Christianity today consists of several opposing camps that uncomfortably co-exist under the same umbrella. Fundamentalists interpret the Bible literally and reject modern thinking as sacrilegious while apologists denounce or reinterpret verses deemed too intolerant by today’s standards. Other Christians deplore all this segmentation and yearn for a unity that they believe to have existed in the past. Contrary to popular belief, however, early Christianity was not a monolithic faith. In a lot of ways, it was even more divided than it is today, and many of the common points of contention were hotly debated and disputed in print.
Examples include:
Male circumcision: Some early leaders believed that Christians should join the Jews in following the Law of Moses regarding circumcision while others felt it wasn’t necessary.
The Virgin Birth: The faithful embraced it as a miracle while skeptics questioned how such a thing was even possible.
Lapsed Christians: Many Christians renounced their faith to avoid torture and death. Some religious leaders felt that they should be welcomed back while others saw it as cheapening the sacrifice of martyrdom.
If you’re interested in this contentious aspect of theological history, you’ll want to check out the 300+ books on this collection Topics include historical evidence for the Virgin Birth, dialogues between Jews and Christians, and Bible passages that were allegedly mistranslated. Together, they present a fascinating look at how Christian belief systems have developed. Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
Two Virgin Births - One in the New Testament, One in the Old, article in Christian faith and life Magazine 1912
ISAIAH'S PREDICTION OF THE MOTHER OF MESSIAH (Isaiah 7:14), article in The Methodist Review 1902
The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth by Vincent Taylor 1920
The Prophecy of the Virgin Mother(Isaiah 7:14), article in TheHomiletic Review 1889
The Only Begotten God, article in the Modern Review 1883
Alleged Disagreement between Paul and James, article in The Bibliotheca sacra and American biblical repository 1852
The Revised Version and the Deity of Christ, article in The Gospel herald 1882
Notes on the amended English Bible with special reference to certain texts By Henry Ierson
Brief Review of the New Revision by JH Bacon 1881
The Bible - What it is and is not by Joseph Wood 1892
Dialogue between a Jew and a Christian by Selig Newman - 1850
Prof. Stuart and Dr. Henderson on 1 Timothy 3:16 (God manifest in the flesh - or - who was manifest in the flesh) - lengthy article in the Bible Repository 1832
Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture by Isaac Newton 1841
THE BAPTISMAL FORMULA OF MATT. 28:19, IN THE LIGHT OF JESUS' UNQUESTIONABLE TEACHING -GEORGE HOLLEY GILBERT, Ph.d., D.D., article in the Biblical World 1909
THE BAPTISMAL FORMULA [Matthew 28:19] OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE. article in the Methodist Review 1903 "It is difficult to suppose that it was employed in the early days with which we are concerned; for it involves a conception of the nature of the rite which was entirely foreign to the thought of these primitive Christians and, indeed, no less foreign to the thought of Paul."
On the Use of Jehovah and Elohim in the Pentateuch 1869
A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures by William Fulke 1843
Critical Papers on Messianic Texts (Isaiah 7:14), article in The Scattered nation and Jewish Christian magazine by F Tilney Bassett 1869
On 2 Peter 1:20 - chapter in _'The mystery' with Scripture proofs demolishing criticisms on the first edition_By James Johnstone 1858
A Help for English readers to understand Mistranslated Passages in our Bible by JH Murray 1881
The Greek word aio-n-aio-nios by John Wesley Hanson 1879
THE BIBLE HELL: The words rendered hell in the bible, sheol, hadees, tartarus, and gehenna by JW Hanson 1888
The Last 12 verses of the Gospel according to Mark vindicated against recent critical objectors and established by John Burgon 1871
The Last 12 Verses of Mark, their Genuineness Established by Ivan Panin 1910
The Word Baptizo Defined and the mode of Baptism Proved from the Scriptures by John Hall 1840
Ezra Abbot on John 8:44
Ezra Abbot on 1 John 5:7 in Luther's Bible
Ezra Abbot on Romans 9:5
Ezra Abbot on Titus 2:13
Winstanley on Titus 2:13
Ezra Abbot on the "Only-Begotten God"
Ezra Abbot on Acts 20:28
The Gospel of St John by Westcott 1892 (Interesting comments on John 1:1 and John 20:28) "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and MY GOD)...and the words which follow shew that the Lord accepted declaration of HIS DIVINITY as the TRUE EXPRESSION OF FAITH. HE NEVER SPEAKS OF HIMSELF DIRECTLY AS GOD (comp. v. 18), but the aim of His revelation was to lead men to SEE GOD IN HIM."
Remarks on the uses of the definitive article in the Greek text of the New Testament 1803 by Granville Sharp
The 4th Gospel in Research and Debate; a series of essays on problems concerning the origin and value of the anonymous writings attributed to the apostle John 1910 by Benjamin Bacon
The SON OF MAN in the Usage of Jesus
An Examination of some of the more important texts in the New Testament by Francis Tilney Bassett 1883
Comparative Translation of Jeremiah 31:33,34 - A Study in modernizing the English Bible, article in the Biblical World 1904
The Virgin Birth of the Son Immanuel (Almah, Virgin) article in the Biblical World 1904
Quotes on the Validity of Matthew 28:19, 20
My thoughts on the proper translation of John 10:33 by Heinz Schmitz
On John 20:28 by Heinz Schmitz
On Luke 23:43 and the Comma by Heinz Schmitz
Romans 8:23 and the New World Translation by Heinz Schmitz
The Word Was Fully God by Heinz Schmitz
The Word was Like God by Heinz Schmitz
Our Misunderstood Bible - Common Errors about Bible Texts and Truths by Henry Clay Trumbull 1907
Errors of the Scriptures by Frederic Gardiner 1879
Clerical errors in the Reading of the Bible, a collection of passages which are commonly read incorrectly by Henry William Pullen 1879
The Scripture of Truth: its origin, its languages, its translations, its canon, its symbols, its inspiration, its alleged errors and contradictions, its plan, its science, other sacred books by Sidney Collette 1922
Mistakes in Religion Exposed, in an essay on the prophecy of Zacharias by the Rev. Henry Venn 1799
Some Mistakes of Moses by Robert Green Ingersoll 1879
The Mistakes of Ingersoll by Thomas McGrady 1898
The Anglican Proper Psalms - Critical and Exegetical notes on obscure and corrupt passages in the Hebrew text, in the Light of Modern Knowledge 1915 by Charles Godwin
The story of the Revised New Testament, American Standard Bible by Matthew Riddle 1908
The Student's Chronological New Testament: Text of the American Standard Revision 1904 by A.T. Robertson
Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis 1882 (many pages hard to read, but it has a lot of great articles)
Journal of Biblical Literature 1897
Journal of Biblical literature 1890
Journal of Biblical literature 1902
THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD 1866
THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD 1857
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Samuel Greene 1867
Biblical Hermeneutics - Jacob Élisée Cellérier 1888
Hermeneutics of the New Testament by Albert Immer 1877
The Historical Jesus of Nazareth 1876 by Max Schlesinger
THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS BY ALBERT SCHWEITZER (searchable PDF)
The Historical Jesus by Charles Piepenbring
The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss - 1892
The Resurrection In The New Testament An Examination Of The Earliest References To The Rising Of Jesus And Of Christians From The Dead (1911) Clayton Raymond Bowen
A critical essay on the Gospel of St. Luke (1825) by Schleiermacher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German theologian and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy.
