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No Neutral Ground Beneath the Apparatus: Faith, Science, and the Final Court
Manuscripts supply readings, not their own rank or theological meaning. Gaussen’s distinction between faith and historical science shows why evidence must serve Scripture’s doctrine rather than constitute the Church’s Bible.
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From Canon to Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 10.
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A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions
The inspired text, the manuscripts that witness it, and the editions that present it must be distinguished without separating the text from its providentially preserved witnesses.
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in principle?
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Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual identity, and final authority.
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
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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 Is Confessional Bibliology? A Definition of Its Doctrine, Method, Text, and Commitments
Confessional Bibliology begins with God’s own testimony and confesses the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as preserved, authentic, and publicly received.
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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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Why Confessional Bibliology Must Be Stated Before It Is Defended
A positive doctrine of Scripture must be stated before individual variants are disputed, because method follows first principles.
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The Final Court of Appeal
Holy Scripture is the supreme external principle of theological knowledge and the final court judging every tradition, council, experience, and critical conclusion.
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The God Who Knows and Speaks
The self-existent, truthful, omniscient, sovereign, covenant-faithful triune God is the necessary foundation of every doctrine and study of Scripture.
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