florida - with a map you can find the location of the rocket launch area but you will not get into space unless you get out of the car at some point and blast off! In the same way, many people are lost and driving about with false or outdated maps...

I think his first book was good (the one written in conjunction with the rabbi) the second one not so much when he went off with a computer program and a method, but without the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Having interacted with Muslims who are spoon fed the idea that the Bible has been corrupted, numeric features of scripture that go beyond the authors minds to include certainly put a “stone in their shoe” (as Greg Koukl would say)! I think it’s a question of audience. Some people are blessed by...

I think that the idea of scouring the Bible for secret messages (like a fortune teller) rather than immersing yourself in the truth and allowing God to take you deeper is the source of the error here… I don’t believe the author of The Bible Code was a Christian, and used the Bible more as a...

I have always liked the legal phrase “including but not limited to” - God’s message includes but is not limited to the top level reading of His word. On the other hand, as Mark Twain once said “It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do...

I think the ambiguity comes in the phrasing of the initial thread title. “Secret” is such a loaded word and brings to mind secret societies like the Masons who tell their initiates one thing and those in higher ranks another. God’s hidden gems are quite unlike this, serving only to underscore...

I’ve just joined this forum having spent a long time on another one, where I felt the Lord indicate to me that I had shared what I was supposed to there. I personally read the NKJV but ignore the footnotes, preferring it in audiobook format. I also have Max McLean reading the KJV. I don’t...

How about me answering a question with a question… Is it possible that an eternal God who knows the end from the beginning might leave hints of His plans in His word, some of which might appear highly anachronistic from a standard “documentary” view of the Bible?

I think the use of the words “secret messages” in the OP is rather loaded towards Gnosticism… The Protestant third rule of scripture interpretation is: “If the Plain Text Makes Perfect Sense, Seek No Other Sense” Contrast with the ancient Hebrew method: PRDS P'shat (straight, direct...

I love this one as well: Would you expect less from an infinite God?

I think there is a distinction between digging deep and divination. God invites one and prohibits the other. Proverbs 25:2 New King James Version 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. E.g. https://www.khouse.org/articles/2003/482/

To be fair, he widens the lens to include Bibles based on the Greek Textus Receptus, but the point stands that the Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are not the “best” manuscripts. There is so much more on the inferiority of the Critical Text that could be brought out, not least of which the way it...

I found this very interesting recently. The layers of mathematical improbability behind some of this leads me to conclude the Bible is unique and inspired by God.

Not sure, but this is one of my favourites… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m1WbaIkt-6QaRVut-AtZ3YRARUKE8Jao4&si=RGX2RJ02cDCV6hnQ

Well, @Subhumanoidal you learn something new every day!!! I consider myself educated!

@romans113336 I noticed your thread on Christian Heavy Metal - I think it speaks best to heavy themes - Revelation 19:11 is certainly one!! Revelation 19:11 “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he...