The Jesus of History by T.R. Glover
The Jesus of History by Richard Hanson 1869
The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History by D.M. Ross 1921
The Jesus of History and the Jesus of Tradition Identified by George Solomon 1880
THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYS By John Fiske 1876
The Historical Jesus and the Theological Christ by JE Carpenter 1912
The Historical Jesus and the Christs of Faith, article in the Contemporary Review 1896
The Christ of History and of Experience by David Forrest 1901
The Historicity of Jesus - A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Existed by Shirley Jackson Case 1912
The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus by Arthur Drews 1912
The Historicity of Jesus - An Estimate of the Negative Argument, article in The American Journal of Theology 1911
The Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews by Harris Lachlan MacNeill 1914
Did Jesus Really Live?: A debate held in Orchestra Hall 1908
Jesus: Myth, Man or God by JM Peebles 1870
Did Jesus Really Live? A Reply to The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews 1911
The Historical New Testament by James Moffatt 1901
Did Jesus Write his own Gospel? by WP MacVey 1912
The Jesus of the Gospels, article in The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review 1872
What was Primitive Christianity, article in Frasers Magazine 1875
Jesus: Mythical and Real - Article in The Dublin University Magazine 1868
Belief in God- An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic Problems to which is added The Intellectual Basis of Faith 1881
WATER BAPTISM A PAGAN AND JEWISH RITE, BUT NOT CHRISTIAN PROVEN BY SCRIPTURE AND HISTORY CONFIRMED BY THE LIVES OF SAINTS WHO WERE NEVER BAPTIZED WITH WATER By James H. Moon 1902
Immersion proved to be not a scriptural mode of baptism, but a Romish Invention: and immersionists shewn to be disregarding divine authority in refusing baptism to the infant children of believers (1880)
Modern Immersion not Scripture Baptism (1831) by William Thorn
Rhantism versus Baptism or Infant Sprinkling against Christian Immersion by Ellison Seacome 1835
A Question in Baptist History - Whether the Anabaptists in England Practiced Immersion Before the year 1641 By William Heth Whitsitt 1896
A Vindication of Trine Immersion as the Apostolic Form of Christian Baptism by James Quinter 1886
The Baptismal Question: A Discussion of the Baptismal Question by Joseph Hardy Towne, Parsons Cooke, William Hague 1842
Why Friends (Quakers) Do Not Baptize with Water by James H. Moon 1909
The History of infant-baptism by William Wall 1707
The Word Baptizo Defined - and the mode of baptism proved from the scriptures (1840) by John H. Hall
Baptist Dishonesty: misquotations and other gross misrepresentations in the recent pamphlet on baptism of the Baptist minister, Rev. A.A. Cameron, of Ottawa (1876) by John Bethune
PedoBaptist and Campbellite Immersions by A.C. Dayton 1858
Cambellism Exposed 1860
A history of Anti-pedobaptism from the rise of pedobaptism to A.D. 1609 by Albert Newman 1897
The Baptism of Infants, a reasonable service, founded upon Scripture, and undoubted Apostolic tradition 1753 by Micaiah Towgood
Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy by Henry Wace, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Connor Magee, William Hurrell Mallock, Humphry Ward 1889
A History of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament by Marvin Richardson Vincent 1899
The Problem of the Old Testament Considered with Reference to Recent Criticism by James Orr 1906
Old Testament Criticism and the Christian Church by John Edgar McFadyen 1903
History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss 1884 (Volume 2) "Johann Salomo Semler was the first to undertake to improve upon the common conceptions of the canon. He gave to his criticism an essentially historical basis by commending and practicing the study of the ancient ecclesiastical literature, thus leading to a recognition of the gradual and fluctuating formation of our present collection."
Reconstruction in Theology by Henry Churchill King 1901
The higher criticism and the Bible by William Binnington Boyce 1881
A Reply to Harnack on the Essence of Christianity by Hermann Cremer 1903
The Genesis of Genesis by Benjamin Wisner Bacon 1891
THE HIGHER CRITICISM: REASONS FOR CAUTION IN ACCEPTING ITS CONCLUSIONS. By Rev. W. Frank Scott, article in The Magazine of Christian literature 1893
The Higher Criticism by Mrs. Florence Allen Taylor, article in The Metaphysical Magazine 1906
The Bankruptcy of the Higher Criticism, article in The Literary Digest 1905
The Holy Scriptures and the Higher Criticism, article in The American illustrated Methodist magazine 1901
Alleged Progress in Theology - Higher Criticism, Article in the Methodist Magazine 1891
Whither the Higher Criticism Tends, article in the Original Secession Magazine 1884
Theology in Transition and the Bible in Suspence, article in the Wesleyan-Methodist magazine 1893
My Experience with Higher Criticism, article in the Protestant Magazine 1911
Is the Higher Criticism Scientific? Article in The Review of the Churches Magazine 1892
Present Position of Pentateuch Criticism, article in the Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine 1886
Modern Criticism of the Pentateuch: Objections to it by Matthew Leitch, article in The Treasury - a magazine for Evangelicals 1899
The Quarterly Review 1863 "Truly the higher criticism indulges in strange assertions and very absurd difficulties! With regard to the second passage, we may ask why a Redactor and an Elohist are to be called into existence to explain the alternation of names in this passage more than in Exod. iii. 4, Ps. xxxvi. 6-8, or Ps. Ixix. 13, 30-35, &c. &c. It is not the higher criticism, but plain common sense, which is needed to reject such arguments. But this is only one proof out of many that the magic wand of modern exegesis transforms that which would be esteemed worthless in the mouth of a believer into 'high criticism' in that of a sceptical commentator."
The New Appreciation of the Bible by Willard Chamberlain Selleck 1906
The Old Testament and the New Scholarship by John Punnett Peters 1902
The Bible in the Nineteenth Century: Eight Lectures by Joseph Estlin Carpenter 1903
Dr. Friedrich Bleek's Lectures on the Apocalypse by Friedrich Bleek, Samuel Davidson 1875
Evidences of Christianity by Lonsdale Ragg 1909
Six lectures on the Higher Criticism upon the Old Testament by William Binnington Boyce 1878
Founders of Old Testament Criticism: Biographical, Descriptive, and Critical by Thomas Kelly Cheyne 1893
Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts: Being a History of the Text by Frederic George Kenyon 1898
The Text of the New Testament by Kirsopp Lake 1908
The Christ of Today by George Angier Gordon 1896
Theology at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century: Essays on the Present Status by John Vyrnwy Morgan 1900 (many dark pages)
The Higher Criticism: An Outline of Modern Biblical Study by Charles Wesley Rishell 1893
The Books of Chronicles in Relation to the Pentateuch and the "higher criticism" by Arthur Charles Hervey 1892
Kanamori's Life-story Told by Himself: How the Higher Criticism Wrecked a Japanese Christian - And How He Came Back by Paul M. Kanamori - 1921
Thought and Religion: Or, The Mutual Contributions of Philosophy and Theology by James William Lowber 1912
Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly?: Clearly Attested Facts Showing that the Destructive "assured results of modern criticism" are indefensible, by Robert Dick Wilson 1922
Results of Higher Criticism: As Applied to the Old Testament by Winfield Scott Crowe 1894
The Life of Jesus in the Light of the Higher Criticism by Alfred Wilhelm Martin 1913 (first 279 pages only)
The Authority of Holy Scripture: An Inaugural Address by Charles Augustus Briggs 1891
The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch by Charles Augustus Briggs 1893
The Crisis of the Churches by Leighton Parks 1922 (first 222 pages only)
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach 1881
The Pentateuch in the Light of To-day: Being a Simple Introduction to the Pentateuch on the Lines of Higher Criticism by Alfred Holborn 1902
The Failure of the "higher Criticism" of the Bible by Emil Reich 1905 "The sad truth is that Higher Criticism is an act of retrograde, decadent science; an act, a method long condemned and laughed at in various other branches of historical and legal study."
An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament by Samuel Rolles Driver 1914
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss - 1892
Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article Israel from the Encyclopedia Brittanica by Julius Wellhausen 1885
St. Matthew's gospel, with the parallel passages in the other evangelists edited by James Stark - 1878
"The passage in Rom. ix. 5, saying that Christ is 'God blessed for ever,' is an indefensible mistranslation of the Greek, violating all the rules of grammar, but, of course, also made for the purpose of supporting the doctrine of the Trinity. The Greek text distinctly says : ' Of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh. May the living supreme God be blessed for ever. Amen. ' In like manner, the first verse of John's Gospel is a disgraceful mistranslation, from the translators purposely putting in the definite article when there is none in the Greek, so as to make the passage teach the very opposite doctrine of what the original Greek does. The correct translation is : 'In a beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH THE GOD, and the Word WAS A GOD
A discussion among upwards of 250 theological inquirers by Ranley 1864
"REV. J. SUCKLING. Has anyone, Mr. Chairman, yet broached the Three heavenly Witnesses? What can the Unitarians make of that formidable and unanswerable Text ?
Chairman, The Three heavenly Witnesses have not been introduced, Mr. Suckling; though, of course, familiar to all present.
SUCKLING. Well then, I put it to the Unitarians to say, what possesses them, to deny the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, so plainly made known in the New testament.
