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The Critical-Text Case, Stated at Its Strongest
Before testing modern textual criticism for arbitrariness, its historical claims, evidential appeals, editorial methods, and principal modern forms must be stated as their strongest advocates state them.
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How Confessional Bibliology Conducts a Presuppositional Analysis
A presuppositional analysis asks what a book must assume about authority, knowledge, text, history, providence, and judgment—and whether those assumptions can sustain its conclusions.
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Which Texts Are Authentical? The Hebrew and Greek Texts Confessional Bibliology Affirms—and Why
Confessional Bibliology receives the Ben Chayyim–Bomberg Masoretic Hebrew text, including its received vowel points, and the Greek Textus Receptus as the providentially preserved, authentical text of Scripture.
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Has God Preserved His Word—or Merely Its Raw Materials?
The survival of thousands of variant-bearing manuscripts is providentially important, but the existence of evidence is not yet the confession that an authentic text was kept pure and remains available for final appeal.
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The Testament Is Not Perpetually Under Probate: Kept Pure for the Heirs
God did not leave his church an estate file from which experts must perpetually reconstruct a will. He kept the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the authentic rule of faith for his heirs.
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The House upon the Sure Foundation
The Church did not give the Word of God its authority, and textual critics do not give it identity. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures, with Christ as the chief cornerstone, are the antecedent and authentic foundation upon which the Church is built.
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The Text in Question: Calamy''s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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The Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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Matthew 5:18 and the Written Form of Scripture
Matthew 5:18 principally declares the law’s abiding authority and fulfillment, but Christ makes that declaration through the smallest written features. Doctrine and written form must be held together.
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What “Authentical” Means
In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of appeal.
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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: The Doctrine Before the Controversy
Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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