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A NOT SO 'OLD MAN' TESTIFIES
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.”
(Proverbs 29:2)
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THE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES
Even as the sovereignty of God encompasses the whole of reality and cannot be limited to those things deemed ‘spiritual’, so the authority of the Word of God extends to all things.
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400 years
King James Authorized Version
AUTHORIZED OR MODERN BIBLE
The 1611 Bible was never the 'modern version' of its day. The Authorized Version possesses its own unique English. ...
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What it really means to be a Christian
An examination of the claims of Christ and the Gospel of God's grace in the light of the Christian Scriptures
160 pp
We are often led to believe that Great Britain is in a post-Christian era and that the country is now largely secular. Some recent research shows that as much as seventy-one percent of the British still regard themselves as Christian, despite the fact that fewer than a million regularly attend any place of Christian worship, with these figures dropping fast. In view of this, the Churches ought to be asking themselves why this anomaly. Despite all their efforts at offering ‘contemporary worship’ and discarding much that is traditional in order to be more appealing, the ebbing away of congregations continues apace. There are, however, some even more pressing questions to be posed. What do those calling themselves Christian think that it means to be a Christian? Also, how does their understanding compare with what it really means to be a Christian and how can anyone know for sure what a Christian is? This book is an attempt to describe in some depth what, according to the Christian Scriptures, it means to be a Christian and to point out how this may differ from some popular misconceptions. The book is not a populist easy-read, but hopefully rewarding for those prepared to read it carefully
read extracts:
What it Really Means to be a Christian
and also
The Authority of Scripture
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PUBLICATIONS
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THE BIG PICTURE:
The Authority and Integrity of the Authentic Word of God
393 pp
Once more available
“The translators of the Authorised Version translated not only words, but they took with them the linguistic structure of the text. Wherever possible they retained the punctuation, clauses, and subordinate clauses, figures of speech, and more besides. They have given us a virtual transcription of the Hebrew and Greek texts in a style of English that has never been surpassed. Modern versions violate the integrity of the text,...and frequently reconstruct the text in such a way that the meaning is changed, obscured, or even lost altogether. Modern versions are consequently rarely a genuine translation but an equivalent, a rewriting of the Bible. We do not need an ‘equivalent’, either formal or dynamic, but a faithful and sympathetic rendering of the Scriptures in a language we can readily understand.” (p. 346)
For further information go to BIG PICTURE and to order go to PUBLICATIONS
Longer extracts here: SCRIPTURES