Scripture Cannot Say Yea and Nay
The truthfulness and unity of Scripture are not an excuse to deny variant copies; they are a theological constraint on how the church identifies the canonical text.
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Constructive doctrinal treatments of Holy Scripture.
An Atheistic Argument and an Inconsistent Christian
A doctrine may deny the God of Scripture in its necessary consequence while its advocate sincerely professes Christian faith. The contradiction must be described without concealment or slander.
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The Comma Wager: What the Evidence Proves—and What It Does Not
The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what…
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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact,…
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Inspiration and Preservation: Distinct Acts, Inseparable Ends
Inspiration produced the God-breathed Scriptures; preservation conserves that inspired text through history. The acts differ in mode and instruments while serving one divine purpose: an abiding written rule…
Open record →Who Drew the Flight Path?
A grave doctrinal conclusion is only as sound as the route used to reach it. Exact entailment requires the proposition, definitions, premises, warrants, and possible exits to be…
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