Library of Articles
Accuracy and Precision Is Not Excess
Posted by Edward Cross on September 8, 2026
Make a careful distinction from the text and the answer comes back as a prefix — hyper, ultra, too far. Then a verse arrives to enforce it. But Paul never wrote strive not about words, and the sentence used to forbid precision commands it in the very next breath.
Attack the Man, Avoid the Message
Posted by Edward Cross on September 8, 2026
There is an old way to get rid of a doctrine you cannot answer: go after the man who said it. Scripture answers it plainly. God published His own messengers' failures, kept using them, and never once made a man's record the test of his message. Weigh what was said, not who carried it.
Archaic, Not Ornamental — What Is Lost Without the Thees and Thous
Posted by Edward Cross on August 23, 2026
The most common complaint against the King James is that its archaic words make it hard to understand. But the thees and thous are not decoration — they are working parts, telling the reader whether God is speaking to one man or to a multitude. Modern English idiom has no second word to mark that, and this is what is lost when they go.
Speculation and Sound Doctrine: Where the Line Must Be Drawn
Posted by Edward Cross on June 16, 2026
Soundness on the text is no guarantee of soundness everywhere. Some in the grace movement press the rightly divided word past what it states into speculation — such as the claim that the Body of Christ replaces fallen angels. This piece draws the line between what God has plainly said and what men build on top of it.
The Defenders of the King James: The Question Beneath the Manuscripts
Posted by Edward Cross on June 16, 2026
A companion to Preserved, Not Re-Inspired. Beneath the manuscript debate lies a question about God: would He hold His people accountable to His word and leave them unable to know which words are His? This piece weighs the defenders worth reading and those to be read with discernment, and draws the line between preservation and re-inspiration.
Preserved, Not Re-Inspired: Why We Hold the King James
Posted by Edward Cross on June 15, 2026
A defense of the King James as the providentially preserved word of God in English: that God promised to keep His words, that preservation runs through the received stream rather than the Alexandrian text behind the modern versions, and that the King James is final authority for the Body of Christ — preserved, not re-inspired.
The Unreliability of Red Letter Bibles
Posted by Edward Cross on June 15, 2026
The red letters in your Bible are not an inspired marking but an 1899 printing decision. The format teaches a false hierarchy of Scripture, buries the words the risen Christ speaks through Paul, and presses Israel's kingdom instructions onto the Body of Christ. Right division, not the color of the ink, is the reliable guide.
Can Anyone Make You Believe?
Posted by Edward Cross on June 9, 2026
Can belief be forced? This article examines how belief forms, what sustains it, and why it cannot be manufactured by pressure or technique. It moves through Paul's methods of reasoning, the evidence for man's guilt and God's grace, the role of illumination, and the believer's ongoing warfare of faith.
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