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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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What Fruit Does the Critical Method Bear?
Bahnsen's third test asks where an argument leads. Applied to modern textual criticism, it reveals a provisional Bible, probabilistic knowledge, transferred authority, and duties that the method cannot finally ground.
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Preservation, Canonization, and Recognition: Three Questions That Must Not Be Confused
Which books are Scripture, what words constitute those books, and how the church recognizes both are related but distinct questions. God creates the canon and text; the church receives them through ministerial means.
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Scripture Cannot Say Yea and Nay
The truthfulness and unity of Scripture are not an excuse to deny variant copies; they are a theological constraint on how the church identifies the canonical text.
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Three Translation Supremacies, One Inversion
Latin-over-originals, English-over-originals, and Greek-translation-over-Hebrew differ greatly in history and evidence. They become the same formal error when a dependent version is made judge of its source.
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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 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 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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