REV. H. BROOKE. I peremptorily deny, that any mention whatever is made of the incongruous Trinity in the Bible ; I also deny that any mention is made in the New testament of the so called Three heavenly Witnesses, to which Mr. Suckling so confidently alludes.
SUCKLING. Do you hear that, Mr. Chairman ?
Chairman. Yes, Sir; distinctly.
SUCKLING. Why, Sir, it is the very cornerstone of the rock of my faith! I rest my belief of the holy Trinity, on that very foundation; on that very emphatic text.
MR. S.WESLEY. Then, we shall soon make aUnitarian of you, Mr. Suckling; for, instead of rock, you will find your foundation is resting on sand, which we shall speedily wash away from under you. [Hear, hear!]
SUCKLING. My foundation, Sir, rests on God's own Word —
There are Three that bear record in heaven ; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these Three are One".
This text is my proof, my incontestible proof, of the holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity; "which Faith, except one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt, he shall perish everlastingly!"
G. CANNING, ESQ. I hope not, Mr. Suckling ; as I can never again believe in the Trinity, be the peril what it may. Happily, no mention is made of your pagan Trinity in either the Jewish or Christian scriptures; nor does any such popish and self-contradictory text as you pretend to quote, form part or parcel of the New covenant — the Christian's special guide. I presume,
Mr. Chairman, the reason for its not having been brought forward at an earlier stage of the Discussion, arose from the general conviction among our Trinitarian friends, that the passage is spurious — an interpolation, abominable falsification of the Scriptures, not to be found in any accredited Manuscript; a gross imposition on the credulity of mankind! and I trust Mr. Suckling may be the only religious Instructor present, who attaches any importance to the heterogeneous and foolish words."
Aion aionios: The Greek Word Translated Everlasting, Eternal in the Holy Bible by John Wesley Hanson 1878
An Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to S. Matthew by Alfred Plummer 1910
"The question of the genuineness of the verse (Matthew 28:19, 20) may be answered with the utmost confidence. • The verse is found in every extant Greek MS., whether uncial or cursive, and in every extant Version, which contains this portion of Mt. In a few witnesses the conclusion of the Gospel is wanting, but there is no reason for believing that in these witnesses the verse or any portion of it was omitted. It has been argued by F. C. Conybeare (Hibbert Journal for Oct. 1902) and by Professor Lake (Inaugural Lecture at Leiden, 27 Jan. 1904) that the clause, 'baptizing them . . . Holy Spirit' was very early interpolated for dogmatic reasons in some copies of Mt., and that it was not firmly established as part of "this Gospel till after the Council of Nicea."
Plea for a new English version of the Scriptures by David Johnston - 1864
THE HOLY GOSPELS: from the Original Greek
THE SPURIOUS PASSAGES EXPUNGED; THE DOUBTFUL BRACKETED; AND THE WHOLE REVISED AFTER THE TEXTS OF GRIESBACH, LACHMANN, TISCHENDORF, ALFORD, AND TREGELLES. WITH NOTES AND CRITICAL APPENDIX. by George William Brameld - 1863
The Restored New Testament by James Morgan Pryse 1914
The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton 1871
Bible difficulties explained by John Grigg Hewlett 1860
The Corruptions of the New Testament by Horace Lorenzo Hastings 1884
The Apocryphal New Testament: Being All the Gospels, Epistles, by Jeremiah Jones - 1824
Bible Doctrine: A Treatise on the Great Doctrines of the Bible, Pertaining by Daniel Kauffman 1914
Critical Essays by Ezra Abbot.
Contents:
THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL, THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN AITEW AND EPWTAW, ANCIENT PAPYRUS AND THE MODE OF MAKING PAPER FROM IT, THE COMPARATIVE ANTIQUITY OF THE SINAITIC AND VATICAN MANUSCRIPTS or THE GREEK BIBLE, THE LATE PROFESSOR TISCHENDORF, THE LATE DR. TREGELLES, GERHARD VON MASTRICHT, BUTTMANN's GREEK TESTAMENT, WESTCOTT AND HORT's EDITION OF THE GREEK TESTAMENT, THE NEW TESTAMENT GREEK, THE GOSPELS IN THE NEW REVISION (three articles), THE READING "ONLY-BEGOTTEN GOD," IN JOHN i.18, THE READING "AN ONLY-BEGOTTEN GOD," OR "GOD ONLY-
BEGOTTEN," JOHN i. 18, THE TEXT OF JOHN viii. 44, THE READING " CHURCH OF GOD, ACTS XX. 28, THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMANS ix. 5, RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF ROMANS ix. 5
TITUS ii. 13
I JOHN v. 7, AND LUTHER'S GERMAN BIBLE,
THE VERSE-DIVISIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
The Evolution of the English Bible
by Henry William Hamilton-Hoare, H W. HOARE 1901
The New Testament by Abner Kneeland 1823 - poor quality scan, many words unreadable, 2 pages missing. (translated John 1:1 as "the Word was a God.")
Outlines of textual criticism applied to the New Testament
by Charles Edward Hammond - 1880
... the grammatical possibility of which may well be questioned. (8) Acts xx. 28. There are six readings here to decide between...
Catholic controversy. A reply to dr. Littledale's 'Plain reasons'
by Henry Ignatius D. Ryder, Richard Frederick Littledale - 1881
The Sixtine Bible.
The mistakes in Sixtus V.'s edition of the Bible only
prove, what it never entered into an Ultramontane's
heart to deny, that a Pope may issue an edition of the
Bible, and inaugurate it as the standard edition in the
most emphatic manner, without any security against mistakes.
The Tridentine Decree (sess. iv.), which infallibly
declared the Vulgate authentic, i.e., a sufficient
rendering of the original, neither guaranteed any existing
recension from minor errors, nor secured such immunity
for the future.
A Calm Inquiry Into the Scripture Doctrine Concerning the Person of Christ
by Thomas Belsham - 1817 - 337 pages
The Errors of the Bible Demonstrated by the Truths of Nature
by Henry Clarke Wright 1858
An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield 1899
Hermann Heinfetter's New Testament
"In commencing this dispensation, the command was existing, yet the command was with the God, as the command had relation to a God.
A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism
Christology by Levi Leonard Paine- 1900
Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Gospel: A View of the Scriptural Grounds of ...
by Lant Carpenter
A PLEA FOR THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE TEXT OF THE THREE HEAVENLY WITNESSES: OR PORSON'S LETTERS TO TRAVIS ECLECTICALLY EXAMINED THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL EVIDENCES FOR 1 JOHN V. 7 ECLECTICALLY RE-SURVEYED. BY THE REV. CHAELES FOESTEB
Antitrinitarian Biography by Robert Wallace 1850
The Four Gospels Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations
by George Campbell - 1837
"Others maintain that QEOS here should be translated "a God was the word.'"
The Freewill Baptist Quarterly - 1866
We open to John 1: 1—5, and copy the word for word translation:—"In a beginning was the word, and the word was with the God, and a God was the word. ...
What is the Truth about Jesus Christ?: Problems of Christology
by Friedrich Loofs - 1913
Discourses on the Principal Points of the Socinian Controversy
by Ralph Wardlaw - 1828
One God in One Person Only: And Jesus Christ a Being Distinct from God
by John Sherman - 1805
Unitarianism Defined: The Scripture Doctrine of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost by Frederick Augustus Farley 1860
A Discourse on Denying the Lord Jesus.
by Bernard Whitman - 1827
Qualitative Nouns in the Pauline Epistles and Their Translation in the ...
by Arthur Wakefield Slaten - Bible - 1918
The Testament of Jesus
by Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy - 1901
John answered them, saying, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was a God, and the Word was the sacred Spirit of God. ...
The English Works of Raja Rammohun Roy
by Rammohun Roy- 1906
1, " the word was a God" ? We may, however, easily account for this inconsistency.
The term " God " in, Exodus is applied to Moses, the notion of whose ...
Discussion of the Existence of God, and the Authenticity of the Bible
by Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 350 pages
The apparent contradictions, misstatements, absurdities, &c., of the Bible, which sceptics urge as objections against it, are so many evidences of its original authenticity.
The crisis: a series of pamphlets in sixteen numbers
by Thomas Paine
Bible Contradictions -Bible Prophecies Concerning Babylon.
