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Mark 2:17 — “Sinners to Repentance”: The Full Purpose of Christ’s Call
The received conclusion names repentance as the purpose of Christ’s call. The critical form ends after “sinners,” a reading that remains true but leaves the object of the call implicit.
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This Is Not an Intramural Sports Day. This Is a Battle to the Death.
The identity and authority of Holy Scripture are not sidelines in the life of the church. Treating their destruction as a harmless intramural disagreement is not charity. It is a refusal to guard the foundation.
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The Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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Mark 2:22 — New Wine and New Bottles: Which Clauses Complete the Parable?
Mark’s wineskin saying has several competing grammatical forms. The received text states that new wine bursts old skins, the wine is spilled, the skins are marred, and new wine must go into new skins.
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What “Authentical” Means
In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of appeal.
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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: The Doctrine Before the Controversy
Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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Mark 2:26 — “In the Days of Abiathar the High Priest”: Error or Authentic Historical Reference?
The phrase about Abiathar appears in both received and principal critical texts, though some witnesses omit or modify it. The historical question turns on Greek idiom and the Samuel narrative, not on an automatic assumption of error.
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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Mark 3:29 — Eternal Damnation or Eternal Sin? The Warning against Blasphemy
The warning ends with either “eternal judgment” or “eternal sin.” Both readings exclude forgiveness, but they describe the offender’s condition from different angles.
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Mark 3:14 — “Whom He Also Named Apostles”: Addition or Omission?
The Textus Receptus moves from the appointment of the Twelve directly to their purpose. Many witnesses insert “whom he also named apostles,” the exact naming clause found in Luke 6:13.
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