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How the Church Must Answer Heresy: Admonition, Judgment, Censure, and Restoration
The final article explains how false doctrine should be handled in the church: by admonition, lawful judgment, discipline, and, where God grants it, restoration.
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Does Modern Textual Criticism Stand in Confessional Continuity? A Controlled Comparison
A controlled comparison tests authority, textual object, preservation, authenticity, variants, conjecture, criticism, and church reception without collapsing history into judgment.
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When the Critical Text Moves Toward the Received Text
Many announced NA29 changes restore readings found in the Textus Receptus and Authorized Version. Those reversals do not grant the received text new authority; they expose the fallibility of the editions that first departed from it.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Why I Preach from the Received Text
Why I Preach from the Received Text: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds.’s Why I Preach from the Received Text rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence,…
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A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text
Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every disputed place.
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Elijah Hixson: Evangelical Profession and the Ordinary-Fate Model of Transmission
Elijah Hixson’s work is useful for testing whether Scripture is being treated as uniquely preserved or as undergoing the same fate as any other ancient text.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Mark L. Ward Jr.’s Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity,…
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The Myth of the Neutral Manuscript Fact
Manuscripts are real facts in God’s world, but age, brevity, difficulty, genealogy, and transmissional probability never rank themselves. Bahnsen’s rejection of brute facts applies inside textual criticism.
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The Apparatus Is Not an Eyewitness
A modern apparatus gives a necessary editorial summary, not a time machine. Alexandrinus must be judged through its material history, dated observers, transmissional possibilities, and ecclesiastical reception.
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Gill, Buxtorf, and the Hebrew Vowel Points: Expertise, Usage, and Historical Testimony
The vowel-point controversy requires exact claims about written signs, vocalization, authority, and doctrinal use rather than an appeal to famous names.
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The Only Honest Ways Off the Plane
An unwanted conclusion can be escaped by retracting a premise, disproving a necessary connection, exposing equivocation, or showing invalid inference. Denial does not reroute an argument.
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Evidence Under Authority: A Confessional Use of Manuscripts
The alternative to extant-manuscript supremacy is not ignorance. It is a disciplined, ministerial use of historical evidence under the authority of the preserved text God has given His church.
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