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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 Doctrine Is Affected’ Is Not an Answer
A doctrine may survive elsewhere while a changed reading removes, weakens, or redirects what one passage says. The proper question is not whether Christianity survives, but what exact scriptural proposition has changed.
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Secret Knowledge, Spiritual Castes, and Hostility to Creation
Several ancient systems replaced the public apostolic gospel with elite knowledge, divided humanity into fixed spiritual kinds, and treated marriage or food as stains from an inferior creation.
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Scrivener’s Apparatus: A Citation Is Not a Manuscript
Scrivener’s collations and apparatuses are indispensable historical evidence, but an apparatus is a scholarly report about witnesses. It must be checked against the manuscripts, editions, and scope of the claim it is asked to support.
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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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Is the Harder Reading Better?
Lectio difficilior assumes that scribes smooth what troubles them. But errors also create difficulty, and the critic must define hard, identify its cause, and guard against smuggling a doctrine of error into the text.
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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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Peter J. Gurry: Inerrancy, the Initial Text, and the Authority of Critical Reconstruction
Peter J. Gurry explicitly affirms inerrancy, so the question is whether his textual model preserves the object to which inerrancy meaningfully applies.
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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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The Critical Text Changes Again: What the 169 Decisions Are
NA29 will differ from NA28 at 169 main-text locations in Mark, Acts, and Revelation. Before asking what those changes mean, we must state what is changing and name the standard by which it will be judged.
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Separationism: Jesus Divided from Christ
Cerinthian separationism joined a heavenly Christ to the man Jesus only for a time. The apostolic answer is one enduring person who comes in flesh, blood, suffering, resurrection, and glory.
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Scrivener and Revelation 22: The Citation Is Not the Case
Scrivener’s observations about Erasmus and Revelation are important but often made to carry conclusions they do not state. A citation is the beginning of an inquiry into a reading, not the end of the case.
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