
Post · August 4, 2026Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and…
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Post · August 4, 2026The remembered nineteenth-century testimony was real, but it concerned Codex Alexandrinus—not Vaticanus, and not principally Sinaiticus. Getting the manuscript right changes the whole inquiry.
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Post · August 4, 2026Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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Post · August 4, 2026The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Post · August 4, 2026In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of…
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