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Critique of new RVG-only book "God's Bible in Spanish"

This is a critique of God's Bible in Spanish: How God Preserved His Words in Spanish Through the RVG published by Chick Publications and edited by Emanuel (Manny) Rodríguez. In addition to the editor, Humberto Gómez is listed as holding the copyright for the book. I refer to it as an RVG-only book, because the Reina-Valera-Gomez was presented as the only valid Spanish Bible, in spite of other versions available based on the Textus Receptus.

This critique will be published in stages as it is completed.  read more »

Is it wrong to say God inspired the writers of the Bible?

In recent years I have noticed an increasing trend in Fundamentalism objecting to statements to the effect that the writers of Scripture were inspired. It often comes across in clichés such as “God inspired the words, not the writers.” At least one Fundamentalist has written repeatedly that it is heresy to refer to inspired writers. The following are two examples of what is being taught along these lines by different authors:

… NOR THE ORIGINAL PENMEN OF THE BIBLE were inspired. It is the WORDS of Scripture which are inspired.  read more »

J. Hudson Taylor on inspiration

How this amazing missionary proved the Bible

By J. Hudson Taylor, D. D. Founder of the China Inland Mission
(Given at D. L. Moody's Northfield Conference, Summer, 1888)

Two questions have been put into my hands on the subject of inspiration.

One is: "'Are we not in the danger of trying to make Scripture mean too much—for instance, by insisting on verbal inspiration?" Well, dear friends; try and make it mean too much. Try and get half of its fullness.  read more »

Books by or about KJV translators

Books by KJV translators

Digital versions of 13 of these books are available for free reading online. Access to digital versions of some of the other rare books are available through EEBO (Early English Books Online). Access to EEBO is provided through some university libraries.  read more »