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One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile of that particular book must be established.
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From Simon to Restorationism: When Scripture Is Treated Like Every Other Ancient Book
This article examines the shift from ministerial textual comparison to a magisterial restorationism that treats Scripture like ordinary literature.
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Naturalism in Theological Dress
Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
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When Surviving Witnesses Contradict One Another
Surviving manuscripts do not speak with one voice. A rule that makes mere survival authoritative collapses the moment two extant witnesses give incompatible readings.
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Cyprian’s Three: What the Third-Century Bishop Does—and Does Not—Witness to in 1 John 5:7
Cyprian’s appeal to ‘the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost’ followed by ‘these three are one’ is neither a complete third-century transcription of the Comma nor a datum that may be waved away. It is early, specific, and…
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The Demiurge and the Good Creator
The lower-creator systems did not merely distinguish God from creation. They placed the visible world under a maker other than the supreme Father and divided Christ from the God of the prophets.
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The Back-Translation Charge: Evidence, Not Enumeration
A claim that Erasmus invented Greek from Latin must identify the Greek form, Latin source, edition, and later transmission. Counting “five” or “six” verses without that work is rhetoric, not a demonstrated textual history.
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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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The CBGM and the Claim of the ‘Best Manuscripts’
The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method greatly strengthens the study of textual relationships, yet its local orientations remain editorial judgments and its output does not supply a theology of authority.
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Providence Plus Textual Science: The Restoration Principle
Bahnsen’s assurance rests on providence together with textual criticism, while his rule that an imperfect text should yield to a superior one makes present textual identity reconstructionist in structure.
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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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