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Presuppositional Analysis: A Disputation on Holy Scripture
A Disputation on Holy Scripture: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question William Whitaker’s A Disputation on Holy Scripture rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Whitaker’s Reformation polemic replies to Roman claims…
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical claim that the original Hebrew and Greek texts were kept pure, are authentical, and…
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The Autograph Nobody Has
The absence of the physical autographs does not prove that the church lacks the authentic text; it raises the question whether the final rule is an extant Word or a probability about a lost document.
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Scripture for the Church
God committed his Word to writing for his church. The act of inscripturation examined in the previous article was not an end in itself, as though God intended merely to produce a sacred artifact. He gave Scripture to preserve and spread the…
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God, That Cannot Lie
Divine truthfulness is not a habit God might suspend. Scripture identifies the living God as the one who cannot lie, cannot deny himself, and performs every promise he makes.
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The Line That Vanished
The Line That Vanished Nomina Sacra and 1 Timothy 3:16 Research dossier and ten-part article series Prepared for Confessional Bibliology 23 July 2026 Editorial thesis The famous dispute at 1 Timothy 3:16 is not chiefly about Codex Vaticanus or Codex Sinaiticus. Vaticanus…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Bahnsen’s philosophical dissertation analyzes self-deception, not…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 2: The Lost Autograph Cannot Rule the Church
A Bible located only in vanished autographs cannot function as the church's present rule. The question is not whether God inspired the first inscription, but whether He preserved His words in a form His people can identify and obey.
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Of the Holy Scripture IV: Original Languages, Preservation, Interpretation, and Final Appeal
The final paragraphs of Westminster Confession 1 ask whether the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures have been kept pure, whether they remain the church's authentic court of appeal, how translations serve the people of God, and how Scripture interprets Scripture. This article…
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Did Bahnsen Hold the Historic Reformed Doctrine of Inspiration?
Bahnsen’s doctrine was substantially Reformed at the point of Scripture’s divine production, but modern and Warfieldian at transmission, textual identity, and the continuing locus of the inspired Word.
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The Real Choice: Confessional Reception or Scholarly Reconstruction
The dispute is not finally about Erasmus, manuscript counts, or loyalty to one English Bible. It is whether the church receives a text kept by God or awaits a text continually constituted by reconstruction.
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Inspiration, Canonicity, Authority, and Preservation
Inspiration, canonicity, authority, and preservation belong together, but they do not answer the same question. Keeping their order prevents confusion about the books God gave and the words he keeps before his Church.
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