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Which Texts Are Authentical? The Hebrew and Greek Texts Confessional Bibliology Affirms—and Why
Confessional Bibliology receives the Ben Chayyim–Bomberg Masoretic Hebrew text, including its received vowel points, and the Greek Textus Receptus as the providentially preserved, authentical text of Scripture.
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Has God Preserved His Word—or Merely Its Raw Materials?
The survival of thousands of variant-bearing manuscripts is providentially important, but the existence of evidence is not yet the confession that an authentic text was kept pure and remains available for final appeal.
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The House upon the Sure Foundation
The Church did not give the Word of God its authority, and textual critics do not give it identity. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures, with Christ as the chief cornerstone, are the antecedent and authentic foundation upon which the Church is built.
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Mark 2:17 — “Sinners to Repentance”: The Full Purpose of Christ’s Call
The received conclusion names repentance as the purpose of Christ’s call. The critical form ends after “sinners,” a reading that remains true but leaves the object of the call implicit.
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This Is Not an Intramural Sports Day. This Is a Battle to the Death.
The identity and authority of Holy Scripture are not sidelines in the life of the church. Treating their destruction as a harmless intramural disagreement is not charity. It is a refusal to guard the foundation.
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The Book We Are Answering: Edition, Scope, and the Controlling Question
A fair answer to James White must identify the editions, grant his sound case against English re-inspiration, and isolate the question his book has not settled: whether the church possesses an authentic Hebrew and Greek text.
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The Text in Question: Calamy''s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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The Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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Matthew 5:18 and the Written Form of Scripture
Matthew 5:18 principally declares the law’s abiding authority and fulfillment, but Christ makes that declaration through the smallest written features. Doctrine and written form must be held together.
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Heresy Is Not a Pejorative: Why the Church Needs Exact Words
This opening article explains why the church must use the words heresy and heretic carefully, precisely, and only according to Scripture and the Reformed tradition.
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Mark 2:22 — New Wine and New Bottles: Which Clauses Complete the Parable?
Mark’s wineskin saying has several competing grammatical forms. The received text states that new wine bursts old skins, the wine is spilled, the skins are marred, and new wine must go into new skins.
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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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