Which Bible Is Self-Attesting?
Scripture’s self-attestation cannot remain an abstract property of inaccessible originals. The church hears God in extant words, so a complete apologetic must identify the preserved textual object that…
Open record →Category: Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Presuppositional Method He Failed to Apply to the Biblical Text
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What Presuppositionalism Does—and Does Not—Entail About the Text
Presuppositionalism rules out neutrality and an autonomous textual court, but it does not mechanically prove one printed edition or settle every variant without exegesis, confession, history, and evidence.
Open record →A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text
Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every disputed place.
Open record →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 inside textual criticism.
Open record →When Textual Science Becomes Magisterial
Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be…
Open record →A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently…
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