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Preserved or Merely Recoverable?
Part Seventeen distinguished the infallible canonical text from the fallible artifacts that witness to it. God did not immediately inspire every scribe, printer, editor, or translator. Yet the fallibility of particular witnesses does not imply that the inspired text disappeared with the…
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“Tweaking,” “Plus,” and “Minus”: The Rhetoric by Which Critical Revision Becomes Neutral
Shows how apparently neutral terms such as plus, minus, and tweaking can conceal the editorial and ecclesiastical consequences of textual decisions.
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Preservation in Name Only
Theological revolutions do not always begin by rejecting familiar words. Often the older vocabulary is retained while its doctrinal content is quietly altered. Inspiration may be affirmed while reduced to religious insight. Resurrection may be affirmed while redefined as the disciples’ continuing…
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Not an Intramural Debate: The Textual Question Concerns What God Has Spoken
The textual question cannot be confined to an academic side room. It asks which words constitute the inspired, preserved, authentic rule by which every doctrine, translation, sermon, and controversy must be judged.
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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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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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The Same Words, Another Doctrine: Lane Keister, Equivocation, and the Ninth Commandment
Shows that Lane Keister’s claim of precise agreement on preservation depends upon giving the historic term a different aggregate and reconstructive meaning, then applies the Ninth Commandment to the resulting public equivocation without alleging knowledge of his heart.
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Infallibility Is Not the Weaker Word: Two Terms and Two Doctrinal Histories
Infallibility and inerrancy are now often treated as synonyms, while infallibility is also recast as a weaker promise that Scripture succeeds only in religious matters. The history is more exacting: Warfield did not coin inerrancy or cease using infallibility, but he did…
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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 Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved in the authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures for the church’s present use.
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When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text
The disappearance of an autograph does not entail the loss of its words. Probate law distinguishes a missing instrument from proof of its precise terms; Scripture distinguishes perishable artifacts from the enduring text.
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No Neutrality—Not Even in Textual Criticism
Collation can be technical, but no scholar interprets manuscript age, genealogy, scribal habits, or internal probability apart from controlling beliefs about God, history, authority, and preservation.
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