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Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual identity, and final authority.
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The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved in the authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures for the church’s present use.
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When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text
The disappearance of an autograph does not entail the loss of its words. Probate law distinguishes a missing instrument from proof of its precise terms; Scripture distinguishes perishable artifacts from the enduring text.
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When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
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The Inerrant Autograph: B. B. Warfield and the Making of Modern Inerrancy
Warfield did not invent the word inerrancy or the belief that Scripture is wholly true. He did give modern evangelicalism its most influential autographic form: inspiration and absolute errorlessness belong strictly to the original text, while criticism seeks that text through the…
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Correcting the Scrivener: Mistake, Reformation, and the Testator’s Actual Intention
A copyist’s mistake is corrected by returning to the author’s actual words, not by improving his general purpose. Modern will-reformation cases sharpen the line between ministerial correction and editorial creation.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without making critical reconstruction its higher court.
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Why Confessional Bibliology Confesses Infallibility, Not Inerrancy
Confessional Bibliology will use infallibility for its positive confession of Holy Scripture. This is not permission for error. It is a deliberate commitment to the present, preserved, authentic Hebrew and Greek rule—and a refusal to let an autographic formula govern confessional language.
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Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text
The previous thesis argued that the traditional text must be evaluated as a providential whole. That conclusion immediately raises a practical question.
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The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist
A question at the end of the Riddle-White debate exposed the prior problem modern textual criticism cannot evade: by what ultimate standard are manuscripts, canons, and critics themselves judged?
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