 One of the most popular arguments among baby killers today is the argument from bodily autonomy. Those presenting this argument claim that restrictions on abortion are unethical because the government has no right to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her own body, but this claim is based on a flawed understanding of bodily autonomy. What the term “bodily autonomy” actually means is that the government cannot sanction an act that harms an unwilling participant for the benefit of another. When properly understood, the concept of bodily autonomy prohibits the government from sanctioning abortions because the act of abortion harms the prenatal child who is an unwilling participant in that act.
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 One of the tests that I use for determining the validity of a biblical text or translation is the test of inerrancy. This is one of the primary reasons that I prefer the Textus Receptus over the critical text. If the Word of God is inerrant, then the critical text cannot be the pure Word of God, for it contains many errors that are overlooked simply because the compilers of that text do not hold to the doctrine of inerrancy.
 The Shroud of Turin does not fit the biblical description of the burial clothes of Christ. According to the Bible, the body of Jesus was wrapped in a linen cloth, but His head was wrapped in a napkin (John 20:7). This was the standard burial practice of the Jews (John 19:40) as evidenced by the fact that Lazarus was also buried with a linen cloth around his body and a napkin around his head (John 11:44). The Shroud of Turin cannot be the burial cloth of Jesus because it contradicts the biblical description of His burial.
 There are many Christians today who are confused and uncertain about the topic of transsexuality. They are taught that God makes people transsexual, and that Christians must accept this out of love, but to claim that God made someone both male and female is an open accusation that God is the author of confusion. This is a direct contradiction of God's statement in I Corinthians 14:33 that He is not the author of confusion.
 My first debate with an atheist took place during a church youth activity when I was only 14 or 15. One of the girls in our church had invited a young man to come with her, and at some point in the evening, he told us that Christians were silly for believing in God in the first place.
 Scan of the note concerning Revelation 22:19 from Erasmus’s original 1516 publication Chapter 4: Erasmus and the Apocalypse
In chapter four, White begins his discussion of specific passages in the KJV. The first passage he presents comes from the conclusion of the Book of Revelation. His discussion of this passage is broken up over a span of twelve pages, so I’ll copy the relevant statements here before proceeding. Beginning on page 55, White writes,  This is the third installment in my series responding to James White's book The King James Only Controversy. In this article, I respond to several of White's claims regarding Codex Sinaiticus, one of the main Greek manuscripts used for the modern translations.
 As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series, I am writing a detailed response to James White's book The King James Only Controversy. I am defending the position that "the KJV is a faithful translation of the preserved text of God's inspired and inerrant Word." This article picks up my response to White in the second half of Chapter 2 of White's book.
 Over the past several years, I’ve seen a significant increase in the number of people that I know personally who have referenced James White’s book The King James Only Controversy in defense of their decision to abandon the use of the KJV in favor of various modern translations. White’s book is often presented by these individuals as a scholarly and irrefutable answer to the KJV Only position. I picked up a copy of White’s book several years back hoping to interact with a scholarly treatment of the topic, but I was sorely disappointed. I found White’s work to be childish and his arguments fallacious. I set the book aside with no plans to ever pick it up again, but with its current increase in popularity, I decided to read through it again and force myself to write a response.
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