The Correction Safeguard: Correct Errors Conspicuously
Demonstrated factual errors must be repaired visibly, with material revisions dated and serious retractions preserved.
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The Jurisdiction Safeguard: Editorial Judgment Is Not Church Censure
A publication may judge doctrine and warn readers, but it must not present its verdict as a binding ecclesiastical sentence.
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The Ninth-Commandment Safeguard: Truth Forbids Selective Evidence
Christian polemics must reject selective quotation, exaggeration, guilt by association, suppressed contrary evidence, and unproved claims about motive.
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The Fifth-Commandment Safeguard: Honor Office Without Granting Immunity
Ecclesiastical office must receive proper honor, yet no office makes public doctrine immune from biblical examination and correction.
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The Proportionality Safeguard: Match the Answer to the Error
The force, publicity, duration, and repetition of criticism should correspond to the seriousness, reach, persistence, and danger of the error.
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The Category Safeguard: Use Exact Names for Error and Heresy
Error, serious error, unconfessional teaching, material heresy, formal obstinacy, damnable heresy, and disqualification are related but distinct judgments.
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