“If God Wanted Certainty, He Would Have Preserved the Autographs”
Answers the counterfactual claim that textual certainty would have required God to preserve the physical autographs rather than their text in faithful apographs.
Open record →Category: Preserved—but Where? Lane Keister, the Received Text, and the Modern Critical Method
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Preservation Is Not Built on One Proof Text: The Canonical Witness
Preservation rests upon Scripture’s cumulative canonical witness to a determinate written deposit that endures, remains present speech, and governs the church.
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Matthew 5:18 Reconsidered: The Law’s Continuity and the Text’s Continuity
Matthew 5:18 primarily promises the law’s enduring authority, yet that authority necessarily entails the continuity of its identifiable written words.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: What Westminster Confession 1.8 Actually Confesses
Westminster 1.8 confesses inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures kept pure in every age, therefore presently authentic and available for final appeal.
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No Doctrine Hangs on a Variant: The Retreat from Verbal Preservation to Doctrinal Survival
The survival of essential doctrine is a mercy, but it cannot identify the inspired wording of a disputed passage or replace verbal preservation.
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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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