The Divine Authority of the Bible
by George Frederick Wright - 1884 - 230 pages
Elements of Christian Theology: Containing Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Scriptures by George Tomline -- 1818
The Pillar of Divine Truth Immoveably Fixed on the Foundation of the Apostles
by William Greenfield - 1831 - 265 pages
Theopneusty: Or, The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures
by Louis Gaussen - 1844 - 400 pages
The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted
by Samuel Noble - 1828 - 430 pages
A Refutation of Arianism: Or, A Defence of the Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures by John Paul - 1828 - 310 pages
The Bible: Its Meaning and Supremacy
by Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 350 pages
The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures
by Eleazar Lord - 1857 - 301 pages
The Evidences of Christianity: Stated in a Popular and Practical Manner
by Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1832
Systematic Theology
by Charles Hodge 1873
The Inspiration of the Scriptures
by Alexander Carson, John Dick, John Pye Smith, Daniel Wilson - 1853 - 410 pages
Analytical Investigations Concerning the Credibility of the Scriptures
by J. H. McCulloh - 1852
Holy Scripture verified; or, The divine authority of the Bible confirmed by ... - Page 196
by George Redford - Bible - 1837
The Bible of Bibles: Or, Twenty-seven "Divine Revelations"
by Kersey Graves, Lydia M. Graves -- 1879 - 430 pages
BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS-TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN.
Conversations on the Bible: Its Statements Harmonized and Mysteries Explained by Enoch Pond - 1886 - 620 pages
The Bible and Reason Against Atheism: In a Series of Letters to a Friend
by Martin Luther Edwards - 1881 - 230 pages
... The Virgin Mary—Bible Contradictions—How They Are Made Out, and How Little They Amount to-A Delicate Task
The 'holy Scriptures' analyzed; or, Extracts from the Bible, shewing its Contradictions and Absurdities edited by Robert Cooper - 1840
plus FREE - An Examination of the Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible by John W. Haley MA - 1875
A new history of the Holy Bible : from the beginning of the world to the establishment of Christianity : with answers to most of the controverted questions, dissertations upon the most remarkable passages, and a connection of profane history all along : to which are added, notes, explaining difficult texts, rectifying mistranslations, and reconciling seeming contradictions by Thomas Stackhouse 1680-1752 (incomplete and scattered over 3 volumes)
The Ancestry of our English Bible by Ira Maurice Price Ph.D 1907
The Bible Triumphant - 12 Dozen Skeptical Arguments Refuted - A Reply to an Infidel work entitled 144 Self-contradictions of the Bible by Mrs. H. V. Reed 1882
The Underwood-Marples Debate 1877
THE UNNOTICED THINGS OF SCRIPTURE. BY THE RIGHT REV. WM. INGRAHAM KIP, D.D 1879
The Problem of Evil: A Criticism of the Augustinian Point of View
by Marion Le Roy Burton 1909
Theodicy; essays on divine providence by Antonio Rosmini Volume 1 1912
Theodicy; essays on divine providence by Antonio Rosmini Volume 2 1912
The Justification of God: Lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy by Peter Forsyth 1917
The Crook in the Lot, or, A display of the Sovereignty and Wisdom of God in the Afflictions of men, and the Christian's deportment under them by Thomas Boston 1848
The God that Jesus Saw by WG Horder 1921
Theodicy in The National Magazine 1855
The Problem of Evil (Article) in the Young Men's Christian Magazine 1877
The philosophical works of Leibnitz 1890
Three essays on religion by John Stuart Mill 1874
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
A Theodicy by Albert Bledsoe 1854
Immortality and the new theodicy by George Gordon 1897
The Science of Natural Theology by Asa Mahan 1867
The Problem of Evil by R. Hastings 1912
The Problem of Evil in Plotinus by B.A.G. Fuller 1912
History of the Problems of Philosophy Volume 1 by Paul Janet 1902
History of the Problems of Philosophy Volume 2 by Paul Janet 1902
Optimism and Pessimism or, The Problem of Evil 1871 by Jacob Frohschammer
The Problem of Evil: An Introduction to the Practical Sciences
by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson 1887
Moral Uses of Dark Things
by Horace Bushnell - 1880
Does God Send Trouble?: An Earnest Effort to Discern Between Christian Tradition and Truth
by Charles Cuthbert Hall 1894
An Essay on the Origin of Evil
by William King 1781
The Problem of Evil: Seven Lectures
by Ernest Naville 1871
Is the Devil a Myth?
by Charles Franklin Wimberly 1913
Daemonologia Sacra: Or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations
by Richard Gilpin 1677
Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil - G.W. LEIBNIZ (searchable PDF)
Evil & Evolution: An Attempt to Turn the Light of Modern Science on to the Ancient Mystery of Evil
by George Francis Millin 1896
Good and Evil: A Study in Biblical Theology
by Loring Woart Batten - Good and evil - 1918
The Origin of Evil, and Other Sermons Preached in St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens by Alfred Williams Momerie 1885
The Nature of Goodness (first 258 pages)
by George Herbert Palmer 1903
The Theory of Good and Evil: A Treatise on Moral Philosophy
by Hastings Rashdall 1907
Studies of Good and Evil: A Series of Essays Upon Problems of Philosophy and of Life by Josiah Royce 1898
The Conflict of Good and Evil in Our Day: Twelve Letters to a Missionary
by Frederick Denison Maurice 1865
A Modern Job: An Essay on the Problem of Evil
by Etienne Giran, Alfred Leslie Lilley 1916
Life's Dark Problems: Or, is this a Good World?
by Minot Judson Savage 1905
Man's Responsibility: Or, How and Why, the Almighty Introduced Evil Upon the Earth
by Thomas G. Carson 1905
The Problem of Evil: An Introduction to the Practical Sciences
by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson 1887
The Mystery: Or, Evil and God
by John Young 1856
The Anti-universalist: Or History of the Fallen Angels of the Scriptures, Proofs of the Being of Satan and of Evil Spirits
by Josiah Priest 1837
The Gospel for a World of Sin
by Henry Van Dyke 1899
The Nature of Evil: Considered in a Letter to the Rev. Edward Beecher by Henry James 1855
The Goodness of God in View of the Facts of Nature and the Supernatural by George Thomson Knight 1904
Whatever Is, is Right
by Asaph Bemis Child 1861
An Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil
by John Clarke 1725
Beneficence of Design in the Problem of Evil 1849
The Great Exorcism
by Arthur Crane 1915
An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Doctrine Concerning the Devil and Satan by Walter Balfour 1827
The Book of Adam and Eve: Also Called the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan by Solomon Caesar Malan 1882
Satan as a Moral Philosopher: With Other Essays and Sketches
by Caleb Sprague Henry - 1877
Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
by John Milton - 1750
The religion of Protestants a Safeway to Salvation by William Chillingworth - a very early book to discuss Sola Scriptura
Dangers of Jesuit Instruction - Brownson's Quarterly Review 1846
Martin Luther's Bible Translation 1847 (German) - the man who brought Sola Scripture to the world
Popery Calmly Considered by John Welsey
"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church."
The Truths of the Catholic Religion Proved from Scripture Alone by Thomas Bulter 1857, Volume 1
The Truths of the Catholic Religion Proved from Scripture Alone by Thomas Bulter 1857, Volume 2
Theopneusty: Or, The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures by Louis Gaussen - 1844
A Disputation on Holy Scripture Against the Papists by William Whittaker 1849
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine 1860
[IS THE BIBLE ALONE A SUFFICIENT RULE OF FAITH?]
The Inspiration of the Scriptures by Francis Patton 1869
Geneva Bible 1599 - The first English Bible to deal with this doctrine in the notes
The Divine Authority of the Bible by George Frederick Wright - 1884
Holy Scripture verified; or, The divine authority of the Bible by George Redford 1837
The Westminster Confession of Faith
"VII. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them."
How We Got Our Bible by J. Patterson Smyth 1915
The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures by Eleazar Lord - 1857
How we got our American Standard Bible
The Judgment of the Anglican Church on the Sufficiency of Holy Scripture 1838
Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible 1842
The Rule of Faith and the Doctrine of Inspiration by Robert Watts 1885
The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted by Samuel Noble 1828
The Bible Triumphant - 12 Dozen Skeptical Arguments Refuted by Mrs H.V. Reed 1882
The Sufficiency of Holy Scripture, a Prize Essay 1852 by Richard Glover
The Inspiration of the Scriptures - A Review of the Theories by Alexander Carson, John Dick, John Pye Smith, Daniel Wilson 1853
What is a Catholic by Rev. Xavier Sutton 1913
Examples include:
Male circumcision: Some early leaders believed that Christians should join the Jews in following the Law of Moses regarding circumcision while others felt it wasn’t necessary.
