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The Text the Church Possesses: Preservation, Recognition, and the Confessional Text
The church publicly possesses the preserved Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received textual traditions while judging particular witnesses ministerially and honestly.
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Public Teaching May Receive a Public Answer
Public theological teaching may ordinarily receive a proportionate public answer without misusing Matthew 18, while charity, accuracy, and restoration still govern the response.
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Doctrinal Survival Is Not Doctrinal Derivation
A doctrine’s survival somewhere in Scripture is not the same question as whether a specific confessional proposition can still be derived from its historical proof structure.
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The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Textual Knowledge
The fear of the Lord is the abiding beginning of textual knowledge, ordering the critic’s object, evidence, motives, confidence, and accountability.
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Evidence as Servant, Not Sovereign: The Proper Work of Textual Inquiry
Defines the ministerial use of manuscripts, versions, linguistic study, and historical evidence beneath the doctrine and authority of Scripture.
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The Strongest Critical-Text Case: Rules against Straw Men
A critique is only as strong as the case it survives. This article states the strongest responsible critical-text position, distinguishes steelmanning from neutrality or concession, and fixes the rules every later reconstruction dossier must follow.
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The Word That Bears Witness to Itself
The authority of Scripture is not the result of a successful argument. It is not produced by the church’s reception, conferred by an academic guild, excavated by archaeology, established by the number of surviving manuscripts, or created when an apologist defeats an…
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The Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
There is no religiously neutral textual criticism.
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The Confessional Text, the Authorized Version, and What We Do Not Mean by KJV-Onlyism: Original-Language Authority, Faithful Translation, and Necessary Distinctions
Distinguishes original-language authenticity from derivative translation authority and defines the publication’s position on the Authorized Version and KJV-onlyism.
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Scripture Interprets Scripture: The Canonical-Coherence Test
Scripture is its own infallible interpreter, but canonical synthesis cannot be used to silence local wording or conceal textual instability. This article establishes the test that distinguishes legitimate clarification, completion, qualification, and harmonization from theological repair.
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The Holy Ghost, the Church, and Recognition of the Text
God gives his Word; the Holy Ghost bears witness to that Word; and the church receives it. That order is neither accidental nor reversible.
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The Reformed Orthodox on Present Textual Purity
Surveys Reformed orthodox teaching on the present authenticity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures while acknowledging ordinary transmissional variation.
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