Begotten, Not Made
Arius could call Christ begotten while treating that begetting as creaturely production. Nicaea’s ‘not made’ guarded the scriptural boundary between the natural Son and every work made through…
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
“No Major Doctrine Is Affected”: The Claim Before the Martin Rule
The most reassuring sentence in popular textual apologetics is also among the least examined. After acknowledging hundreds of differences between the Authorized Version and modern translations, Wesley Huff…
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What Is a Textual Canon? From Maxim to Verdict
A textual canon is a bridge from an observed feature to a judgment of priority. This article classifies the main canons and shows why the hidden premises in…
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Of the Holy Scripture III: Self-Attestation, Sufficiency, and Clarity
Westminster Confession 1.5–1.7 teaches that Scripture manifests itself as God's Word, contains the whole counsel necessary for faith and life, and is clear in all things necessary to…
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Obadiah Sedgwick’s Anatomy of Heresy
Sedgwick provides the clearest classical map for understanding error, fundamental doctrine, direct heresy, and heresy by consequence.
Open record →“There Was When He Was Not”
Arius placed the Son before the ages but still gave him a beginning. Scripture’s answer is not merely that Christ is very old, but that the eternal Word…
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