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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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Textual Effect, Historical Use, and Scribal Intent
A reading’s doctrinal effect, its use by a heretic, the motive of a copyist, and its path into an extant textual form are four different historical claims. Each requires its own evidence and permitted language.
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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Canon Collision Casebook IV: Luke 22:43–44 and the Seven Lessons
Luke’s account of the angel and bloody sweat is ancient, difficult, absent in important witnesses, present in others, and displaced in some. The case…
‘Kept Pure in All Ages’: The Confessional Control
Westminster 1.8 joins immediate inspiration, singular providence, continuing purity, present authenticity, and final appeal. Its original wording does not describe merely sufficient or recoverable…
Origen’s Hexapla and the Layered Greek Tradition
Origen’s lost six-column project proves that Greek Scripture was already plural and revised. It does not reduce every later Greek codex to Origen’s fifth…
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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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