The Historical-Meaning Rule: Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak
Past writers must be interpreted in the sense their words bore in their own time before continuity, development, correction, or contradiction is claimed.
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The Text in Question: Calamy”s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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The Book We Are Answering: Edition, Scope, and the Controlling Question
A fair answer to James White must identify the editions, grant his sound case against English re-inspiration, and isolate the question his book has not settled: whether the…
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This Is Not an Intramural Sports Day. This Is a Battle to the Death.
The identity and authority of Holy Scripture are not sidelines in the life of the church. Treating their destruction as a harmless intramural disagreement is not charity. It…
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Mark 2:17 — “Sinners to Repentance”: The Full Purpose of Christ’s Call
The received conclusion names repentance as the purpose of Christ’s call. The critical form ends after “sinners,” a reading that remains true but leaves the object of the…
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