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God or He Who? 1 Timothy 3:16 Does Change the Proposition
In 1 Timothy 3:16, one small group of strokes carries a large claim. The received Greek text reads Theos ephanerōthē en sarki: “God was manifest in the flesh.” The modern critical text reads hos ephanerōthē en sarki: “who was manifested in the…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 5: Four Escapes That Cannot Save the Critical Text
The usual replies to the preservation argument either redefine preservation, reduce the rule of faith to a doctrinal core, or make scholarly probability supreme. None supplies a present and identifiable Word able to judge the church.
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Could “Who” Begin with Faded Ink?
A fading theta can become an omicron to the eye. That supplies a credible route from θεός to ὅς—but the hypothesis must not be exaggerated into a claim about every surviving witness.
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Historical Report Is Not Biblical Judgment: Identity, Development, Revision, and Rejection
Historical findings and theological verdicts answer different questions; controlled relationship labels keep them ordered and explicit.
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One God, Three Distinct Persons
Calamy identifies the real personal distinctions revealed in Scripture without dividing the divine essence or pretending to explain the hidden manner of triune subsistence.
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No Truthful God, No Saving Gospel
The gospel comes as divine testimony and promise. A doctrine which makes God capable of false speech removes the ground of forgiveness, resurrection, eternal life, and assurance.
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Old Is Not Original: Antiquity, Attrition, and the Appeal to Age
An older manuscript may be historically valuable, but it is not thereby a more authentic manuscript. Date is chronology, not a divine or genealogical verdict.
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The Fathers Who Said Θεός: Chrysostom, Theodoret, and the Witness the Apparatus Cannot Count
Chrysostom and Theodoret do more than affirm the deity of Christ. Both cite 1 Timothy 3:16 as “God was manifest in the flesh” and expound the clause as apostolic Scripture. Their evidence must be weighed carefully, but it cannot be erased by…
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Why “Gnosticism” Must Remain Plural
The movements commonly grouped under Gnosticism did not confess one creed. A defensible textual indictment must name the teacher, the system, and the exact proposition before judging a reading.
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The Woman They Put in Brackets: John 7:53–8:11 and the Canonical Cost
The story is known even by people who cannot place it in John. A woman is brought into the temple. Her accusers say she was taken in adultery. They ask whether the law of Moses requires her to be stoned, and they…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 4: The Borrowed Bible and the God Who Kept His Word
The critical-text position borrows the authority of a Bible whose public identity it cannot ground. Christ's promise requires an available and identifiable written Word; the confessional doctrine of preservation supplies it.
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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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