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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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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 Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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From Divine Revelation to Divine Judgment
Westminster Chapter 1 begins with God making himself known and ends with God rendering judgment. Its opening movement is, “It pleased the Lord … to reveal himself”; its closing declaration is that the church must rest in “the Holy Spirit speaking in…
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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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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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The Canon Question: Can We Know Which Books Are God’s Word?
Before Scripture can serve as the Church’s rule, the canonical books must be identifiable. The canon question therefore lies beneath every appeal to the written Word of God.
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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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