The Virgin Birth: The faithful embraced it as a miracle while skeptics questioned how such a thing was even possible.
Lapsed Christians: Many Christians renounced their faith to avoid torture and death. Some religious leaders felt that they should be welcomed back while others saw it as cheapening the sacrifice of martyrdom.
If you’re interested in this contentious aspect of theological history, you’ll want to check out the 300+ books on this collection Topics include historical evidence for the Virgin Birth, dialogues between Jews and Christians, and Bible passages that were allegedly mistranslated. Together, they present a fascinating look at how Christian belief systems have developed. Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
Two Virgin Births - One in the New Testament, One in the Old, article in Christian faith and life Magazine 1912
ISAIAH'S PREDICTION OF THE MOTHER OF MESSIAH (Isaiah 7:14), article in The Methodist Review 1902
The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth by Vincent Taylor 1920
The Prophecy of the Virgin Mother(Isaiah 7:14), article in TheHomiletic Review 1889
The Only Begotten God, article in the Modern Review 1883
Alleged Disagreement between Paul and James, article in The Bibliotheca sacra and American biblical repository 1852
The Revised Version and the Deity of Christ, article in The Gospel herald 1882
Notes on the amended English Bible with special reference to certain texts By Henry Ierson
Brief Review of the New Revision by JH Bacon 1881
The Bible - What it is and is not by Joseph Wood 1892
Dialogue between a Jew and a Christian by Selig Newman - 1850
Prof. Stuart and Dr. Henderson on 1 Timothy 3:16 (God manifest in the flesh - or - who was manifest in the flesh) - lengthy article in the Bible Repository 1832
Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture by Isaac Newton 1841
THE BAPTISMAL FORMULA OF MATT. 28:19, IN THE LIGHT OF JESUS' UNQUESTIONABLE TEACHING -GEORGE HOLLEY GILBERT, Ph.d., D.D., article in the Biblical World 1909
THE BAPTISMAL FORMULA [Matthew 28:19] OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE. article in the Methodist Review 1903 "It is difficult to suppose that it was employed in the early days with which we are concerned; for it involves a conception of the nature of the rite which was entirely foreign to the thought of these primitive Christians and, indeed, no less foreign to the thought of Paul."
On the Use of Jehovah and Elohim in the Pentateuch 1869
A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures by William Fulke 1843
Critical Papers on Messianic Texts (Isaiah 7:14), article in The Scattered nation and Jewish Christian magazine by F Tilney Bassett 1869
On 2 Peter 1:20 - chapter in _'The mystery' with Scripture proofs demolishing criticisms on the first edition_By James Johnstone 1858
A Help for English readers to understand Mistranslated Passages in our Bible by JH Murray 1881
The Greek word aio-n-aio-nios by John Wesley Hanson 1879
THE BIBLE HELL: The words rendered hell in the bible, sheol, hadees, tartarus, and gehenna by JW Hanson 1888
The Last 12 verses of the Gospel according to Mark vindicated against recent critical objectors and established by John Burgon 1871
The Last 12 Verses of Mark, their Genuineness Established by Ivan Panin 1910
The Word Baptizo Defined and the mode of Baptism Proved from the Scriptures by John Hall 1840
Ezra Abbot on John 8:44
Ezra Abbot on 1 John 5:7 in Luther's Bible
Ezra Abbot on Romans 9:5
Ezra Abbot on Titus 2:13
Winstanley on Titus 2:13
Ezra Abbot on the "Only-Begotten God"
Ezra Abbot on Acts 20:28
The Gospel of St John by Westcott 1892 (Interesting comments on John 1:1 and John 20:28) "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and MY GOD)...and the words which follow shew that the Lord accepted declaration of HIS DIVINITY as the TRUE EXPRESSION OF FAITH. HE NEVER SPEAKS OF HIMSELF DIRECTLY AS GOD (comp. v. 18), but the aim of His revelation was to lead men to SEE GOD IN HIM."
Remarks on the uses of the definitive article in the Greek text of the New Testament 1803 by Granville Sharp
The 4th Gospel in Research and Debate; a series of essays on problems concerning the origin and value of the anonymous writings attributed to the apostle John 1910 by Benjamin Bacon
The SON OF MAN in the Usage of Jesus
An Examination of some of the more important texts in the New Testament by Francis Tilney Bassett 1883
Comparative Translation of Jeremiah 31:33,34 - A Study in modernizing the English Bible, article in the Biblical World 1904
The Virgin Birth of the Son Immanuel (Almah, Virgin) article in the Biblical World 1904
Quotes on the Validity of Matthew 28:19, 20
My thoughts on the proper translation of John 10:33 by Heinz Schmitz
On John 20:28 by Heinz Schmitz
On Luke 23:43 and the Comma by Heinz Schmitz
Romans 8:23 and the New World Translation by Heinz Schmitz
The Word Was Fully God by Heinz Schmitz
The Word was Like God by Heinz Schmitz
Our Misunderstood Bible - Common Errors about Bible Texts and Truths by Henry Clay Trumbull 1907
Errors of the Scriptures by Frederic Gardiner 1879
Clerical errors in the Reading of the Bible, a collection of passages which are commonly read incorrectly by Henry William Pullen 1879
The Scripture of Truth: its origin, its languages, its translations, its canon, its symbols, its inspiration, its alleged errors and contradictions, its plan, its science, other sacred books by Sidney Collette 1922
Mistakes in Religion Exposed, in an essay on the prophecy of Zacharias by the Rev. Henry Venn 1799
Some Mistakes of Moses by Robert Green Ingersoll 1879
The Mistakes of Ingersoll by Thomas McGrady 1898
The Anglican Proper Psalms - Critical and Exegetical notes on obscure and corrupt passages in the Hebrew text, in the Light of Modern Knowledge 1915 by Charles Godwin
The story of the Revised New Testament, American Standard Bible by Matthew Riddle 1908
The Student's Chronological New Testament: Text of the American Standard Revision 1904 by A.T. Robertson
Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis 1882 (many pages hard to read, but it has a lot of great articles)
Journal of Biblical Literature 1897
Journal of Biblical literature 1890
Journal of Biblical literature 1902
THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD 1866
THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE AND BIBLICAL RECORD 1857
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Samuel Greene 1867
Biblical Hermeneutics - Jacob Élisée Cellérier 1888
Hermeneutics of the New Testament by Albert Immer 1877
The Historical Jesus of Nazareth 1876 by Max Schlesinger
THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS BY ALBERT SCHWEITZER (searchable PDF)
The Historical Jesus by Charles Piepenbring
The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss - 1892
The Resurrection In The New Testament An Examination Of The Earliest References To The Rising Of Jesus And Of Christians From The Dead (1911) Clayton Raymond Bowen
A critical essay on the Gospel of St. Luke (1825) by Schleiermacher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German theologian and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy.
