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Erasmus, Vaticanus, and the Comma: What the Familiar Story Leaves Out
There is a version of the history of 1 John 5:7 that can be told before the coffee cools. Erasmus could not find the heavenly witnesses in Greek. He rashly promised to print them if anyone produced one Greek copy. A manuscript…
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“God Was Manifest” in the Canonical Context
Θεός produces an explicit confession of the incarnation, fits the grammar, and agrees with Scripture’s repeated identification of Christ as God. Canonical harmony is not a substitute for manuscript evidence, but neither is it irrelevant.
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Lane Keister: Preservation Affirmed, but What Has Been Preserved?
Lane Keister explicitly affirms preservation, but the question is whether the doctrine he affirms is the same doctrine confessed in Westminster 1.8.
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Westminster's "Kept Pure in All Ages": Recovering the Assembly's Historical Claim
Westminster 1.8 confesses a providentially preserved, presently authentic Hebrew and Greek rule without identifying every witness or one flawless printing.
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Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the confessional doctrine.
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Docetism: Flesh Only in Appearance
Docetism protects a heavenly Savior from real flesh, blood, suffering, and death. Scripture answers that the Word truly became man and redeemed us in the same nature that had fallen.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Inspiration of Scripture
The Inspiration of Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Robert D. Preus’s The Inspiration of Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Preus investigates seventeenth-century Lutheran dogmaticians on Scripture, seeking…
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Scrivener’s Reconstruction: Greek Authority and English Evidence
F. H. A. Scrivener reconstructed the Greek textual basis represented by the Authorized Version. His method began with the English historical question but required Greek authority for the answers; it was not an English-to-Greek translation project.
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Book or Tree? Revelation 22:19 and the Myth of Doctrinal Neutrality
The last warning in Scripture is also the site of a textual dispute. The received text of Revelation 22:19 warns that if a man takes away from the words of the prophecy, God will take away his part “out of the book…
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One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile of that particular book must be established.
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The Demiurge and the Good Creator
The lower-creator systems did not merely distinguish God from creation. They placed the visible world under a maker other than the supreme Father and divided Christ from the God of the prophets.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Louis Gaussen’s Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Gaussen…
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