Australia needs a conservative revolution, but that cannot be won merely by politics (or other such means), but ultimately, in the first instance, with a revival of religion.
There are many sensible ideas put forward by Cory Bernardi in his book, “The Conservative Revolution”.
A response to a question about why the PCE spells “inquire” not “enquire”.
First, the use of “inquire” or “enquire” is nothing to do with British or non-British spelling in the history KJB printing.
In the older Cambridge editions, and the Pure Cambridge Edition, the standardised spelling is “inquire”, and this is not an accident. The spelling “inquire” is the traditional Cambridge spelling.
When the Concord Edition was made by Cambridge, it took some Oxford Edition changes, including changing the spelling to “enquire” (this occurred in the mid 20th century).
Meanwhile Cambridge also obtained the Eyre and Spottiswoode publishers, and so they took the London Edition and created the “Standard Text Edition”.
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A response to a modern versionist:
You now think it is God’s will not to have a perfect version. Which means you are saying that God has deliberately chosen that error would always interfere with our Bibles, that is, that texts would never be 100% correct, and that translations would never be 100% accurate.
This means you are now saying it is God’s will that no Bible is exactly precisely perfect.
Your basis for your view is not any Scripture reference, not any doctrine derived from Scripture, but:
1) That you appeal to “historical support”, i.e. the empirical evidence of there being variations in copies, etc.
2) Next that of all the copies, there is sufficiency, that major doctrines are not absent, and
3) That you assert rationally, as based on your knowledge that humans are fallible and from the information of the previous two points that the KJB is not perfect in translation.
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