The Jesus of History by T.R. Glover
The Jesus of History by Richard Hanson 1869
The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History by D.M. Ross 1921
The Jesus of History and the Jesus of Tradition Identified by George Solomon 1880
THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYS By John Fiske 1876
The Historical Jesus and the Theological Christ by JE Carpenter 1912
The Historical Jesus and the Christs of Faith, article in the Contemporary Review 1896
The Christ of History and of Experience by David Forrest 1901
The Historicity of Jesus - A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Existed by Shirley Jackson Case 1912
The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus by Arthur Drews 1912
The Historicity of Jesus - An Estimate of the Negative Argument, article in The American Journal of Theology 1911
The Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews by Harris Lachlan MacNeill 1914
Did Jesus Really Live?: A debate held in Orchestra Hall 1908
Jesus: Myth, Man or God by JM Peebles 1870
Did Jesus Really Live? A Reply to The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews 1911
The Historical New Testament by James Moffatt 1901
Did Jesus Write his own Gospel? by WP MacVey 1912
The Jesus of the Gospels, article in The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review 1872
What was Primitive Christianity, article in Frasers Magazine 1875
Jesus: Mythical and Real - Article in The Dublin University Magazine 1868
Belief in God- An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic Problems to which is added The Intellectual Basis of Faith 1881
WATER BAPTISM A PAGAN AND JEWISH RITE, BUT NOT CHRISTIAN PROVEN BY SCRIPTURE AND HISTORY CONFIRMED BY THE LIVES OF SAINTS WHO WERE NEVER BAPTIZED WITH WATER By James H. Moon 1902
Immersion proved to be not a scriptural mode of baptism, but a Romish Invention: and immersionists shewn to be disregarding divine authority in refusing baptism to the infant children of believers (1880)
Modern Immersion not Scripture Baptism (1831) by William Thorn
Rhantism versus Baptism or Infant Sprinkling against Christian Immersion by Ellison Seacome 1835
A Question in Baptist History - Whether the Anabaptists in England Practiced Immersion Before the year 1641 By William Heth Whitsitt 1896
A Vindication of Trine Immersion as the Apostolic Form of Christian Baptism by James Quinter 1886
The Baptismal Question: A Discussion of the Baptismal Question by Joseph Hardy Towne, Parsons Cooke, William Hague 1842
Why Friends (Quakers) Do Not Baptize with Water by James H. Moon 1909
The History of infant-baptism by William Wall 1707
The Word Baptizo Defined - and the mode of baptism proved from the scriptures (1840) by John H. Hall
Baptist Dishonesty: misquotations and other gross misrepresentations in the recent pamphlet on baptism of the Baptist minister, Rev. A.A. Cameron, of Ottawa (1876) by John Bethune
PedoBaptist and Campbellite Immersions by A.C. Dayton 1858
Cambellism Exposed 1860
A history of Anti-pedobaptism from the rise of pedobaptism to A.D. 1609 by Albert Newman 1897
The Baptism of Infants, a reasonable service, founded upon Scripture, and undoubted Apostolic tradition 1753 by Micaiah Towgood
Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy by Henry Wace, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Connor Magee, William Hurrell Mallock, Humphry Ward 1889
A History of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament by Marvin Richardson Vincent 1899
The Problem of the Old Testament Considered with Reference to Recent Criticism by James Orr 1906
Old Testament Criticism and the Christian Church by John Edgar McFadyen 1903
History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by Eduard Reuss 1884 (Volume 2) "Johann Salomo Semler was the first to undertake to improve upon the common conceptions of the canon. He gave to his criticism an essentially historical basis by commending and practicing the study of the ancient ecclesiastical literature, thus leading to a recognition of the gradual and fluctuating formation of our present collection."
Reconstruction in Theology by Henry Churchill King 1901
The higher criticism and the Bible by William Binnington Boyce 1881
A Reply to Harnack on the Essence of Christianity by Hermann Cremer 1903
The Genesis of Genesis by Benjamin Wisner Bacon 1891
THE HIGHER CRITICISM: REASONS FOR CAUTION IN ACCEPTING ITS CONCLUSIONS. By Rev. W. Frank Scott, article in The Magazine of Christian literature 1893
The Higher Criticism by Mrs. Florence Allen Taylor, article in The Metaphysical Magazine 1906
The Bankruptcy of the Higher Criticism, article in The Literary Digest 1905
The Holy Scriptures and the Higher Criticism, article in The American illustrated Methodist magazine 1901
Alleged Progress in Theology - Higher Criticism, Article in the Methodist Magazine 1891
Whither the Higher Criticism Tends, article in the Original Secession Magazine 1884
Theology in Transition and the Bible in Suspence, article in the Wesleyan-Methodist magazine 1893
My Experience with Higher Criticism, article in the Protestant Magazine 1911
Is the Higher Criticism Scientific? Article in The Review of the Churches Magazine 1892
Present Position of Pentateuch Criticism, article in the Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine 1886
Modern Criticism of the Pentateuch: Objections to it by Matthew Leitch, article in The Treasury - a magazine for Evangelicals 1899
The Quarterly Review 1863 "Truly the higher criticism indulges in strange assertions and very absurd difficulties! With regard to the second passage, we may ask why a Redactor and an Elohist are to be called into existence to explain the alternation of names in this passage more than in Exod. iii. 4, Ps. xxxvi. 6-8, or Ps. Ixix. 13, 30-35, &c. &c. It is not the higher criticism, but plain common sense, which is needed to reject such arguments. But this is only one proof out of many that the magic wand of modern exegesis transforms that which would be esteemed worthless in the mouth of a believer into 'high criticism' in that of a sceptical commentator."
The New Appreciation of the Bible by Willard Chamberlain Selleck 1906
The Old Testament and the New Scholarship by John Punnett Peters 1902
The Bible in the Nineteenth Century: Eight Lectures by Joseph Estlin Carpenter 1903
Dr. Friedrich Bleek's Lectures on the Apocalypse by Friedrich Bleek, Samuel Davidson 1875
Evidences of Christianity by Lonsdale Ragg 1909
Six lectures on the Higher Criticism upon the Old Testament by William Binnington Boyce 1878
Founders of Old Testament Criticism: Biographical, Descriptive, and Critical by Thomas Kelly Cheyne 1893
Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts: Being a History of the Text by Frederic George Kenyon 1898
The Text of the New Testament by Kirsopp Lake 1908
The Christ of Today by George Angier Gordon 1896
Theology at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century: Essays on the Present Status by John Vyrnwy Morgan 1900 (many dark pages)
The Higher Criticism: An Outline of Modern Biblical Study by Charles Wesley Rishell 1893
The Books of Chronicles in Relation to the Pentateuch and the "higher criticism" by Arthur Charles Hervey 1892
Kanamori's Life-story Told by Himself: How the Higher Criticism Wrecked a Japanese Christian - And How He Came Back by Paul M. Kanamori - 1921
Thought and Religion: Or, The Mutual Contributions of Philosophy and Theology by James William Lowber 1912
Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly?: Clearly Attested Facts Showing that the Destructive "assured results of modern criticism" are indefensible, by Robert Dick Wilson 1922
Results of Higher Criticism: As Applied to the Old Testament by Winfield Scott Crowe 1894
The Life of Jesus in the Light of the Higher Criticism by Alfred Wilhelm Martin 1913 (first 279 pages only)
The Authority of Holy Scripture: An Inaugural Address by Charles Augustus Briggs 1891
The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch by Charles Augustus Briggs 1893
The Crisis of the Churches by Leighton Parks 1922 (first 222 pages only)
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach 1881
The Pentateuch in the Light of To-day: Being a Simple Introduction to the Pentateuch on the Lines of Higher Criticism by Alfred Holborn 1902
The Failure of the "higher Criticism" of the Bible by Emil Reich 1905 "The sad truth is that Higher Criticism is an act of retrograde, decadent science; an act, a method long condemned and laughed at in various other branches of historical and legal study."
An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament by Samuel Rolles Driver 1914
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss - 1892
Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article Israel from the Encyclopedia Brittanica by Julius Wellhausen 1885
St. Matthew's gospel, with the parallel passages in the other evangelists edited by James Stark - 1878
"The passage in Rom. ix. 5, saying that Christ is 'God blessed for ever,' is an indefensible mistranslation of the Greek, violating all the rules of grammar, but, of course, also made for the purpose of supporting the doctrine of the Trinity. The Greek text distinctly says : ' Of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh. May the living supreme God be blessed for ever. Amen. ' In like manner, the first verse of John's Gospel is a disgraceful mistranslation, from the translators purposely putting in the definite article when there is none in the Greek, so as to make the passage teach the very opposite doctrine of what the original Greek does. The correct translation is : 'In a beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH THE GOD, and the Word WAS A GOD
A discussion among upwards of 250 theological inquirers by Ranley 1864
"REV. J. SUCKLING. Has anyone, Mr. Chairman, yet broached the Three heavenly Witnesses? What can the Unitarians make of that formidable and unanswerable Text ?
Chairman, The Three heavenly Witnesses have not been introduced, Mr. Suckling; though, of course, familiar to all present.
SUCKLING. Well then, I put it to the Unitarians to say, what possesses them, to deny the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, so plainly made known in the New testament.
REV. H. BROOKE. I peremptorily deny, that any mention whatever is made of the incongruous Trinity in the Bible ; I also deny that any mention is made in the New testament of the so called Three heavenly Witnesses, to which Mr. Suckling so confidently alludes.
SUCKLING. Do you hear that, Mr. Chairman ?
