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Evidence as Servant, Not Sovereign: The Proper Work of Textual Inquiry
Defines the ministerial use of manuscripts, versions, linguistic study, and historical evidence beneath the doctrine and authority of Scripture.
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The Word That Judges Every Judge
Every human judge—elder, scholar, council, or private reader—must be judged by the self-attesting Word that speaks with God’s own authority.
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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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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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The Reformed Orthodox on Present Textual Purity
Surveys Reformed orthodox teaching on the present authenticity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures while acknowledging ordinary transmissional variation.
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From Owen to Warfield: When Preservation Became Restoration
Traces the shift from John Owen’s doctrine of a presently possessed authentic text to B. B. Warfield’s account of autographic inerrancy and critical restoration.
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“Textual Criticism Has No Explicit Biblical Guidelines”: The Admission That Controls the System
Analyzes the methodological consequence of admitting that textual criticism has no explicit biblical guidelines for ordering its probabilistic canons.
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All New Testament Editions Are Eclectic: A Misleading Equivalence
Distinguishes correcting an inherited textual base from reconstructing a text from an aggregate and explains why calling every edition eclectic obscures that difference.
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From “Erasmus’s Handful” to the Church’s Text: What the Small-Base Argument Leaves Out
Places Erasmus’s early printed editions within the broader manuscript, liturgical, editorial, and ecclesiastical inheritance behind the Received Text tradition.
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Matthew 5:18 Reconsidered: The Law’s Continuity and the Text’s Continuity
Matthew 5:18 primarily promises the law’s enduring authority, yet that authority necessarily entails the continuity of its identifiable written words.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of Neutrality: Why God’s Revelation Cannot Be Authenticated by a Higher Human Court
Scripture bears God’s own authority and cannot be authenticated by a higher neutral court; evidence and reason serve beneath its self-attesting testimony.
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The Confessional Text, the Authorized Version, and What We Do Not Mean by KJV-Onlyism: Original-Language Authority, Faithful Translation, and Necessary Distinctions
Distinguishes original-language authenticity from derivative translation authority and defines the publication’s position on the Authorized Version and KJV-onlyism.
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