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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 2
The Rise of Enlightenment Rationalism: How Simon’s Methods Foreshadow Modern Skepticism ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction Richard Simon 1638–1712 is often described as “the father of modern textual criticism.” More than a…
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Matthew 5:27 — “Said by Them of Old Time”: The Fuller Introduction to the Seventh Commandment
The phrase by them of old time is missing from the modern critical text and from the reconstructed Byzantine majority text. The Textus Receptus stands here as a minority Greek reading, though it has early…
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From Canon to Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 10.
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What Is Confessional Bibliology? A Definition of Its Doctrine, Method, Text, and Commitments
Confessional Bibliology begins with God’s own testimony and confesses the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as preserved, authentic, and publicly received.
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The Text the Church Possesses: Preservation, Recognition, and the Confessional Text
The church publicly possesses the preserved Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received textual traditions while judging particular witnesses ministerially and honestly.
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Why Confessional Bibliology Must Be Stated Before It Is Defended
A positive doctrine of Scripture must be stated before individual variants are disputed, because method follows first principles.
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The Final Court of Appeal
Holy Scripture is the supreme external principle of theological knowledge and the final court judging every tradition, council, experience, and critical conclusion.
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The God Who Knows and Speaks
The self-existent, truthful, omniscient, sovereign, covenant-faithful triune God is the necessary foundation of every doctrine and study of Scripture.
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God Speaks for Himself
Because Scripture is divine speech, its authority is intrinsic and self-attesting; church, evidence, and reason recognize that authority but do not create it.
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The Spirit and the Word
The Holy Spirit who inspired Scripture bears witness by and with that same objective Word, producing recognition without adding revelation or creating authority.
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The Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
There is no religiously neutral textual criticism.
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The Word That Cannot Fail
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended — Thesis 7
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