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Orthodox Words and Autonomous Methods
Orthodox formulas cannot excuse a method that functionally relocates final authority from the self-attesting Word to autonomous human judgment.
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Why This Site Exists: A Lay Theological Publication Under the Authority of Holy Scripture
A declaration of what Confessional Bibliology is, what it is not, and why every claim published here must stand beneath the authority of Holy Scripture.
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Evidence as Servant, Not Sovereign: The Proper Work of Textual Inquiry
Defines the ministerial use of manuscripts, versions, linguistic study, and historical evidence beneath the doctrine and authority of Scripture.
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The Word That Judges Every Judge
Every human judge—elder, scholar, council, or private reader—must be judged by the self-attesting Word that speaks with God’s own authority.
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The Stream Cannot Correct the Fountain
A Greek translation may preserve ancient evidence and serve the Church as a valuable witness. It cannot become the judge of the inspired Hebrew text from which its authority is derived.
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What James White Calls ‘TR-Onlyism’
James White distinguishes several kinds of KJV and Received Text advocacy. The problem is not that no distinctions appear, but that one umbrella label can conceal decisive differences in authority, text, preservation, and method.
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Confessional Bibliology Is Not KJV-Onlyism
Confessional Bibliology values the Authorized Version because of its fidelity to the received Hebrew and Greek texts, but it places every translation beneath those authentic originals.
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NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article defines exactly what NA28 controls in the reconstruction test.
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The ECM, the CBGM, and the Reconstruction of an Initial Text
The ECM supplies the evidence and editorial decisions behind the newest hand editions, while the CBGM analyzes coherence within a contaminated tradition. Neither should be caricatured as an automatic computer-generated Bible.
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The Received Greek and Hebrew Controls: Editions, History, and Fair Comparison
A fair reconstruction test requires identified received-text controls, not an undefined ‘TR’ or the KJV treated as inspired Greek and Hebrew. This article fixes the editions, historical checks, and comparison rules.
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Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset
A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result, and bounded verdict.
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Infallibility Is Not the Weaker Word: Two Terms and Two Doctrinal Histories
Infallibility and inerrancy are now often treated as synonyms, while infallibility is also recast as a weaker promise that Scripture succeeds only in religious matters. The history is more exacting: Warfield did not coin inerrancy or cease using infallibility, but he did…
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