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What ‘Kept Pure in All Ages’ Actually Confesses
The original grammar, proof texts, polemical setting, and final-appeal clause of WCF 1.8 identify a preserved Hebrew and Greek text—not merely surviving doctrine or scattered textual possibilities.
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Mark 3:32 — “Thy Brethren and Thy Sisters”: Does the Reference to the Sisters Belong?
Some witnesses tell Jesus that his mother, brothers, and sisters are outside. The received text mentions only his mother and brothers, agreeing with the family’s arrival and Jesus’ reply.
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Mark 6:33 — “Outwent Them” or “Came Together unto Him”? The Crowd’s Movement
The received narrative says the crowd both outran the boat and gathered to Jesus. The shorter critical form keeps the outstripping but omits the final gathering clause.
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Mark 4:40 — “How Is It That Ye Have No Faith?” The Full Rebuke after the Storm
After stilling the storm, Jesus asks either why the disciples have no faith or whether they still have no faith. The difference is one small adverb with a real effect on the rebuke’s timing.
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Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables
The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded incongruous.
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What Did God Promise to Preserve? Books, Words, and the Whole Counsel of God
Providential preservation concerns God’s inscripturated revelation in its canonical and verbal fullness—not merely surviving religious ideas, a sufficient doctrinal residue, or the continued existence of particular manuscripts.
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Mark 7:8 — “Laying Aside the Commandment of God”: Has the Rebuke Been Shortened?
Both forms accuse the Pharisees of abandoning God’s command for human tradition. The received text then repeats the vessel washings and says they do many similar things; the critical text omits that illustrative close.
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Mark 5:1 — Gadarenes, Gerasenes, or Gergesenes? Locating the Demoniac’s Country
Three regional names compete at the opening of the demoniac account. The received “Gadarenes” can identify a district associated with Gadara rather than claim that the city stood on the waterline.
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One Bible, Many Reconstructions: Where Does the Text Exist?
There is a sentence in Wesley Huff’s account of the New Testament that invites confidence and postpones definition. The original writings, he says, have been lost; nevertheless, the Bible itself was not lost. New discoveries have instead broadened our knowledge and allowed…
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Mark 5:36 — “As Soon as Jesus Heard” or “Ignoring What Was Spoken”?
The received verb says Jesus heard the report of the girl’s death. The critical verb may mean overheard it or disregarded it. The narrative consequence is the same command against fear.
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“Undue Silence in a Just Cause”: When “Intramural” Becomes an Excuse
Calling the textual controversy intramural does not make it nonfoundational, and church polity does not excuse elders from publicly answering public error about the identity and preservation of Scripture.
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Mark 7:16 — “If Any Man Have Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear”
The received text places Jesus’ familiar hearing summons between his public parable and its private explanation. The critical text omits the whole verse as an apparent echo of Mark 4.
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