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Mark 1:2 — “In the Prophets” or “in Isaiah the Prophet”? The Opening Citation
Mark introduces a composite citation with either “in the prophets” or “in Isaiah the prophet.” The difference forces a question about quotation formulas, not about whether Scripture contains an error.
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Translations Are Recipients, Not Sources
The Authorized Version receives inspiration and infallibility derivatively, while preservation belongs to the authentic Hebrew and Greek texts.
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How Confessional Bibliology Reviews a Book
A book review should explain what a work set out to do, judge what it actually accomplished, and tell the reader how to use it. This is why each part of our review method exists.
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No Brute Facts: Manuscripts Do Not Interpret Themselves
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
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What Does “Kept Pure in All Ages” Mean? A Precise Confessional Definition
“Kept pure in all ages” means that God preserved the full verbal Hebrew and Greek text he inspired, in the body of copies used by his church, so that no part of Scripture was lost and no future reconstruction is needed.
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The Label Is Not an Argument
Calling Confessional Bibliology “KJV-only,” “TR-only,” or “Ruckmanite” does not answer its doctrine of preservation. When a loaded label is made to carry the argument, it becomes an act of intellectual cowardice and, among Christians, a sin against truth.
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Preserved Through the Manuscripts: James White, Lane Keister, and Generic Preservation
James White and Lane Keister explicitly affirm preservation through manuscripts. The question is whether that affirmation yields an identifiable, publicly possessed, authentic text—or only surviving materials for reconstruction.
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What James White Calls ‘TR-Onlyism’
James White distinguishes several kinds of KJV and Received Text advocacy. The problem is not that no distinctions appear, but that one umbrella label can conceal decisive differences in authority, text, preservation, and method.
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The Church Must Receive, Confess, and Use the Text God Has Preserved
The doctrine of Scripture cannot end in a library.
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Confessional Bibliology Is Not KJV-Onlyism
Confessional Bibliology values the Authorized Version because of its fidelity to the received Hebrew and Greek texts, but it places every translation beneath those authentic originals.
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The Stream Cannot Correct the Fountain
A Greek translation may preserve ancient evidence and serve the Church as a valuable witness. It cannot become the judge of the inspired Hebrew text from which its authority is derived.
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The Critical-Text Case, Stated at Its Strongest
Before testing modern textual criticism for arbitrariness, its historical claims, evidential appeals, editorial methods, and principal modern forms must be stated as their strongest advocates state them.
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