Chairman. Yes, Sir; distinctly.
SUCKLING. Why, Sir, it is the very cornerstone of the rock of my faith! I rest my belief of the holy Trinity, on that very foundation; on that very emphatic text.
MR. S.WESLEY. Then, we shall soon make aUnitarian of you, Mr. Suckling; for, instead of rock, you will find your foundation is resting on sand, which we shall speedily wash away from under you. [Hear, hear!]
SUCKLING. My foundation, Sir, rests on God's own Word —
There are Three that bear record in heaven ; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these Three are One".
This text is my proof, my incontestible proof, of the holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity; "which Faith, except one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt, he shall perish everlastingly!"
G. CANNING, ESQ. I hope not, Mr. Suckling ; as I can never again believe in the Trinity, be the peril what it may. Happily, no mention is made of your pagan Trinity in either the Jewish or Christian scriptures; nor does any such popish and self-contradictory text as you pretend to quote, form part or parcel of the New covenant — the Christian's special guide. I presume,
Mr. Chairman, the reason for its not having been brought forward at an earlier stage of the Discussion, arose from the general conviction among our Trinitarian friends, that the passage is spurious — an interpolation, abominable falsification of the Scriptures, not to be found in any accredited Manuscript; a gross imposition on the credulity of mankind! and I trust Mr. Suckling may be the only religious Instructor present, who attaches any importance to the heterogeneous and foolish words."
Aion aionios: The Greek Word Translated Everlasting, Eternal in the Holy Bible by John Wesley Hanson 1878
An Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to S. Matthew by Alfred Plummer 1910
"The question of the genuineness of the verse (Matthew 28:19, 20) may be answered with the utmost confidence. • The verse is found in every extant Greek MS., whether uncial or cursive, and in every extant Version, which contains this portion of Mt. In a few witnesses the conclusion of the Gospel is wanting, but there is no reason for believing that in these witnesses the verse or any portion of it was omitted. It has been argued by F. C. Conybeare (Hibbert Journal for Oct. 1902) and by Professor Lake (Inaugural Lecture at Leiden, 27 Jan. 1904) that the clause, 'baptizing them . . . Holy Spirit' was very early interpolated for dogmatic reasons in some copies of Mt., and that it was not firmly established as part of "this Gospel till after the Council of Nicea."
Plea for a new English version of the Scriptures by David Johnston - 1864
THE HOLY GOSPELS: from the Original Greek
THE SPURIOUS PASSAGES EXPUNGED; THE DOUBTFUL BRACKETED; AND THE WHOLE REVISED AFTER THE TEXTS OF GRIESBACH, LACHMANN, TISCHENDORF, ALFORD, AND TREGELLES. WITH NOTES AND CRITICAL APPENDIX. by George William Brameld - 1863
The Restored New Testament by James Morgan Pryse 1914
The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton 1871
Bible difficulties explained by John Grigg Hewlett 1860
The Corruptions of the New Testament by Horace Lorenzo Hastings 1884
The Apocryphal New Testament: Being All the Gospels, Epistles, by Jeremiah Jones - 1824
Bible Doctrine: A Treatise on the Great Doctrines of the Bible, Pertaining by Daniel Kauffman 1914
Critical Essays by Ezra Abbot.
Contents:
THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL, THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN AITEW AND EPWTAW, ANCIENT PAPYRUS AND THE MODE OF MAKING PAPER FROM IT, THE COMPARATIVE ANTIQUITY OF THE SINAITIC AND VATICAN MANUSCRIPTS or THE GREEK BIBLE, THE LATE PROFESSOR TISCHENDORF, THE LATE DR. TREGELLES, GERHARD VON MASTRICHT, BUTTMANN's GREEK TESTAMENT, WESTCOTT AND HORT's EDITION OF THE GREEK TESTAMENT, THE NEW TESTAMENT GREEK, THE GOSPELS IN THE NEW REVISION (three articles), THE READING "ONLY-BEGOTTEN GOD," IN JOHN i.18, THE READING "AN ONLY-BEGOTTEN GOD," OR "GOD ONLY-
BEGOTTEN," JOHN i. 18, THE TEXT OF JOHN viii. 44, THE READING " CHURCH OF GOD, ACTS XX. 28, THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMANS ix. 5, RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF ROMANS ix. 5
TITUS ii. 13
I JOHN v. 7, AND LUTHER'S GERMAN BIBLE,
THE VERSE-DIVISIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
The Evolution of the English Bible
by Henry William Hamilton-Hoare, H W. HOARE 1901
The New Testament by Abner Kneeland 1823 - poor quality scan, many words unreadable, 2 pages missing. (translated John 1:1 as "the Word was a God.")
Outlines of textual criticism applied to the New Testament
by Charles Edward Hammond - 1880
... the grammatical possibility of which may well be questioned. (8) Acts xx. 28. There are six readings here to decide between...
Catholic controversy. A reply to dr. Littledale's 'Plain reasons'
by Henry Ignatius D. Ryder, Richard Frederick Littledale - 1881
The Sixtine Bible.
The mistakes in Sixtus V.'s edition of the Bible only
prove, what it never entered into an Ultramontane's
heart to deny, that a Pope may issue an edition of the
Bible, and inaugurate it as the standard edition in the
most emphatic manner, without any security against mistakes.
The Tridentine Decree (sess. iv.), which infallibly
declared the Vulgate authentic, i.e., a sufficient
rendering of the original, neither guaranteed any existing
recension from minor errors, nor secured such immunity
for the future.
A Calm Inquiry Into the Scripture Doctrine Concerning the Person of Christ
by Thomas Belsham - 1817 - 337 pages
The Errors of the Bible Demonstrated by the Truths of Nature
by Henry Clarke Wright 1858
An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield 1899
Hermann Heinfetter's New Testament
"In commencing this dispensation, the command was existing, yet the command was with the God, as the command had relation to a God.
A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism
Christology by Levi Leonard Paine- 1900
Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Gospel: A View of the Scriptural Grounds of ...
by Lant Carpenter
A PLEA FOR THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE TEXT OF THE THREE HEAVENLY WITNESSES: OR PORSON'S LETTERS TO TRAVIS ECLECTICALLY EXAMINED THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL EVIDENCES FOR 1 JOHN V. 7 ECLECTICALLY RE-SURVEYED. BY THE REV. CHAELES FOESTEB
Antitrinitarian Biography by Robert Wallace 1850
The Four Gospels Translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations
by George Campbell - 1837
"Others maintain that QEOS here should be translated "a God was the word.'"
The Freewill Baptist Quarterly - 1866
We open to John 1: 1—5, and copy the word for word translation:—"In a beginning was the word, and the word was with the God, and a God was the word. ...
What is the Truth about Jesus Christ?: Problems of Christology
by Friedrich Loofs - 1913
Discourses on the Principal Points of the Socinian Controversy
by Ralph Wardlaw - 1828
One God in One Person Only: And Jesus Christ a Being Distinct from God
by John Sherman - 1805
Unitarianism Defined: The Scripture Doctrine of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost by Frederick Augustus Farley 1860
A Discourse on Denying the Lord Jesus.
by Bernard Whitman - 1827
Qualitative Nouns in the Pauline Epistles and Their Translation in the ...
by Arthur Wakefield Slaten - Bible - 1918
The Testament of Jesus
by Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy - 1901
John answered them, saying, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was a God, and the Word was the sacred Spirit of God. ...
The English Works of Raja Rammohun Roy
by Rammohun Roy- 1906
1, " the word was a God" ? We may, however, easily account for this inconsistency.
The term " God " in, Exodus is applied to Moses, the notion of whose ...
Discussion of the Existence of God, and the Authenticity of the Bible
by Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 350 pages
The apparent contradictions, misstatements, absurdities, &c., of the Bible, which sceptics urge as objections against it, are so many evidences of its original authenticity.
The crisis: a series of pamphlets in sixteen numbers
by Thomas Paine
Bible Contradictions -Bible Prophecies Concerning Babylon.
