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The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison
A fair reconstruction test requires identified received-text controls, not an undefined ‘TR’ or the KJV treated as inspired Greek and Hebrew. This article fixes the editions, historical checks, and comparison rules.
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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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Matthew 26:3, 28, 59–60 — Caiaphas, the New Testament, and the False Witnesses
Four details in Matthew 26 have been shortened in the critical text: the scribes at Caiaphas’s palace, the new testament in Christ’s blood, the elders among those seeking false witness, and part of…
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Matthew 27:16–49 — Jesus Barabbas, Vinegar and Gall, Divided Garments, the King of Israel, and the Spear Thrust
The passion narrative carries several famous variants. Some early manuscripts call the released prisoner Jesus Barabbas.
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Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset
A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result, and bounded verdict.
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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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Matthew 28:9–20 — Meeting, Worshiping, and the Closing “Amen”: Variants in the Resurrection Commission
Matthew closes with meeting, worship, command, and promise. Three received details are disputed: the women meet Jesus “as they went to tell his disciples”; the eleven worship him in Galilee; and the Gospel…
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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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Mark 1:1 — “Jesus Christ, the Son of God”: Does the Full Title Belong?
The opening line of Mark varies at its final title. The question is not whether Mark presents Jesus as God’s Son, but whether “the Son of God” stood in the Gospel’s first sentence.
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What James White Answered—and What He Did Not
James White said he had fully refuted Chris Thomas’s charge. This article identifies the claim he answered, the question left open, and the exact confessional test that must govern the dispute.
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