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John Owen's "Divine Original": Authority Joined to Integrity and Purity
Owen's paired 1659 treatises join Scripture's divine authority to the integrity and purity of the extant Hebrew and Greek text without making copyists inspired.
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Naturalism in Theological Dress
Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Louis Gaussen’s Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Gaussen…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 5: Four Escapes That Cannot Save the Critical Text
The usual replies to the preservation argument either redefine preservation, reduce the rule of faith to a doctrinal core, or make scholarly probability supreme. None supplies a present and identifiable Word able to judge the church.
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Providence Plus Textual Science: The Restoration Principle
Bahnsen’s assurance rests on providence together with textual criticism, while his rule that an imperfect text should yield to a superior one makes present textual identity reconstructionist in structure.
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Old Is Not Original: Antiquity, Attrition, and the Appeal to Age
An older manuscript may be historically valuable, but it is not thereby a more authentic manuscript. Date is chronology, not a divine or genealogical verdict.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. The relevant Goold-volume treatises are “Of the Divine Original…
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The Woman They Put in Brackets: John 7:53–8:11 and the Canonical Cost
The story is known even by people who cannot place it in John. A woman is brought into the temple. Her accusers say she was taken in adultery. They ask whether the law of Moses requires her to be stoned, and they…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 4: The Borrowed Bible and the God Who Kept His Word
The critical-text position borrows the authority of a Bible whose public identity it cannot ground. Christ's promise requires an available and identifiable written Word; the confessional doctrine of preservation supplies it.
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‘God Has Not Promised Perfect Transmission’: From Kept Pure to Essential Purity
Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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