
Post · October 21, 2026Presuppositionalism rules out neutrality and an autonomous textual court, but it does not mechanically prove one printed edition or settle every variant without exegesis, confession, history, and evidence.
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Post · October 14, 2026Bahnsen 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.
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Post · October 7, 2026Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies inside textual criticism.
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Post · September 30, 2026Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be…
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Post · September 23, 2026Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently…
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Post · September 11, 2026Bringing Down the House WordPress Markdown Importer package for: Bringing Down the House: The Reconstructed Text and the Foundation of the Church Contents Six complete, self-contained Markdown articles…
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