Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Presuppositionalism 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.
Open record →The final article explains how false doctrine should be handled in the church: by admonition, lawful judgment, discipline, and, where God grants it, restoration.
Open record →A reading must be judged by what its words necessarily assert, what they remove, and what must be imported from elsewhere. The Martin Rule prevents both doctrinal minimization…
Open record →Suppose a witness tells a court that he saw Peter, James, and John enter a room. He has established the presence of three men. He has not established…
Open record →Scribes sometimes harmonized parallel passages, but authors, memory, worship, and shared events also produce agreement, while scribal corruption can create difference. Disharmony is not self-authenticating.
Open record →Elijah Hixson’s work is useful for testing whether Scripture is being treated as uniquely preserved or as undergoing the same fate as any other ancient text.
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