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Source and Claim Audit
Source and Claim Audit Controlling confessional claim The series uses the original wording and grammatical sequence of Westminster Confession of Faith 1.8: the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament were immediately inspired;those Scriptures were kept pure in all ages by singular…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on Scripture, seeking…
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Book Review: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture Bibliographical Notice Robert D. Preus, The Inspiration of Scripture (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1957; supplied edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture must be judged according to its actual…
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Book or Tree? Revelation 22:19 and the Myth of Doctrinal Neutrality
The last warning in Scripture is also the site of a textual dispute. The received text of Revelation 22:19 warns that if a man takes away from the words of the prophecy, God will take away his part “out of the book…
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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently exercise final authority.
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Reverence, Economy, and Superstition
Sacred contractions undeniably save space, but economy does not explain why Christians selected God, Lord, Jesus, and Christ. The evidence points first to reverence—and warns how reverence can become superstition.
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Turretin on 1 John 5:7 in the Institutes
Two related passages from Turretin's Institutes in a fresh English rendering: the integrity of the sources and the unity of the heavenly witnesses.
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When Surviving Witnesses Contradict One Another
Surviving manuscripts do not speak with one voice. A rule that makes mere survival authoritative collapses the moment two extant witnesses give incompatible readings.
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Cyprian’s Three: What the Third-Century Bishop Does—and Does Not—Witness to in 1 John 5:7
Cyprian’s appeal to ‘the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’ followed by ‘these three are one’ is neither a complete third-century transcription of the Comma nor a datum that may be waved away. It is early, specific, and…
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The Demiurge and the Good Creator
The lower-creator systems did not merely distinguish God from creation. They placed the visible world under a maker other than the supreme Father and divided Christ from the God of the prophets.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Louis Gaussen’s Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Gaussen…
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Book Review: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration Bibliographical Notice Louis Gaussen, Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration, new rev. ed. (Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1859). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Louis Gaussen’s Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine…
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