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Why God Committed His Word
God spoke before Scripture was complete. He addressed Adam, covenanted with Noah and Abraham, appeared to the patriarchs, and made his will known through dreams, visions, angels, prophets, mighty acts, and his own voice from heaven. The church therefore did not begin…
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Francis Turretin on the Heavenly Witnesses, Part I: Canonical Authority
A new English rendering of the first seven theses of Turretin's 1674 disputation on 1 John 5:7.
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When Words Change Their Meaning: Semantic Shift and False Continuity
Shared vocabulary can hide changed concepts; historical term ledgers expose semantic shift before continuity is claimed.
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The Moving Critical Text and the Demand for Certainty
Critical editions are designed to change as methods and evidence change. The issue is not whether scholarship may correct mistakes, but whether an indefinitely reconstructed text can serve as the confession’s authentic final appeal.
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The Deity of the Holy Ghost
From baptism, divine names and attributes, creation, sanctification, and worship, Calamy argues that the Holy Ghost is a divine person equal with the Father and the Son.
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The Text Is Not the Artifact
God promised to preserve His Word, not to keep every individual copy that ever bore it from perishing. Confusing the manuscript with the text creates the first and most basic error in modern textual argument.
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The Mark Irenaeus Knew: Mark 16:9–20 and the Second-Century Church
Irenaeus does not merely allude to Christ’s ascension. He expressly says that Mark, near the conclusion of his Gospel, wrote Mark 16:19. This second-century witness does not answer every question about the ending of Mark, but it makes a theory of late…
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The Pejorative Default: How “KJV-Only” Smuggles in English Inspiration
Critics often admit that Confessional Bibliology denies English inspiration, then restore that association through the KJV-Only label. Similarity, functional equivalence, and doctrinal identity require different kinds of proof.
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“Take Heed Unto Thyself, and Unto the Doctrine”: Public Error, Public Repentance, and the Judgment of Christ
Church officers will answer to Christ for what they teach, what they refuse to correct, and what they knowingly leave undefended; public error therefore requires proportionate public repentance.
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Trying to Destroy the Old Foundation
Variants, printed-edition differences, older manuscripts, and fallible ecclesiastical judgments deserve examination. None by itself disproves an authentic text kept pure in all ages, and none establishes the authority of a reconstructed replacement.
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Begotten, Not Made
Arius could call Christ begotten while treating that begetting as creaturely production. Nicaea’s ‘not made’ guarded the scriptural boundary between the natural Son and every work made through him.
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"No Major Doctrine Is Affected": The Claim Before the Martin Rule
The most reassuring sentence in popular textual apologetics is also among the least examined. After acknowledging hundreds of differences between the Authorized Version and modern translations, Wesley Huff says that the changes affect “no major doctrine.” He names the deity of Christ,…
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