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Matthew 27:16–49 — Jesus Barabbas, Vinegar and Gall, Divided Garments, the King of Israel, and the Spear Thrust
The passion narrative carries several famous variants. Some early manuscripts call the released prisoner Jesus Barabbas.
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Building the Westminster Proof-Text Dataset
A whole-system reconstruction cannot be run from anecdotes. It requires a versioned ledger linking atomic Westminster propositions to every proof passage, textual event, translation choice, premise, control result, and bounded verdict.
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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without making critical reconstruction its higher court.
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Why Confessional Bibliology Confesses Infallibility, Not Inerrancy
Confessional Bibliology will use infallibility for its positive confession of Holy Scripture. This is not permission for error. It is a deliberate commitment to the present, preserved, authentic Hebrew and Greek rule—and a refusal to let an autographic formula govern confessional language.
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Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text
The previous thesis argued that the traditional text must be evaluated as a providential whole. That conclusion immediately raises a practical question.
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Evidence Is Not the Instrument: Manuscripts, Editions, and the Rule of Faith
Manuscripts and critical apparatuses are indispensable witnesses, but the rule of faith is the divine text to which they witness. Confusing evidence with Scripture reverses their proper authority.
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What James White Answered—and What He Did Not
James White said he had fully refuted Chris Thomas’s charge. This article identifies the claim he answered, the question left open, and the exact confessional test that must govern the dispute.
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The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist
A question at the end of the Riddle-White debate exposed the prior problem modern textual criticism cannot evade: by what ultimate standard are manuscripts, canons, and critics themselves judged?
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Mark 1:2 — “In the Prophets” or “in Isaiah the Prophet”? The Opening Citation
Mark introduces a composite citation with either “in the prophets” or “in Isaiah the prophet.” The difference forces a question about quotation formulas, not about whether Scripture contains an error.
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Translations Are Recipients, Not Sources
The Authorized Version receives inspiration and infallibility derivatively, while preservation belongs to the authentic Hebrew and Greek texts.
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How Confessional Bibliology Reviews a Book
A book review should explain what a work set out to do, judge what it actually accomplished, and tell the reader how to use it. This is why each part of our review method exists.
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What Does “Kept Pure in All Ages” Mean? A Precise Confessional Definition
“Kept pure in all ages” means that God preserved the full verbal Hebrew and Greek text he inspired, in the body of copies used by his church, so that no part of Scripture was lost and no future reconstruction is needed.
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