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No Brute Facts: Manuscripts Do Not Interpret Themselves
A manuscript’s date, wording, location, and genealogical relations are real facts. Their textual significance is not self-interpreting. Bahnsen’s doctrine of facts requires a theological account of the evidence.
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in principle?
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The Wheels on the Bus, the Plane, and the End of the Argument
A premise has consequences whether its advocate welcomes them or not. The opening article distinguishes professed intention from the fixed destination of a sound argument.
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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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The Claims on Trial: What Wes Huff Says About the Biblical Text
I have watched Christians breathe easier when an apologist says that the Bible has not been lost. I understand the relief. The believer has heard the usual litany: thousands of manuscripts, hundreds of thousands of variants, no surviving autograph, and a succession…
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A Claim Cannot Disown What It Entails
Necessary consequences belong to a claim even when its advocate has never intended or welcomed them. Careful argument separates entailment from tendency, association, and rhetoric.
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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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Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the preferred reading changes.
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The Inerrancy of the Autographa: What Bahnsen Rightly Affirmed
Before criticizing Bahnsen’s textual locus, a fair account must recognize his strong defense of divine authorship, verbal and plenary inspiration, complete truthfulness, and the real authority of faithful copies.
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Hoisting the Church
The critical text can replace the received text only if the Church transfers to a reconstructed product the old foundation’s titles: inspired, preserved, authentic, self-attesting, and final. That transfer requires a warrant the reconstructive method cannot supply.
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The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
Alternate title: From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1863.
Gaussen combines a historical case for the canon with a theological account of the believer’s certainty. He deliberately distinguishes evidence that may address the unbeliever from the divine ground of faith by which the church receives Scripture. The book mobilizes patristic testimony,…
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