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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the preferred reading changes.
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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and textual authority cannot be treated as interchangeable.
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Mark 7:8 — “Laying Aside the Commandment of God”: Has the Rebuke Been Shortened?
Both forms accuse the Pharisees of abandoning God’s command for human tradition. The received text then repeats the vessel washings and says they do many similar things; the critical text omits that illustrative close.
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Mark 5:1 — Gadarenes, Gerasenes, or Gergesenes? Locating the Demoniac’s Country
Three regional names compete at the opening of the demoniac account. The received “Gadarenes” can identify a district associated with Gadara rather than claim that the city stood on the waterline.
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Mark 5:36 — “As Soon as Jesus Heard” or “Ignoring What Was Spoken”?
The received verb says Jesus heard the report of the girl’s death. The critical verb may mean overheard it or disregarded it. The narrative consequence is the same command against fear.
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Mark 7:16 — “If Any Man Have Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear”
The received text places Jesus’ familiar hearing summons between his public parable and its private explanation. The critical text omits the whole verse as an apparent echo of Mark 4.
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The Received Text: A Field Guide
Taylor DeSoto, The Received Text: A Field Guide (Kept Pure Press, 2024).
DeSoto offers a short, accessible guide to the Received Text debate. The book distinguishes text-base and translation questions, describes competing positions, introduces arguments for the TR, critiques labels, and defends continued use of the KJV without equating a translation with the original-language…
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Why I Preach from the Received Text
Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds., Why I Preach from the Received Text (The Greater Heritage, 2022).
This multi-author volume gathers pastors and scholars who argue for preaching from the Received or traditional ecclesiastical text. The essays range from doctrinal and apologetic arguments to pastoral testimony, historical reflection, and practical advice for churches. Its central theme is that the…
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The King James Only Controversy
Alternate title: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995.
White’s polemical introduction to the King James-only controversy distinguishes translation questions from questions about the Hebrew and Greek text, rejects English re-inspiration, and argues for contemporary translations and case-by-case eclectic textual criticism. Its accessible taxonomy and local illustrations have made it influential…
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Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?
Alternate title: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Providential Preservation of Scripture
Independently published, 2017.
Milne argues from primary Reformation and post-Reformation sources that Westminster Confession 1.8 teaches providential preservation of the complete wording of Scripture in accessible Hebrew and Greek copies, not merely preservation of doctrine or a recoverable text hidden across the manuscript tradition. Extended…
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In Defense of the Authenticity of 1 John 5:7
Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2016; copyright 2015; revised August 3, 2016.
Pappas offers a sustained popular-level defense of the Comma Johanneum, combining the grammar of 1 John 5, Latin and Greek transmission, patristic and conciliar references, the history of Erasmus's editions, and theological arguments from providential preservation. The volume gathers many older pro-Comma…
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