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Has God Preserved His Word—or Merely Its Raw Materials?
The survival of thousands of variant-bearing manuscripts is providentially important, but the existence of evidence is not yet the confession that an authentic text was kept pure and remains available for final appeal.
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This Is Not an Intramural Sports Day. This Is a Battle to the Death.
The identity and authority of Holy Scripture are not sidelines in the life of the church. Treating their destruction as a harmless intramural disagreement is not charity. It is a refusal to guard the foundation.
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The Book We Are Answering: Edition, Scope, and the Controlling Question
A fair answer to James White must identify the editions, grant his sound case against English re-inspiration, and isolate the question his book has not settled: whether the church possesses an authentic Hebrew and Greek text.
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The Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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Matthew 5:18 and the Written Form of Scripture
Matthew 5:18 principally declares the law’s abiding authority and fulfillment, but Christ makes that declaration through the smallest written features. Doctrine and written form must be held together.
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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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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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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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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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