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A Necessary Clarification: Lane Keister Affirms Preservation—but What Does He Mean?
Lane Keister affirms preservation; the remaining question is whether that affirmation gives the church an identifiable and publicly possessed text.
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No Doctrine Hangs on a Variant: The Retreat from Verbal Preservation to Doctrinal Survival
The survival of essential doctrine is a mercy, but it cannot identify the inspired wording of a disputed passage or replace verbal preservation.
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The Elder Is a Steward, Not a Judge of Revelation
An elder is Christ’s herald, steward, shepherd, and watchman; fitness for office therefore requires submission to revelation rather than judgment over it.
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Why This Site Exists: A Lay Theological Publication Under the Authority of Holy Scripture
A declaration of what Confessional Bibliology is, what it is not, and why every claim published here must stand beneath the authority of Holy Scripture.
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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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From Owen to Warfield: When Preservation Became Restoration
Traces the shift from John Owen’s doctrine of a presently possessed authentic text to B. B. Warfield’s account of autographic inerrancy and critical restoration.
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Why This Website Exists—and Why Lay Status Is Not a Command to Silence
Christ's appointment of church officers does not cancel the ordinary Christian's duty to confess, test, and answer public theological claims under Scripture.
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The Word That Bears Witness to Itself
The authority of Scripture is not the result of a successful argument. It is not produced by the church’s reception, conferred by an academic guild, excavated by archaeology, established by the number of surviving manuscripts, or created when an apologist defeats an…
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The Holy Ghost, the Church, and Recognition of the Text
God gives his Word; the Holy Ghost bears witness to that Word; and the church receives it. That order is neither accidental nor reversible.
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Richard Simon and the Roman Strategy of Textual Uncertainty
The preceding article examined John Owen’s refusal to let the learned apparatus become a court over Scripture. Nineteen years after Owen published that warning, Richard Simon supplied a remarkable demonstration of why it was necessary.
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B. B. Warfield and the Evangelical Adoption of the Academy Game
Westcott and Hort did not invent restorationist textual criticism, but their 1881 edition gave it a commanding historical theory and an imposing scholarly form. The question confronting conservative Protestants was therefore no longer whether the new criticism existed. It was whether its…
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It's been a while since I posted due to life, updating the site theme, adding more resources, finding more resources and so on. That is changing. At most, there may be one or two new posts per week. Here are some of…
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