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The Word Given and the Word Kept: Inspiration, Canon, and Preservation as One Work of the Faithful God
Inspiration, canon, and preservation are distinguishable acts within one faithful divine work by which God gives and keeps his written Word for the church.
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“If God Wanted Certainty, He Would Have Preserved the Autographs”
Answers the counterfactual claim that textual certainty would have required God to preserve the physical autographs rather than their text in faithful apographs.
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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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“Through the Manuscripts”: Does an Aggregate of Competing Readings Constitute a Preserved Text?
An aggregate of mutually exclusive readings is evidence about a text, not itself the preserved and authentic text confessed by the church.
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No Doctrine Hangs on a Variant: The Retreat from Verbal Preservation to Doctrinal Survival
The survival of essential doctrine is a mercy, but it cannot identify the inspired wording of a disputed passage or replace verbal preservation.
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The Elder Is a Steward, Not a Judge of Revelation
An elder is Christ’s herald, steward, shepherd, and watchman; fitness for office therefore requires submission to revelation rather than judgment over it.
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Ministerial Judgment or Magisterial Judgment?
Human judgment is unavoidable, but it is faithful only when reason, evidence, church, and scholarship recognize rather than create divine authority.
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Orthodox Words and Autonomous Methods
Orthodox formulas cannot excuse a method that functionally relocates final authority from the self-attesting Word to autonomous human judgment.
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When Does Error Become Disqualifying?
Doctrinal error becomes disqualifying for office through its gravity, clarity, public reach, obstinacy, and harm, as judged by lawful ecclesiastical process.
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No Officer Owns the Truth
Ordination confers office. It does not confer ownership of the truth.
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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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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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