Constructive doctrinal treatments of Holy Scripture.
“No major doctrine is affected” is one of the most successful sentences in modern textual apologetics. It concedes the existence of differences while immediately limiting their importance. It…
Open record →An unwanted conclusion can be escaped by retracting a premise, disproving a necessary connection, exposing equivocation, or showing invalid inference. Denial does not reroute an argument.
Open record →Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the…
Open record →Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
Open record →Bahnsen’s assurance rests on providence together with textual criticism, while his rule that an imperfect text should yield to a superior one makes present textual identity reconstructionist in…
Open record →Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
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