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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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Is the Harder Reading Better?
Lectio difficilior assumes that scribes smooth what troubles them. But errors also create difficulty, and the critic must define hard, identify its cause, and guard against smuggling a doctrine of error into the text.
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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The Myth of the Neutral Manuscript Fact
Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies…
The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities,…
Four Dates Every Manuscript Claim Must Separate
A manuscript’s manufacture, the age of its wording, its scholarly date assignment, and its documented provenance are four different chronological claims. Honest textual history…
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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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