The Divine Authority of the Bible
by George Frederick Wright - 1884 - 230 pages
Elements of Christian Theology: Containing Proofs of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Scriptures by George Tomline -- 1818
The Pillar of Divine Truth Immoveably Fixed on the Foundation of the Apostles
by William Greenfield - 1831 - 265 pages
Theopneusty: Or, The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures
by Louis Gaussen - 1844 - 400 pages
The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted
by Samuel Noble - 1828 - 430 pages
A Refutation of Arianism: Or, A Defence of the Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures by John Paul - 1828 - 310 pages
The Bible: Its Meaning and Supremacy
by Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 350 pages
The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures
by Eleazar Lord - 1857 - 301 pages
The Evidences of Christianity: Stated in a Popular and Practical Manner
by Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1832
Systematic Theology
by Charles Hodge 1873
The Inspiration of the Scriptures
by Alexander Carson, John Dick, John Pye Smith, Daniel Wilson - 1853 - 410 pages
Analytical Investigations Concerning the Credibility of the Scriptures
by J. H. McCulloh - 1852
Holy Scripture verified; or, The divine authority of the Bible confirmed by ... - Page 196
by George Redford - Bible - 1837
The Bible of Bibles: Or, Twenty-seven "Divine Revelations"
by Kersey Graves, Lydia M. Graves -- 1879 - 430 pages
BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS-TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN.
Conversations on the Bible: Its Statements Harmonized and Mysteries Explained by Enoch Pond - 1886 - 620 pages
The Bible and Reason Against Atheism: In a Series of Letters to a Friend
by Martin Luther Edwards - 1881 - 230 pages
... The Virgin Mary—Bible Contradictions—How They Are Made Out, and How Little They Amount to-A Delicate Task
The 'holy Scriptures' analyzed; or, Extracts from the Bible, shewing its Contradictions and Absurdities edited by Robert Cooper - 1840
plus FREE - An Examination of the Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible by John W. Haley MA - 1875
A new history of the Holy Bible : from the beginning of the world to the establishment of Christianity : with answers to most of the controverted questions, dissertations upon the most remarkable passages, and a connection of profane history all along : to which are added, notes, explaining difficult texts, rectifying mistranslations, and reconciling seeming contradictions by Thomas Stackhouse 1680-1752 (incomplete and scattered over 3 volumes)
The Ancestry of our English Bible by Ira Maurice Price Ph.D 1907
The Bible Triumphant - 12 Dozen Skeptical Arguments Refuted - A Reply to an Infidel work entitled 144 Self-contradictions of the Bible by Mrs. H. V. Reed 1882
The Underwood-Marples Debate 1877
THE UNNOTICED THINGS OF SCRIPTURE. BY THE RIGHT REV. WM. INGRAHAM KIP, D.D 1879
The Problem of Evil: A Criticism of the Augustinian Point of View
by Marion Le Roy Burton 1909
Theodicy; essays on divine providence by Antonio Rosmini Volume 1 1912
Theodicy; essays on divine providence by Antonio Rosmini Volume 2 1912
The Justification of God: Lectures for war-time on a Christian theodicy by Peter Forsyth 1917
The Crook in the Lot, or, A display of the Sovereignty and Wisdom of God in the Afflictions of men, and the Christian's deportment under them by Thomas Boston 1848
The God that Jesus Saw by WG Horder 1921
Theodicy in The National Magazine 1855
The Problem of Evil (Article) in the Young Men's Christian Magazine 1877
The philosophical works of Leibnitz 1890
Three essays on religion by John Stuart Mill 1874
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
A Theodicy by Albert Bledsoe 1854
Immortality and the new theodicy by George Gordon 1897
The Science of Natural Theology by Asa Mahan 1867
The Problem of Evil by R. Hastings 1912
The Problem of Evil in Plotinus by B.A.G. Fuller 1912
History of the Problems of Philosophy Volume 1 by Paul Janet 1902
History of the Problems of Philosophy Volume 2 by Paul Janet 1902
Optimism and Pessimism or, The Problem of Evil 1871 by Jacob Frohschammer
The Problem of Evil: An Introduction to the Practical Sciences
by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson 1887
Moral Uses of Dark Things
by Horace Bushnell - 1880
Does God Send Trouble?: An Earnest Effort to Discern Between Christian Tradition and Truth
by Charles Cuthbert Hall 1894
An Essay on the Origin of Evil
by William King 1781
The Problem of Evil: Seven Lectures
by Ernest Naville 1871
Is the Devil a Myth?
by Charles Franklin Wimberly 1913
Daemonologia Sacra: Or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations
by Richard Gilpin 1677
Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil - G.W. LEIBNIZ (searchable PDF)
Evil & Evolution: An Attempt to Turn the Light of Modern Science on to the Ancient Mystery of Evil
by George Francis Millin 1896
Good and Evil: A Study in Biblical Theology
by Loring Woart Batten - Good and evil - 1918
The Origin of Evil, and Other Sermons Preached in St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens by Alfred Williams Momerie 1885
The Nature of Goodness (first 258 pages)
by George Herbert Palmer 1903
The Theory of Good and Evil: A Treatise on Moral Philosophy
by Hastings Rashdall 1907
Studies of Good and Evil: A Series of Essays Upon Problems of Philosophy and of Life by Josiah Royce 1898
The Conflict of Good and Evil in Our Day: Twelve Letters to a Missionary
by Frederick Denison Maurice 1865
A Modern Job: An Essay on the Problem of Evil
by Etienne Giran, Alfred Leslie Lilley 1916
Life's Dark Problems: Or, is this a Good World?
by Minot Judson Savage 1905
Man's Responsibility: Or, How and Why, the Almighty Introduced Evil Upon the Earth
by Thomas G. Carson 1905
The Problem of Evil: An Introduction to the Practical Sciences
by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson 1887
The Mystery: Or, Evil and God
by John Young 1856
The Anti-universalist: Or History of the Fallen Angels of the Scriptures, Proofs of the Being of Satan and of Evil Spirits
by Josiah Priest 1837
The Gospel for a World of Sin
by Henry Van Dyke 1899
The Nature of Evil: Considered in a Letter to the Rev. Edward Beecher by Henry James 1855
The Goodness of God in View of the Facts of Nature and the Supernatural by George Thomson Knight 1904
Whatever Is, is Right
by Asaph Bemis Child 1861
An Examination of the Notion of Moral Good and Evil
by John Clarke 1725
Beneficence of Design in the Problem of Evil 1849
The Great Exorcism
by Arthur Crane 1915
An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Doctrine Concerning the Devil and Satan by Walter Balfour 1827
The Book of Adam and Eve: Also Called the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan by Solomon Caesar Malan 1882
Satan as a Moral Philosopher: With Other Essays and Sketches
by Caleb Sprague Henry - 1877
Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books
by John Milton - 1750
The religion of Protestants a Safeway to Salvation by William Chillingworth - a very early book to discuss Sola Scriptura
Dangers of Jesuit Instruction - Brownson's Quarterly Review 1846
Martin Luther's Bible Translation 1847 (German) - the man who brought Sola Scripture to the world
Popery Calmly Considered by John Welsey
"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church."
The Truths of the Catholic Religion Proved from Scripture Alone by Thomas Bulter 1857, Volume 1
The Truths of the Catholic Religion Proved from Scripture Alone by Thomas Bulter 1857, Volume 2
Theopneusty: Or, The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures by Louis Gaussen - 1844
A Disputation on Holy Scripture Against the Papists by William Whittaker 1849
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine 1860
[IS THE BIBLE ALONE A SUFFICIENT RULE OF FAITH?]
The Inspiration of the Scriptures by Francis Patton 1869
Geneva Bible 1599 - The first English Bible to deal with this doctrine in the notes
The Divine Authority of the Bible by George Frederick Wright - 1884
Holy Scripture verified; or, The divine authority of the Bible by George Redford 1837
The Westminster Confession of Faith
"VII. All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them."
How We Got Our Bible by J. Patterson Smyth 1915
The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures by Eleazar Lord - 1857
How we got our American Standard Bible
The Judgment of the Anglican Church on the Sufficiency of Holy Scripture 1838
Lectures on the Criticism and Interpretation of the Bible 1842
The Rule of Faith and the Doctrine of Inspiration by Robert Watts 1885
The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted by Samuel Noble 1828
The Bible Triumphant - 12 Dozen Skeptical Arguments Refuted by Mrs H.V. Reed 1882
The Sufficiency of Holy Scripture, a Prize Essay 1852 by Richard Glover
The Inspiration of the Scriptures - A Review of the Theories by Alexander Carson, John Dick, John Pye Smith, Daniel Wilson 1853
What is a Catholic by Rev. Xavier Sutton 1913