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A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions
The inspired text, the manuscripts that witness it, and the editions that present it must be distinguished without separating the text from its providentially preserved witnesses.
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Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
Textual criticism is legitimate when it serves the preserved text under Scripture’s authority; it becomes illegitimate when scholarship is made the court that gives the text its identity.
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Bahnsen Against Bahnsen: The Question the Apologist Left Unfinished
Greg Bahnsen defended the self-attesting Word, rejected neutrality, and demanded Christian certainty. His doctrine of the extant biblical text did not consistently carry those principles through preservation, textual identity, and final authority.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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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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The Church Must Receive, Confess, and Use the Text God Has Preserved
The doctrine of Scripture cannot end in a library.
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in principle?
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The Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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