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From “Erasmus’s Handful” to the Church’s Text: What the Small-Base Argument Leaves Out
Places Erasmus’s early printed editions within the broader manuscript, liturgical, editorial, and ecclesiastical inheritance behind the Received Text tradition.
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Matthew 5:18 Reconsidered: The Law’s Continuity and the Text’s Continuity
Matthew 5:18 primarily promises the law’s enduring authority, yet that authority necessarily entails the continuity of its identifiable written words.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
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The Confessional Text, the Authorized Version, and What We Do Not Mean by KJV-Onlyism: Original-Language Authority, Faithful Translation, and Necessary Distinctions
Distinguishes original-language authenticity from derivative translation authority and defines the publication’s position on the Authorized Version and KJV-onlyism.
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How Christian Polemics Must Be Conducted: Truth, Evidence, Proportion, and Correction
Sets the biblical and editorial rules for truthful evidence, proportionate judgment, fair response, visible correction, and proper ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
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Why This Website Exists—and Why Lay Status Is Not a Command to Silence
Christ's appointment of church officers does not cancel the ordinary Christian's duty to confess, test, and answer public theological claims under Scripture.
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Private Judgment Without Autonomous Judgment
Private judgment is unavoidable and personal, yet it remains ministerial, corrigible, ecclesial, and bound to the self-attesting Word.
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The Office of Believer: Every Christian a Confessor
Every Christian shares a general calling to confess, discern, admonish, and serve without usurping the special authority Christ gives church officers.
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The Real Authority—and Real Limitations—of Elders
Elders possess real authority for edification within Christ’s appointed jurisdiction, yet their rule remains ministerial, limited, accountable, and bound to Scripture.
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“Let the Righteous Smite Me”: Fraternal Reproof in the Reformed Tradition
Fraternal reproof is a lawful work of love governed by truth, humility, proportion, and the aim of restoration rather than reproach.
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Truth Does Not Change with the Speaker’s Credentials
A defense of the duty to test arguments by Scripture, evidence, and valid reasoning while giving expertise and ecclesiastical office their proper but limited weight.
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The Battle Lost Before the First Variant Is Examined
A method that begins with a possibly lost Bible can produce only a possibly recovered Bible; confessional certainty must govern before the first variant is weighed.
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