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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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Scholarship Under the Word: The Ministerial Alternative
The alternative to academic captivity is exacting historical, linguistic, and textual scholarship ordered beneath Scripture’s authority and practiced for Christ’s Church.
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Why “No Doctrine Is Affected” Is Not Enough
Few reassurances appear more frequently in discussions of textual criticism than the claim that no Christian doctrine is affected by textual variants. The statement is meant to calm believers who have just learned that manuscripts differ, that familiar passages are bracketed or…
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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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How Particular Readings May Be Tested
If textual criticism must be ministerial rather than magisterial, how should a particular reading actually be tested?
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Reasoning with Unbelievers and Heretics under Scripture’s Final Court
The Christian must answer unbelief and heresy without surrendering Scripture’s authority to a supposedly neutral court.
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Stop Playing the Game: A Confessional Manifesto
A concluding confession for textual scholarship under Scripture: no neutrality, no academic magisterium, no retreat into KJV-onlyism, and no fear of man.
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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 Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
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The Confessional Text, the Authorized Version, and What We Do Not Mean by KJV-Onlyism: Original-Language Authority, Faithful Translation, and Necessary Distinctions
Distinguishes original-language authenticity from derivative translation authority and defines the publication’s position on the Authorized Version and KJV-onlyism.
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How Christian Polemics Must Be Conducted: Truth, Evidence, Proportion, and Correction
Sets the biblical and editorial rules for truthful evidence, proportionate judgment, fair response, visible correction, and proper ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
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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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