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Presuppositional Analysis: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
A Disputation on Holy Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Whitaker’s Reformation polemic replies to Roman claims…
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Where Does Mark End? Mark 16:9–20 and the Price of an Abrupt Gospel
A reader reaches Mark 16:8 and finds the women fleeing the tomb. They tremble. They are amazed. They say nothing to anyone because they are afraid. Then, in many modern Bibles, a rule, bracket, or note interrupts the page. The next twelve…
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The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical claim that the original Hebrew and Greek texts were kept pure, are authentical, and…
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The Preconditions of Textual Intelligibility
Textual criticism is possible only because reality is ordered, language is meaningful, testimony is knowable, truth is binding, and a determinate text exists. Those conditions require the Christian worldview the critical method brackets.
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The Autograph Nobody Has
The absence of the physical autographs does not prove that the church lacks the authentic text; it raises the question whether the final rule is an extant Word or a probability about a lost document.
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When a Text Becomes Public: Printing, Preservation, and the End of Manuscript Necessity
Printing did not inspire an editor or create Scripture. It did make a received text publicly stable and widely accessible, so that the church's possession of the Word no longer depended upon the survival of particular manuscript artifacts.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Bahnsen’s philosophical dissertation analyzes self-deception, not…
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Who Put John 5:4 into the Bible? What the Evidence Actually Proves
The question came to Wesley Huff from a Mormon missionary: Who took John 5:4 out of your Bible? Huff describes turning to the passage and finding verse 3 followed by verse 5. His answer reverses the accusation. The better question, he says,…
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R. L. Dabney’s 1871 Indictment of the Critical Canons
Dabney argued that nineteenth-century critics did not merely disagree over facts; they worked with rival codes whose rules could reverse one another and lacked a common umpire.
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Of the Holy Scripture IV: Original Languages, Preservation, Interpretation, and Final Appeal
The final paragraphs of Westminster Confession 1 ask whether the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures have been kept pure, whether they remain the church's authentic court of appeal, how translations serve the people of God, and how Scripture interprets Scripture. This article…
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Did Bahnsen Hold the Historic Reformed Doctrine of Inspiration?
Bahnsen’s doctrine was substantially Reformed at the point of Scripture’s divine production, but modern and Warfieldian at transmission, textual identity, and the continuing locus of the inspired Word.
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