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Two Endings, One Received Gospel: Eusebius, Jerome, and Burgon’s Ledger of Mark 16
Eusebius and Jerome cannot be suppressed in a defense of Mark 16:9–20; they report copies which lacked the ending. But neither Father simply declares the passage spurious, and Jerome’s parallel cannot be counted as an independent manuscript census. This article weighs their…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Bahnsen’s philosophical dissertation analyzes self-deception, not…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Metaphysics of Christian Apologetics
The Prior Question The analysis asks how transcendental method can govern bibliology without being made a shortcut around historical and textual argument. A presuppositional analysis asks neither whether an author is sincere nor whether he has made a useful observation. It asks…
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Book Review: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception Bibliographical Notice Greg L. Bahnsen, The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception (doctoral dissertation, supplied edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception must be judged according to its actual undertaking.…
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Who Put John 5:4 into the Bible? What the Evidence Actually Proves
The question came to Wesley Huff from a Mormon missionary: Who took John 5:4 out of your Bible? Huff describes turning to the passage and finding verse 3 followed by verse 5. His answer reverses the accusation. The better question, he says,…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 2: The Lost Autograph Cannot Rule the Church
A Bible located only in vanished autographs cannot function as the church's present rule. The question is not whether God inspired the first inscription, but whether He preserved His words in a form His people can identify and obey.
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R. L. Dabney’s 1871 Indictment of the Critical Canons
Dabney argued that nineteenth-century critics did not merely disagree over facts; they worked with rival codes whose rules could reverse one another and lacked a common umpire.
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Of the Holy Scripture IV: Original Languages, Preservation, Interpretation, and Final Appeal
The final paragraphs of Westminster Confession 1 ask whether the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures have been kept pure, whether they remain the church's authentic court of appeal, how translations serve the people of God, and how Scripture interprets Scripture. This article…
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The Real Choice: Confessional Reception or Scholarly Reconstruction
The dispute is not finally about Erasmus, manuscript counts, or loyalty to one English Bible. It is whether the church receives a text kept by God or awaits a text continually constituted by reconstruction.
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Inspiration, Canonicity, Authority, and Preservation
Inspiration, canonicity, authority, and preservation belong together, but they do not answer the same question. Keeping their order prevents confusion about the books God gave and the words he keeps before his Church.
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What Fruit Does the Critical Method Bear?
Bahnsen's third test asks where an argument leads. Applied to modern textual criticism, it reveals a provisional Bible, probabilistic knowledge, transferred authority, and duties that the method cannot finally ground.
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Preservation, Canonization, and Recognition: Three Questions That Must Not Be Confused
Which books are Scripture, what words constitute those books, and how the church recognizes both are related but distinct questions. God creates the canon and text; the church receives them through ministerial means.
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