Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can…
Open record →Category: Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Presuppositional Method He Failed to Apply to the Biblical Text
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in…
Open record →No Brute Facts: Manuscripts Do Not Interpret Themselves
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without…
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
Open record →Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual…
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