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A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text
Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every disputed place.
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Elijah Hixson: Evangelical Profession and the Ordinary-Fate Model of Transmission
Elijah Hixson’s work is useful for testing whether Scripture is being treated as uniquely preserved or as undergoing the same fate as any other ancient text.
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No Major Doctrine? The Verdict After the Cases Have Been Heard
“No major doctrine is affected” is one of the most successful sentences in modern textual apologetics. It concedes the existence of differences while immediately limiting their importance. It permits the speaker to acknowledge omitted verses, altered predicates, bracketed narratives, and rival nouns…
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The Myth of the Neutral Manuscript Fact
Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies inside textual criticism.
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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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Evidence Under Authority: A Confessional Use of Manuscripts
The alternative to extant-manuscript supremacy is not ignorance. It is a disciplined, ministerial use of historical evidence under the authority of the preserved text God has given His church.
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When Textual Science Becomes Magisterial
Textual science becomes magisterial not when scholars study manuscripts, but when their revisable judgments regulate the identity and extent of the authority by which those judgments must be tried.
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Lane Keister: Preservation Affirmed, but What Has Been Preserved?
Lane Keister explicitly affirms preservation, but the question is whether the doctrine he affirms is the same doctrine confessed in Westminster 1.8.
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Westminster's "Kept Pure in All Ages": Recovering the Assembly's Historical Claim
Westminster 1.8 confesses a providentially preserved, presently authentic Hebrew and Greek rule without identifying every witness or one flawless printing.
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Providence Smuggled into the Apparatus
God's universal providence governs the survival of every manuscript. It does not reveal that a particular manuscript was preserved to correct the church's Bible. Treating survival as such a revelation confuses providence with a hidden canon.
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Naturalism in Theological Dress
Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
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When Surviving Witnesses Contradict One Another
Surviving manuscripts do not speak with one voice. A rule that makes mere survival authoritative collapses the moment two extant witnesses give incompatible readings.
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