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Burden of Proof, Certainty Labels, and the Verdict Scale
Textual facts, historical inferences, translations, doctrinal consequences, and contradiction claims carry different burdens of proof. This article fixes the certainty labels and verdict rules that govern the reconstruction test.
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From Enlightenment Criticism to Westcott and Hort
Richard Simon had converted textual uncertainty into an argument for Roman tradition. If the extant copies could not identify and interpret the Word of God with sufficient certainty, the church must provide the certainty the text lacked. The preceding article examined that…
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Preservation Extends to the Words of Scripture
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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B. B. Warfield and the Evangelical Adoption of the Academy Game
Westcott and Hort did not invent restorationist textual criticism, but their 1881 edition gave it a commanding historical theory and an imposing scholarly form. The question confronting conservative Protestants was therefore no longer whether the new criticism existed. It was whether its…
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Preservation Pertains to the Inspired Text, Not to the Material Survival of the Autographs
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article defines exactly what NA28 controls in the reconstruction test.
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From Extant Infallibility to Lost-Autograph Inerrancy
Part Sixteen considered B. B. Warfield’s historical role in bringing restorationist textual criticism into conservative American theology. The present article turns from that history to the doctrinal change itself. What happens when the perfection of Scripture is located exclusively in the first…
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Preservation Does Not Require Every Manuscript or Copy to Be Errorless
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preserved or Merely Recoverable?
Part Seventeen distinguished the infallible canonical text from the fallible artifacts that witness to it. God did not immediately inspire every scribe, printer, editor, or translator. Yet the fallibility of particular witnesses does not imply that the inspired text disappeared with the…
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Preservation Is an Act of God’s Special Providence toward His Church
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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The Missing Verses Return in Double Brackets: What Counts as the Main Text?
UBS6 restores every numbered verse to the running Greek text while marking disputed additions with double brackets. The change improves visibility but forces a precise distinction between printed location, editorial adoption, and canonical authority.
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Preservation with a Preserved Text: The Confessional Verdict
States the series’ confessional verdict that preservation must terminate in an identifiable, publicly possessed Hebrew and Greek text prior to the critic’s judgment.
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