Heresy Is Not a Pejorative: Why the Church Needs Exact Words
This opening article explains why the church must use the words heresy and heretic carefully, precisely, and only according to Scripture and the Reformed tradition.
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Principles, methods, evidence, and criticism concerning the biblical text.
The House upon the Sure Foundation
The Church did not give the Word of God its authority, and textual critics do not give it identity. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures, with Christ as the…
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No Brute Facts: Manuscripts Do Not Interpret Themselves
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
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Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset
A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result,…
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The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison
A fair reconstruction test requires identified received-text controls, not an undefined ‘TR’ or the KJV treated as inspired Greek and Hebrew. This article fixes the editions, historical checks,…
Open record →Why the ESV Is Not Simply the Critical Text in English
The ESV is a useful English witness to a critical-edition-based process, but translation, interpretation, inherited wording, textual exceptions, and footnotes prevent it from being treated as the critical…
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