Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the…
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
Docetism: Flesh Only in Appearance
Docetism protects a heavenly Savior from real flesh, blood, suffering, and death. Scripture answers that the Word truly became man and redeemed us in the same nature that…
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Scrivener’s Reconstruction: Greek Authority and English Evidence
F. H. A. Scrivener reconstructed the Greek textual basis represented by the Authorized Version. His method began with the English historical question but required Greek authority for the…
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Book or Tree? Revelation 22:19 and the Myth of Doctrinal Neutrality
The last warning in Scripture is also the site of a textual dispute. The received text of Revelation 22:19 warns that if a man takes away from the…
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Is the Shorter Reading Better?
Lectio brevior is plausible because texts can grow through glosses, titles, parallels, and liturgy. Yet length becomes evidence only after a real mechanism of expansion has been shown.
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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual 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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