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At Least Three Is Not Exactly Three: The Missing Premise in the Critical-Text Trinity

Suppose a witness tells a court that he saw Peter, James, and John enter a room. He has established the presence of three men. He has not established that only three men entered. Andrew may have followed beyond his line of sight. To reach exactly…

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October 14, 2026 · 6 min read

Does Disharmony Prove Originality?

Scribes sometimes harmonized parallel passages, but authors, memory, worship, and shared events also produce agreement, while scribal corruption can create difference. Disharmony is not…

October 14, 2026 · 9 min read

A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text

Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every…

October 13, 2026 · 12 min read

“Attested By” Is Not “Composed In”

The earliest surviving witness tells us that wording existed by a certain point. It does not, by itself, tell us when that wording originated—or…

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