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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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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 Manuscript That Survived: Why Extant-Witness Supremacy Is a Non Sequitur
A surviving manuscript can be evidence of a reading. Its survival cannot, by itself, prove that the reading is superior to the Received Text. The missing premise is exactly what the argument needs to establish.
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The God Gregory of Nyssa Read: 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Greek Church Before the Critical Text
Gregory of Nyssa did not merely teach Christ’s deity in general terms. In his controversy with Eunomius, he introduced 1 Timothy 3:16 as Paul’s plain declaration that “God was manifest in the flesh.” His testimony does not eliminate every textual question, but…
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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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Presuppositional Analysis: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
A Disputation on Holy Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Whitaker’s Reformation polemic replies to Roman claims…
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Where Does Mark End? Mark 16:9–20 and the Price of an Abrupt Gospel
A reader reaches Mark 16:8 and finds the women fleeing the tomb. They tremble. They are amazed. They say nothing to anyone because they are afraid. Then, in many modern Bibles, a rule, bracket, or note interrupts the page. The next twelve…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 3: Probability Cannot Speak with Divine Authority
Historical investigation may serve the church, but it cannot become the court that decides what God has said. A probable reading cannot bear the same authority as a known word of God.
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical claim that the original Hebrew and Greek texts were kept pure, are authentical, and…
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The Preconditions of Textual Intelligibility
Textual criticism is possible only because reality is ordered, language is meaningful, testimony is knowable, truth is binding, and a determinate text exists. Those conditions require the Christian worldview the critical method brackets.
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The Autograph Nobody Has
The absence of the physical autographs does not prove that the church lacks the authentic text; it raises the question whether the final rule is an extant Word or a probability about a lost document.
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