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Doctrine of the Canon Part 7
The Essential Attributes of Canonicity—Divine Authority and Infallibility Article 7 Series 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction What sets the canonical books of Scripture apart from all other writings? In Christian theology, two…
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Why This Site Exists: A Lay Theological Publication Under the Authority of Holy Scripture
A declaration of what Confessional Bibliology is, what it is not, and why every claim published here must stand beneath the authority of Holy Scripture.
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A Revision Becomes a Reconstruction
The 1881 Revisers were commissioned to revise the Authorized Version, yet their own rules and preface show that they also judged and altered its underlying Greek text. That second operation changed the work’s object—and moved the practical court of appeal from a…
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Why This Website Exists—and Why Lay Status Is Not a Command to Silence
Christ's appointment of church officers does not cancel the ordinary Christian's duty to confess, test, and answer public theological claims under Scripture.
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When the Critic Becomes the Judge: What Is Magisterial Textual Criticism?
Magisterial textual criticism is defined not by the tools it uses but by the judicial office assigned to critical reconstruction over the church's text.
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What It Means to Play the Academy Game
The academy game begins when a Christian agrees to suspend Scripture's authority and preservation promises before textual evidence may be examined.
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A Necessary Clarification: Lane Keister Affirms Preservation—but What Does He Mean?
Lane Keister affirms preservation; the remaining question is whether that affirmation gives the church an identifiable and publicly possessed text.
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What Convocation Actually Authorized
The Revisers were not forbidden to consider Greek variants. Their own rules expressly authorized textual changes when the evidence was judged decidedly preponderating. The real controversy begins after that fact is admitted: the mandate made a received text answerable to reconstructive judgment.
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The Battle Lost Before the First Variant Is Examined
A method that begins with a possibly lost Bible can produce only a possibly recovered Bible; confessional certainty must govern before the first variant is weighed.
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When Criticism Serves the Word: What Is Ministerial Textual Criticism?
Ministerial textual criticism uses manuscripts, versions, history, grammar, and reason as servants of the original-language Scriptures God has already given and preserved.
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Four Different Doctrines Hiding Under One Word: Survival, Recoverability, Identifiability, and Public Possession
Material survival, critical recoverability, textual identifiability, and public possession are four different claims; only careful distinction reveals what a doctrine of preservation actually supplies.
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The Supreme Judge of All Religious Controversies: Why Scripture Judges Councils, Confessions, Scholars, Churches, and Private Spirits
Scripture is the supreme court of religious controversy; councils, confessions, scholars, churches, and private judgments possess only subordinate authority.
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