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What “Authentical” Means
In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of appeal.
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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: The Doctrine Before the Controversy
Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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Mark 2:26 — “In the Days of Abiathar the High Priest”: Error or Authentic Historical Reference?
The phrase about Abiathar appears in both received and principal critical texts, though some witnesses omit or modify it. The historical question turns on Greek idiom and the Samuel narrative, not on an automatic assumption of error.
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Lane Keister, Matthew 5:18, and Exact Confessional Entailment
Lane Keister expressly affirms providential preservation and denies that Matthew 5:18 teaches it. Exact doctrinal judgment requires us to distinguish his profession, his exegesis, and the adequacy of his preservation model.
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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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The Claims on Trial: What Wes Huff Says About the Biblical Text
I have watched Christians breathe easier when an apologist says that the Bible has not been lost. I understand the relief. The believer has heard the usual litany: thousands of manuscripts, hundreds of thousands of variants, no surviving autograph, and a succession…
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Mark 3:29 — Eternal Damnation or Eternal Sin? The Warning against Blasphemy
The warning ends with either “eternal judgment” or “eternal sin.” Both readings exclude forgiveness, but they describe the offender’s condition from different angles.
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Mark 3:14 — “Whom He Also Named Apostles”: Addition or Omission?
The Textus Receptus moves from the appointment of the Twelve directly to their purpose. Many witnesses insert “whom he also named apostles,” the exact naming clause found in Luke 6:13.
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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