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The Preconditions of Textual Intelligibility
Textual criticism is possible only because reality is ordered, language is meaningful, testimony is knowable, truth is binding, and a determinate text exists. Those conditions require the Christian worldview the critical method brackets.
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Wettstein Changed His Mind
The strongest historical objection came from a scholar who first acknowledged the fine stroke and later denied it. Wettstein’s reversal must be heard fairly—but it does not erase the earlier observations.
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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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The Word by Which Every Doctrine Is Judged
Because Scripture is the rule by which the church knows all doctrine, corruption in bibliology can become foundational rather than merely secondary.
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When a Text Becomes Public: Printing, Preservation, and the End of Manuscript Necessity
Printing did not inspire an editor or create Scripture. It did make a received text publicly stable and widely accessible, so that the church's possession of the Word no longer depended upon the survival of particular manuscript artifacts.
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Two Endings, One Received Gospel: Eusebius, Jerome, and Burgon’s Ledger of Mark 16
Eusebius and Jerome cannot be suppressed in a defense of Mark 16:9–20; they report copies which lacked the ending. But neither Father simply declares the passage spurious, and Jerome’s parallel cannot be counted as an independent manuscript census. This article weighs their…
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Subordination Without Arianism?
The Father sends and the incarnate Son obeys, yet Father and Son remain equal in the one divine essence. The textual audit must distinguish personal order, redemptive mission, and true humanity from Arian inferiority.
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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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Who Put John 5:4 into the Bible? What the Evidence Actually Proves
The question came to Wesley Huff from a Mormon missionary: Who took John 5:4 out of your Bible? Huff describes turning to the passage and finding verse 3 followed by verse 5. His answer reverses the accusation. The better question, he says,…
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Mark 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?
Jesus either challenges the father’s ability to believe or takes up the father’s own words, “If thou canst.” Both lead to the declaration that all things are possible to the believer.
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 2: The Lost Autograph Cannot Rule the Church
A Bible located only in vanished autographs cannot function as the church's present rule. The question is not whether God inspired the first inscription, but whether He preserved His words in a form His people can identify and obey.
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R. L. Dabney’s 1871 Indictment of the Critical Canons
Dabney argued that nineteenth-century critics did not merely disagree over facts; they worked with rival codes whose rules could reverse one another and lacked a common umpire.
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