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Revelation’s Missing Ending: Evidence, Limits, and Later Editions
The alleged back-translation of Revelation’s ending is regularly stated as a fixed fact, although the number of verses changes with the retelling. Erasmus’s own statements establish a narrower history, which must be traced reading by reading and edition by edition.
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Infallibility in Name, Autographic Inerrancy in Structure
Bahnsen used infallibility in its strongest sense, yet confined it formally to the autographic text. The decisive issue is not vocabulary but the present locus of final authority.
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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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God, That Cannot Lie
Divine truthfulness is not a habit God might suspend. Scripture identifies the living God as the one who cannot lie, cannot deny himself, and performs every promise he makes.
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The Missing Position: Confessional Bibliology in White's Taxonomy
Define the authentic Hebrew and Greek text as final authority and the KJV as a derivative, faithful translation.
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Erasmus and Codex Vaticanus: The Claim Must Be Tested
The claim that Erasmus ignored or never had access to Codex Vaticanus usually confuses a physical codex, readings reported from it, and Erasmus’s own stated judgment about those readings. Those are not interchangeable things.
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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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Preservation, Canonization, and Recognition: Three Questions That Must Not Be Confused
Which books are Scripture, what words constitute those books, and how the church recognizes both are related but distinct questions. God creates the canon and text; the church receives them through ministerial means.
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Scripture Cannot Say Yea and Nay
The truthfulness and unity of Scripture are not an excuse to deny variant copies; they are a theological constraint on how the church identifies the canonical text.
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An Atheistic Argument and an Inconsistent Christian
A doctrine may deny the God of Scripture in its necessary consequence while its advocate sincerely professes Christian faith. The contradiction must be described without concealment or slander.
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The Comma Wager: What the Evidence Proves—and What It Does Not
The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what did the manuscript evidence establish, and what does neither prove?
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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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