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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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Scripture for the Church
God committed his Word to writing for his church. The act of inscripturation examined in the previous article was not an end in itself, as though God intended merely to produce a sacred artifact. He gave Scripture to preserve and spread the…
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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Book Review Series
Descriptive and evaluative reviews of important works.
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Thirty articles developing canon, preservation, and textual evidence.
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The Word by Which Every Doctrine Is Judged
Because Scripture is the rule by which the church knows all doctrine, corruption in bibliology can become foundational rather than merely secondary.
Francis Turretin on the Heavenly Witnesses, Part II: The Witnesses’ Nature and Testimony
A new English rendering of Theses VIII–XV of Turretin's 1674 disputation on 1 John 5:7.
The Whole Argument and the Question Being Answered
A quotation must be read within the author's purpose, opponent, alternatives, qualifications, and wider argument.
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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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