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“Through the Manuscripts”: Does an Aggregate of Competing Readings Constitute a Preserved Text?
An aggregate of mutually exclusive readings is evidence about a text, not itself the preserved and authentic text confessed by the church.
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No Doctrine Hangs on a Variant: The Retreat from Verbal Preservation to Doctrinal Survival
The survival of essential doctrine is a mercy, but it cannot identify the inspired wording of a disputed passage or replace verbal preservation.
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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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The Reformed Orthodox on Present Textual Purity
Surveys Reformed orthodox teaching on the present authenticity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures while acknowledging ordinary transmissional variation.
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From Owen to Warfield: When Preservation Became Restoration
Traces the shift from John Owen’s doctrine of a presently possessed authentic text to B. B. Warfield’s account of autographic inerrancy and critical restoration.
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“Textual Criticism Has No Explicit Biblical Guidelines”: The Admission That Controls the System
Analyzes the methodological consequence of admitting that textual criticism has no explicit biblical guidelines for ordering its probabilistic canons.
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All New Testament Editions Are Eclectic: A Misleading Equivalence
Distinguishes correcting an inherited textual base from reconstructing a text from an aggregate and explains why calling every edition eclectic obscures that difference.
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From “Erasmus’s Handful” to the Church’s Text: What the Small-Base Argument Leaves Out
Places Erasmus’s early printed editions within the broader manuscript, liturgical, editorial, and ecclesiastical inheritance behind the Received Text tradition.
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Matthew 5:18 Reconsidered: The Law’s Continuity and the Text’s Continuity
Matthew 5:18 primarily promises the law’s enduring authority, yet that authority necessarily entails the continuity of its identifiable written words.
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Welcome to the Revolution
A Welcome to Everyone Who is New There are many of you who are new to this issue or having heard someone expound the Confessional view in the Reformed Pub, you realized that it has nothing to do with what is commonly…
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The Preservation of the Canon
QUESTIQN 7 Will any canonical book ever have disappeared? Negative. I. In order more readily to discuss the various questions that are raised concerning the canon, a distinction must first be established. This word is used both broadly and narrowly. In the…
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A Short Response to James White
Faulty Facts and Assumptions On Thursday, June 9th, James White posted in the Reformed Pub about the Comma Johanneum. Like most of Mr. White's previous interactions with those of us that hold to the Confessional view of Scripture, Mr. White failed to…
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