From Simon to Restorationism: When Scripture Is Treated Like Every Other Ancient Book
This article examines the shift from ministerial textual comparison to a magisterial restorationism that treats Scripture like ordinary literature.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
The Demiurge and the Good Creator
The lower-creator systems did not merely distinguish God from creation. They placed the visible world under a maker other than the supreme Father and divided Christ from the…
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The Back-Translation Charge: Evidence, Not Enumeration
A claim that Erasmus invented Greek from Latin must identify the Greek form, Latin source, edition, and later transmission. Counting “five” or “six” verses without that work is…
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God or He Who? 1 Timothy 3:16 Does Change the Proposition
In 1 Timothy 3:16, one small group of strokes carries a large claim. The received Greek text reads Theos ephanerōthē en sarki: “God was manifest in the flesh.”…
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The CBGM and the Claim of the ‘Best Manuscripts’
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method greatly strengthens the study of textual relationships, yet its local orientations remain editorial judgments and its output does not supply a theology of authority.
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Providence Plus Textual Science: The Restoration Principle
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…
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