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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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The Manuscript That Survived: Why Extant-Witness Supremacy Is a Non Sequitur
A surviving manuscript can be evidence of a reading. Its survival cannot, by itself, prove that the reading is superior to the Received Text. The missing premise is exactly what the argument needs to establish.
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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What Textual Evidence Would Count as Arian?
A shorter or altered reading may weaken an anti-Arian proof without teaching Arianism. This article fixes the five doctrinal-effect classes and the proof required for a reading, an edition, or a corpus-level indictment.
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Presuppositional Analysis: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
A Disputation on Holy Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Whitaker’s Reformation polemic replies to Roman claims…
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical claim that the original Hebrew and Greek texts were kept pure, are authentical, and…
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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 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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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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