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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 3: Probability Cannot Speak with Divine Authority
Historical investigation may serve the church, but it cannot become the court that decides what God has said. A probable reading cannot bear the same authority as a known word of God.
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The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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Infallibility in Name, Autographic Inerrancy in Structure
Bahnsen used infallibility in its strongest sense, yet confined it formally to the autographic text. The decisive issue is not vocabulary but the present locus of final authority.
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The Preconditions of Textual Intelligibility
Textual criticism is possible only because reality is ordered, language is meaningful, testimony is knowable, truth is binding, and a determinate text exists. Those conditions require the Christian worldview the critical method brackets.
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Wettstein Changed His Mind
The strongest historical objection came from a scholar who first acknowledged the fine stroke and later denied it. Wettstein’s reversal must be heard fairly—but it does not erase the earlier observations.
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The Autograph Nobody Has
The absence of the physical autographs does not prove that the church lacks the authentic text; it raises the question whether the final rule is an extant Word or a probability about a lost document.
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There Is No Single Object Called “the Septuagint”
“The Septuagint” is a useful name for a complex history, not the proper name of one uniform manuscript, translation event, or critical edition. Every claim must identify the actual Greek witness meant.
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The Word by Which Every Doctrine Is Judged
Because Scripture is the rule by which the church knows all doctrine, corruption in bibliology can become foundational rather than merely secondary.
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The Whole Argument and the Question Being Answered
A quotation must be read within the author's purpose, opponent, alternatives, qualifications, and wider argument.
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God, That Cannot Lie
Divine truthfulness is not a habit God might suspend. Scripture identifies the living God as the one who cannot lie, cannot deny himself, and performs every promise he makes.
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The Line That Vanished
The Line That Vanished Nomina Sacra and 1 Timothy 3:16 Research dossier and ten-part article series Prepared for Confessional Bibliology 23 July 2026 Editorial thesis The famous dispute at 1 Timothy 3:16 is not chiefly about Codex Vaticanus or Codex Sinaiticus. Vaticanus…
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When a Text Becomes Public: Printing, Preservation, and the End of Manuscript Necessity
Printing did not inspire an editor or create Scripture. It did make a received text publicly stable and widely accessible, so that the church's possession of the Word no longer depended upon the survival of particular manuscript artifacts.
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