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The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved in the authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures for the church’s present use.
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When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text
The disappearance of an autograph does not entail the loss of its words. Probate law distinguishes a missing instrument from proof of its precise terms; Scripture distinguishes perishable artifacts from the enduring text.
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When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
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Matthew 24:36, 42 — “Neither the Son” and “What Hour”: The Text of Christ’s Watchfulness Warning
Two time words are disputed in Christ’s watchfulness discourse. At verse 36, the critical text adds “neither the Son” after the angels; the Textus Receptus does not.
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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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Matthew 25:13, 31, 44 — The Son of Man’s Coming and the Final Judgment: Three Disputed Clauses
Three small clauses in Matthew 25 name Christ and his court. The Textus Receptus says the Son of man comes in verse 13, calls the angels holy in verse 31, and says the condemned answer him in verse 44.
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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 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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