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The Presuppositional Exception
Modern defenders of the critical text confess Scripture as their ultimate authority everywhere except at the point where the words of Scripture are identified. That exception exposes the method's deepest inconsistency.
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Manuscripts Are Witnesses, Not the Word’s Magisterial Judges
Confessional Bibliology does not reject manuscript evidence. It assigns manuscripts their proper office: real and necessary witnesses that serve the authentic text without constituting its authority.
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Preservation Entails the Public Availability of the Authentic Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation Is an Act of God’s Special Providence toward His Church
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation with a Preserved Text: The Confessional Verdict
States the series’ confessional verdict that preservation must terminate in an identifiable, publicly possessed Hebrew and Greek text prior to the critic’s judgment.
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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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An Apologetic with a Borrowed Standard: How Guild Dependence Weakens the Defense of the Faith
A Christian cannot consistently challenge autonomous reason after granting it final jurisdiction over the identity of Scripture. The defense of the faith must begin under Christ’s Lordship, including its textual foundation.
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Ecclesiastical Reception Recognizes the Text but Does Not Create It
The church does not make the Bible. The Bible makes the church.
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Reasoning with Unbelievers and Heretics under Scripture’s Final Court
The Christian must answer unbelief and heresy without surrendering Scripture’s authority to a supposedly neutral court.
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Stop Playing the Game: A Confessional Manifesto
A concluding confession for textual scholarship under Scripture: no neutrality, no academic magisterium, no retreat into KJV-onlyism, and no fear of man.
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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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