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Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 1
A sustained exposition of the confession’s doctrine of Holy Scripture.
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When Surviving Witnesses Contradict One Another
Surviving manuscripts do not speak with one voice. A rule that makes mere survival authoritative collapses the moment two extant witnesses give incompatible readings.
What Scripture claimsGod-breathed, trustworthy, and complete.
What Scripture accomplishesIt reveals, corrects, trains, and equips.
How Scripture is appliedThe Spirit illumines, convicts, and transforms.
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Doctrine of Providential Preservation
How God has kept His Word pure through transmission and history.
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Doctrine of the Canon
The divine authority and ecclesiastical recognition of the canonical books.
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Key Textual Differences and Doctrinal Consequences
Textual changes that weaken, obscure, or remove doctrinal testimony.
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Cyprian’s Three: What the Third-Century Bishop Does—and Does Not—Witness to in 1 John 5:7
Cyprian’s appeal to ‘the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’ followed by ‘these three are one’ is neither a complete…
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Series Bibliography Confessional and historical sources Gaussen, Louis. The Canon of the Holy Scriptures from the Double Point of View of Science and of…
The Demiurge and the Good Creator
The lower-creator systems did not merely distinguish God from creation. They placed the visible world under a maker other than the supreme Father and…
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Mark 16:9–20Evidence, reception, and doctrinal significance.
John 7:53–8:11Evidence, reception, and doctrinal significance.
1 John 5:7–8Evidence, reception, and doctrinal significance.
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