Wes Huff
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Prior to the Council of Trent in 1545 there was no such thing as an agreed upon “Roman Catholic Bible.” Cardinal Ximenez (who died in 1517 - the very year Martin Luther nailed his 95 Thesis to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg) in the preface to his Complutensian Polyglot Bible described the 7 books of the Deutercanon as “books outside the canon.” He explains that their purpose is to be “received by the Church rather for the edification of the people than for the authoritative confirmation of ecclesiasitcal doctrines.” In essence, Ximenes’s position was: valuable and edifying for Christians, but outside the primary canon and insufficient by themselves to establish doctrine.
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For physical training has limited benefit, but godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. - 1 Timothy 4:8. Go workout — it’s good for your body and mind. But also make sure you’re “working out” in godliness. I see a lot online about “optimization,” if you went to the gym but didn’t read your Bible and pray today you’re grossly imbalanced and unoptimized.
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The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God endures forever.
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Some of our most important ancient historical sources were written centuries after the events they describe. Arrian’s account of Alexander the Great, for example, was written more than 400 years after Alexander’s campaigns. By comparison, Mark is commonly dated to around 40 years after the public ministry of Jesus. That (in of itself) does not automatically make Mark accurate, but it places the Gospel within living memory, when sources could still be consulted and claims could still be challenged. Watch the full video:
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This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you? This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at Childlike Media.
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Researchers Jason Wilson & Luuk Van de Weghe compared the name patterns in the Gospels and Acts with a range of other ancient and later writings. Among the sources they tested, once the sample size reached the level found in Luke-Acts, every source that accurately reflected the population’s real naming patterns was also a work of history. Fictional and legendary works did not reproduce the same pattern, even when their authors had access to genuine historical material. That does not make name statistics a standalone proof, but it makes them an unusually revealing test of whether a text is preserving information about real people and events. Jason Wilson & Luuk Van de Weghe, "Re-examining the Statistical Methodology and Onomastic Claims of Gregor and Blais's Argument," Journal for the Study of the New Testament (2026). Watch the full video and see the research behind these comparisons:
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“The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Mk 10:45/Mtt 20:28 Jesus is no less than a moral example, but if that’s all he is we don’t need a saviour and his own profession of why he came to do what he did is wrong. If Jesus is a pattern to live by then you can save yourself and don’t need a saviour.
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One way to test the Gospels is to compare the names they use with names preserved in sources outside the New Testament. The result is not just that familiar names like Simon, Joseph, and Judas appear. The relative frequencies follow a similar overall pattern. A small group of popular names accounts for a large share of the people mentioned, while many other names are much less common. Lydia McGrew calls this the “swoopy name distribution.” The interesting part is that roughly the same pattern, involving roughly the same names, appears in the Gospels and Acts and in external evidence for Jewish names from antiquity. Watch the full video to see the broader research, including how these name-frequency patterns match historically grounded sources, while fictional, embellished, and other non-historical works tested in the study fail to reproduce the same patterns:
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If you’re arguing that “the Septuagint” or “the Dead Sea Scrolls,” both included certain books, and on that basis we must have those books in our Bibles today, then you have a big problem. Both “the Septuagint” and “the Dead Sea Scrolls” are mini-libraries — they include documents considered both scriptural and non-scriptural in their day. For example, the Letter of Aristeas, 3rd and 4th Maccabees, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Testament of Job, the Life of Adam and Eve, the Psalms of Solomon, and the Assumption of Moses are all part of the Septuagint collections. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, The Community Rule, recordings of the last words of Joseph, Judah, Levi, Naphtali, and Amram (the father of Moses) were amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls. Few (if any) of these books are considered scripture today by modern Christian or Jewish groups. Both the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls are representative of ancient library collections — collections that contained scripture but that were not themselves wholly considered scripture. We today group them in these convenient categories with these helpful titles, but it is a misunderstanding to think of them as, or necessarily representative of, a single thing.
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“The church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Sir Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity… Newton did not create gravity but recognized it” - J.I Packer (As cited in Kenneth J. Collins and Jerry L. Walls, Roman but not Catholic: what remains at stake 500 years after the Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017), 21). By the time the church was having discussions of canon lists and what books did or didn’t possess the mark of inspiration. The books of inspired scripture had already been written, read, copied, passed around, and disseminated for some time. Paul is already being recognized as scripture within the 1st century by Peter in 2 Pet. 3:16, and Paul himself is quoting Luke as scriptural alongside Deuteronomy in 1 Timothy 5. And let’s not forget that the Christians in the first century had a Bible: we call it the Old Testament. When Paul says “all scripture is God breathed” in 2 Timothy, no one is confused about what Paul means when he uses the term “scripture.” Just because books existed as independent documents in the form of physical scrolls and books separate from one another prior to the fourth century with them being codified all in one single unit then, doesn’t mean that they weren’t the Bible prior to that point. We need to be careful not to read back an anachronistic perspective due to our modern privilege of being able to easily have all the biblical books in a single-bound-volume. This is largely due to the amazing and streamlined process of publishing today.
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