BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY


Letters from

Professor Allan A. MacRae, PhD

1994

This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents.

September, 2008

Copyright © 2008 by Allan A. MacRae.  All rights reserved.


CONTENTS.

Titlepage iii

Preface   xi  xii

Biography of  Allan A. MacRae  001  002  003   004  005  006  007  008

LANGUAGES  009  010  011  012

1 The Origin of Language 9
2 Egyptian Hieroglyphics 11

BIBLE TEXTS 013  014  015  016  017  018  019  020  021  022  023  024  025   026

3 The Hebrew and Greek Texts of Scripture 13
4 Determining the Correct Text of Scripture 16
5 Facts about the So-called Textus  Receptus 21


BIBLE VERSIONS 027  028  029  030  031  032  033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041  042  043  044  045  046  047  048  049  050   051  052  053  054  055  056  057  058  059  060  061  062  063  064  065  066  067  068  069

6 Translating the Word of God 27
7 Modem English Versions 32
8 Translation Problems 34
9 The Text of the King James Version 36
10 Is the King James Version the Actual Word of God? 38
11 The King James Version and Translation Problems 40
12 Is the King James Version Reliable? 45
13 Understanding the Bible 47
14 The Translators of the Revised Standard Version 50
15 "Thou" and "You" in the Revised Standard Version 51
16 The King James Version and the Revised Standard  Version 52
17 Further Comments on the King James Version and the Revised Standard Version 55
18 The Scofield Bible, the King James Version, and the Revised Standard Version 57
19 The Scofield Bible 60
20 The New Scofield Reference Bible 61
21 The Berkeley Version and the Amplified New Testament 64
22 The Textus Receptus and English Bible Versions 65
23 G. M. Lamsa's Translation 68


BIBLICAL INERRANCY 070  071

24 A Brief Word on Biblical Inerrancy 70
25 Biblical and the Whole Bible 71


BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION  072  073  074  075  076  077  078  079  080  081  082  083  084  085  086  087  088  089  090  091  092  093  094  095  096  097  098  099   099  100  101  102  103  104  105  106  107  108  109  110  111  112  113  114  115  116  117  118  119  120  121  122  123  124  125  126  127  128  129  130  131  132  133  134  135  136  137  138  139  140  141  142  143  144  145  146  147  148  149

26 The Bible - A Proper Subject of Scholarly Study 72
27 The Pronunciation of Biblical Names 73
28 The Existence of God 76
29 The Meaning of Echad 78
30 The Keil and Delitzsch Commentary 79
31 The Creation - Six 24-Hour Days or Six "Age-Days"? 80
32 Lamech in Genesis 4:23 84
33 The Exodus and the Ten Plagues 85
34 Did God Make or Merely Reveal His Work of Creation in Six Days9 88
35 Sabbath Observance, and the Law and the Gospel 89
36 The Blood Covenant 91
37 The Curse of Canaan 94
38 Judicial Blindness 95
39 Spiritism in 1 Samuel 28:12-19? 97
40 The Meaning of Shamayim in 2 Kings 2:11 98
41 The Island of the Innocent in Job 22:30 100
42 The Order of the Psalms and the Prophetic Books 102
43 "Shadow of Death" or "Darkness" in Psalm 23:4 104
44 Jesus in Isaiah 7:14 105
45 Almah (Virgin) in Isaiah 7:14 106
46 The Time of Fulfillment of Isaiah 23:15-18 108
47 God's Command or God's Permission in Hosea 1:2 112
48 Prediction or Analogy in Hosea 11:1 113
49 The Prophecy of Hosea 114
50 The Pagan Mother Goddess 115
51 Is Mary the Mother of God' 121
52 Wine in the Bible 123
53 The Holy Spirit, Law and Grace, and the Second Coming 124
54 The Date of the Gospel of John 127
55 Water and Spirit in John 3:5 130
56 Wind orSpirit inJohn 3:8? 132
57 Gods Will in John 6:65 133
58 Apostasia (apostasy) in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 136
59 The Church of God and 1 John 5:7 138
60 The Old Testament Apocrypha 139
61 The Relation of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Christianity 141

HIGHER CRITICISM 150  151  152  153  154  155   156  157  158  159  160  161  162  163  164  165

62 A Critique of Higher Criticism 146
63 Facts about the J.E.D.P. Theory 149
64 Higher Criticism - The J.E.D.P. Theory 154

BIBLICAL NUMERICS  166  167  168  169  170  171  172  173  174

65 Transmission of Numbers 160
66 Ancient Chronology 162
67 Ivan Panin's Numerics 163
68 Karl G. Sabiers's Numerics 165

BIBLICAL SEPARATION  175  176  177  178  179

69 Evangelicals and Fundamentalists 170
70 Heart Disease in Christ's Body 172

BAPTISM 180  181  182  183  184   185

71 Baptism - A Brief Statement of Belief 175
72 Baptism - The Presbyterian Heritage 176
73 The Mode of Baptism 178

DISPENSATIONALISM 186  187

74 When did the Church Begin? The Dispensational Interpretation of Scripture 180
75 Divine Sovereignty 181

ESCHATOLOGY 188  189  190  191  192  193  194  195  196  197  198   199  200  201  202  203  204  205  206  207  208  209  210   211  212  213  214  215  216  217  218  219  220  221  222  223  224 

76 Daniel's Seventy Weeks 182
77 More Comments on Daniel's Seventy Weeks 184
78 Pre-Tribulation Rapture 186
79 Premillennialism and Tyconius's Seventh Rule 188
80 Isaiah 66:12-24 and the Millennium 191
81 Premillennialism and Ordination to the Christian Ministry 193
82 The Prediction About Tyre 195
83 The Prediction about Memphis 198
84 A Glorious Future 201

EDUCATION  225  226  227  228  229  230  231  232  233  234  235  236  237  238  239  240  241  242  243   244  245  246  247  248  249

85 American Schools 218
86 The Study of Literature 220
87 Christianity and Culture 226
88 The Christian Study of History 228
89 The Cultural Mandate 229
90 Writing for Publication 230
91 Personal Problems 231
92 Sound Training 235
93 Examining Candidates for Ordination 236

COMMUNISM  250  251  252  253  254  255  256  257  258  259  260  261  262  263  264

94 Marxism 242
95 The Khazars and Jews Today 244
96 The Khazar Jews and Communism 247
97 The Khazar Jews and the Talmud 251

OTHER SUBJECTS 265  266  267  268  269  270  271  272  273  274

98 Locating Noah's Ark 257
99 Pentecostalism 259
100 Mormonism 260
101 British Israelism 263
102 The United Nations 265
103 The Moral Rearmament Movement 267
104 War and Social Studies 269
105 Hendrik Willem van Loon on Religious Art 271