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Calvin, Whitaker, and Turretin: Error, Obstinacy, and the Foundations of Faith
Calvin, Whitaker, and Turretin confirm that the church must distinguish lesser errors from formal heresy while still defending foundational truths.
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Why God Committed His Word
God spoke before Scripture was complete. He addressed Adam, covenanted with Noah and Abraham, appeared to the patriarchs, and made his will known through dreams, visions, angels, prophets, mighty acts, and his own voice from heaven. The church therefore did not begin…
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Francis Turretin on the Heavenly Witnesses, Part I: Canonical Authority
A new English rendering of the first seven theses of Turretin's 1674 disputation on 1 John 5:7.
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The Moving Critical Text and the Demand for Certainty
Critical editions are designed to change as methods and evidence change. The issue is not whether scholarship may correct mistakes, but whether an indefinitely reconstructed text can serve as the confession’s authentic final appeal.
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Trying to Destroy the Old Foundation
Variants, printed-edition differences, older manuscripts, and fallible ecclesiastical judgments deserve examination. None by itself disproves an authentic text kept pure in all ages, and none establishes the authority of a reconstructed replacement.
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Which Text Did the Reformed Confessions Identify as Authentic?
The confessions name no printer, but they do not point to an unknown future reconstruction. They identify the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures actually received, used, translated, and appealed to by the Reformed churches.
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Erasmus and Delitzsch: What Must Be Conceded
Delitzsch’s manuscript evidence must be heard, but rapid production does not prove a reckless race to print, and the final six verses of Revelation cannot be dismissed by the unqualified slogan that Erasmus simply back-translated them from the Vulgate.
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 1: What Is Being Charged?
The charge is not that every user of a critical edition is personally an atheist. It is that a theory which makes a revisable scholarly reconstruction the final court of textual authority adopts an atheistic epistemology at that point.
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Of the Holy Scripture III: Self-Attestation, Sufficiency, and Clarity
Westminster Confession 1.5–1.7 teaches that Scripture manifests itself as God's Word, contains the whole counsel necessary for faith and life, and is clear in all things necessary to salvation. This article tests those claims without reducing self-attestation to private feeling or sufficiency…
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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact, and textual identity.
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The Presuppositional Exception
Modern defenders of the critical text confess Scripture as their ultimate authority everywhere except at the point where the words of Scripture are identified. That exception exposes the method's deepest inconsistency.
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Before the Stroke Faded
The earliest English collators treated Alexandrinus as reading θεός, but their evidence must be weighed honestly. Collational silence is not the same thing as a described inspection.
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