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Infallibility and Inerrancy: When Shared Words Conceal a Doctrinal Shift
Warfield did not invent biblical truthfulness, but his autographic formulation reconfigured the locus of perfection and the role of textual criticism.
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Speaking the Truth in Love: Calamy’s Trinitarian Conclusion
Calamy concludes that doctrinal truth and Christian love must be maintained jointly: charity cannot erase the Trinity, and zeal cannot excuse pride, suspicion, or cruelty.
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‘No Doctrine Is Affected’ Is Not an Answer
A doctrine may survive elsewhere while a changed reading removes, weakens, or redirects what one passage says. The proper question is not whether Christianity survives, but what exact scriptural proposition has changed.
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Secret Knowledge, Spiritual Castes, and Hostility to Creation
Several ancient systems replaced the public apostolic gospel with elite knowledge, divided humanity into fixed spiritual kinds, and treated marriage or food as stains from an inferior creation.
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Is the Harder Reading Better?
Lectio difficilior assumes that scribes smooth what troubles them. But errors also create difficulty, and the critic must define hard, identify its cause, and guard against smuggling a doctrine of error into the text.
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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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Peter J. Gurry: Inerrancy, the Initial Text, and the Authority of Critical Reconstruction
Peter J. Gurry explicitly affirms inerrancy, so the question is whether his textual model preserves the object to which inerrancy meaningfully applies.
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Gill, Buxtorf, and the Hebrew Vowel Points: Expertise, Usage, and Historical Testimony
The vowel-point controversy requires exact claims about written signs, vocalization, authority, and doctrinal use rather than an appeal to famous names.
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How Can These Things Be? Curiosity and Holy Restraint
Calamy distinguishes faithful inquiry from the demand to comprehend God, showing why reason must receive revealed truth without pretending to measure the infinite by the finite.
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Evidence Under Authority: A Confessional Use of Manuscripts
The alternative to extant-manuscript supremacy is not ignorance. It is a disciplined, ministerial use of historical evidence under the authority of the preserved text God has given His church.
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The Critical Text Changes Again: What the 169 Decisions Are
NA29 will differ from NA28 at 169 main-text locations in Mark, Acts, and Revelation. Before asking what those changes mean, we must state what is changing and name the standard by which it will be judged.
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Separationism: Jesus Divided from Christ
Cerinthian separationism joined a heavenly Christ to the man Jesus only for a time. The apostolic answer is one enduring person who comes in flesh, blood, suffering, resurrection, and glory.
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