Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text
The previous thesis argued that the traditional text must be evaluated as a providential whole. That conclusion immediately raises a practical question.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
Open record →When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
The controversy over textual criticism is not fundamentally a contest between learning and ignorance.
Open record →Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
The word criticism often sounds hostile. It may suggest sitting in judgment over Scripture, identifying its alleged defects, or deciding which portions deserve to be believed. That is…
Open record →A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions
Many arguments over the text of Scripture are confused before the evidence is ever examined. The parties use the same words while referring to different things. One person…
Open record →The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition
The doctrine of providential preservation does not require us to believe that one sixteenth- or seventeenth-century printer produced an independently immaculate edition of the Greek New Testament. It…
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