In part 1, I pointed out that part of the support for the KJV Bible is founded on the argument that the Textus Receptus is a special text that God protected. The English Anglicans then translated that text, thus preserving God’s true word. Behind the argument concerning the transmission of the Textus Receptus is the implied idea that all other textual traditions contain some mistakes. Some textual traditions contain more mistakes, and some, like the Majority Text, contain fewer mistakes. But anything other than the Textus Receptus is an inaccurate Bible. It was but a short step from this clai ..read more

Image of 1611 King James Version. Click on the image to go to the website where it was published. Used under Fair Use Doctrine. Orthodoxy in the USA and Canada has an English problem. No, I am not talking about the country of England. I am talking about the language used. At least two of our jurisdictions argue that the only proper version of English to use in prayer and worship is 18th-19th-century English. No earlier or later English may be used. How did a part of Orthodoxy arrive at such a conclusion? The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is partly responsible for our odd conclusion. Bu ..read more

Photo by Leeloo Thefirst on Pexels.com I received questions in the comments on one of my blog posts. I answered the person but then thought that I would include the answer as a post. You will not understand the context since you do not see the questions. Nevertheless, I think the answer is understandable enough for me to post. See what you think. “You seem to be arguing too many issues to answer reasonably and in the few words one can use in a response comment. So, I will have to summarize very briefly. Generally, those who argue about free will or predestination go to extreme versions of the ..read more

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/lia-thomas-calls-out-anti-trans-feminists-as-misogynistic-transphobes/ar-AA1akWBM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bd5de719a1e54230a3e1c111f82d2d89&ei=17&fbclid=IwAR3JVpoa6FbjhxC8V6CNpLjwTBKESGvMz-zg5IcuZv8YCh2pJd2GPkivVRQ Notice the continuing split in the far-left over trans-gender people in sports in the article linked above. Catch also how the tactic previously used against “those who disagree” is now used within that faction. Thus, any within the far-left who disagree are transphobes and not true feminists. No disagreement or discussion is permitted ..read more

“I wasn’t canceled; I’m still here. But what cancel culture does is make examples of high-profile people in order to frighten less high-profile people into submission. There are lots of ordinary cases, which won’t hit the headlines, of people biting their tongues or losing their jobs, their boss having a word with them, being disciplined or being ostracised in some way for their beliefs.”1 This article from which the quotation cited above comes is worth reading. The citation is at the bottom of this post. The woman is a lesbian and proudly proclaims herself so. She is in a lesbian marriage (h ..read more

I was Facebooking today when I ran across a post in which an Orthodox Christian wished Memory Eternal to someone who had died. The Orthodox blogosphere struck within the first two comments. The person was promptly reprimanded for daring to pray Memory Eternal on behalf of a non-Orthodox. In full dudgeon, the poster accused the person of violating the Canons of the Church. When someone else tried to respond to the poster, they were jointly accused with the poster of being a compromiser with the world. The poster ended up apologizing. However, this left me thinking. Was the accuser correct? I h ..read more

From Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na Hito by Aoi Sekina, Tsuzura Ryou ©2022 First, a quick instruction. Far East manga read from right to left, the reverse of how the West mostly does it. So, to read the manga above, one starts at the upper right panel, then goes left, then down to the lower right panel, and then goes left. Though the manga panels address a male stalker, there are also female stalkers. The point is the same either way. In the modern West, the route to love is anything but easy. You see someone in whom you are interested. If you are young enough, you crush on them. How do you a ..read more

The National Day of Spain (Spanish: Fiesta Nacional de España) is a national holiday held annually on October 12. It is also traditionally and commonly referred to as the Día de la Hispanidad (Hispanicity, Spanishness), commemorating Spanish legacy worldwide, especially in Hispanic America. The National Day of Spain is the day of celebration on which the Spanish people commemorate the country’s history, recognize and appreciate achievements, reconfirm their commitment to the nation’s future. The day celebrates unity and fraternity, and also shows Spain’s ties with the international community ..read more

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 from Wikimedia Commons I took a required ethics class when I was first in seminary in 1974/75. The professor gave us an ethics exercise during the class quarter. I no longer remember whether it was at the beginning or during the latter part of the quarter. We were discussing criminal/civil law and Christian behavior. So, he asked us whether it was correct to break the law. Of course, we all answered that if the government tried to require us to worship another god, we would disobey, even if we ended up jailed. He agreed with us. Then he took the e ..read more

It has long been noted that Dracula has strong Anglican religious overtones, from its use of sacraments in a High Anglican way to its persistent use of consecrated objects to hold back the tides of Dracula.1 It has also been seen as an example of the inter-Anglican fight between Low Church and High Church advocates.2 Of van Helsing, it is said, “He also represents Catholicism and what the Lower Church Anglicans feared about Catholic practices and rituals, especially through his sacrilegious overuse of the Host.”3 These comments should not be surprising since Stoker was a member of the Church ..read more