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…
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Constructive doctrinal treatments of Holy Scripture.
Profession Is Not Derivation: What an Orthodox Confession Cannot Prove About a Method
A man signs a confession stating that God exists in three persons. He preaches the deity of Christ, recommends serious books on the Trinity, and defends Christianity in…
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 →No Major Doctrine? The Verdict After the Cases Have Been Heard
“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…
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The Only Honest Ways Off the Plane
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 →Preservation as the Test Case
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…
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