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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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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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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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From Divine Revelation to Divine Judgment
Westminster Chapter 1 begins with God making himself known and ends with God rendering judgment. Its opening movement is, “It pleased the Lord … to reveal himself”; its closing declaration is that the church must rest in “the Holy Spirit speaking in…
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What “Authentical” Means
In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of appeal.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: The Doctrine Before the Controversy
Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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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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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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What ‘Kept Pure in All Ages’ Actually Confesses
The original grammar, proof texts, polemical setting, and final-appeal clause of WCF 1.8 identify a preserved Hebrew and Greek text—not merely surviving doctrine or scattered textual possibilities.
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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm possessed by the church.
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The Inerrancy of the Autographa: What Bahnsen Rightly Affirmed
Before criticizing Bahnsen’s textual locus, a fair account must recognize his strong defense of divine authorship, verbal and plenary inspiration, complete truthfulness, and the real authority of faithful copies.
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One Bible, Many Reconstructions: Where Does the Text Exist?
There is a sentence in Wesley Huff’s account of the New Testament that invites confidence and postpones definition. The original writings, he says, have been lost; nevertheless, the Bible itself was not lost. New discoveries have instead broadened our knowledge and allowed…
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