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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Presuppositional Analysis: A Textual History of the King James Bible
A Textual History of the King James Bible: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question David Norton’s A Textual History of the King James Bible rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Norton…
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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A Necessary Concession: Why Ruckmanism Is Not Confessional Bibliology
The Authorized Version was not inspired afresh and may not correct Hebrew or Greek. Granting White that point clears away Ruckmanism while leaving the confessional doctrine of original-language preservation untouched.
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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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"The Only Consistency Is the KJV": Steele’s Accusation Stated Fairly
Stephen Steele’s case against the Trinitarian Bible Society is more substantial than a single slogan. This opening article states his argument at its strongest, identifies what he has genuinely shown, and fixes the further proof required by his charge that the KJV—not…
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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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The Light of Nature
Westminster begins its doctrine of Holy Scripture by denying two opposite errors. The first says fallen humanity lacks a clear revelation of God and therefore possesses a reasonable excuse for unbelief. The second says the revelation given in nature is sufficient, if…
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What the Trinitarian Bible Society Actually Says
TBS’s governing statement does not make the KJV its final authority. It expressly denies definitive status to every translation and places final appeal in the traditional Hebrew and Greek texts. Any charge of KJV supremacy must begin by confronting that formal doctrine.
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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm possessed by the church.
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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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