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Ruckmanism vs. Reformed Theology: Analyzing the Authority and Inspiration of the King James Version Part 2
III. The Reformed View of Biblical Inspiration and Authority The Reformed tradition offers a biblically grounded and historically consistent view of the inspiration and authority of Scripture. Rooted in confessional standards such as the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) and the Second…
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God Speaks for Himself
Because Scripture is divine speech, its authority is intrinsic and self-attesting; church, evidence, and reason recognize that authority but do not create it.
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Every Word from God
The Bible is not merely a human record of encounters with God. It is not a collection of religious insights produced by spiritually gifted men. Neither is it a set of divine ideas clothed afterward in fallible human language.
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Preservation Pertains to the Inspired Text, Not to the Material Survival of the Autographs
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation Is Not Built on One Proof Text: The Canonical Witness
Preservation rests upon Scripture’s cumulative canonical witness to a determinate written deposit that endures, remains present speech, and governs the church.
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The Hidden-Providence Escape Hatch: Continuity When Convenient, Recovery When Necessary
Tests whether appeals to secret providential preservation can exempt isolated or newly recovered readings from the evidential weight of public continuity.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: What Westminster Confession 1.8 Actually Confesses
Westminster 1.8 confesses inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures kept pure in every age, therefore presently authentic and available for final appeal.
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“If God Wanted Certainty, He Would Have Preserved the Autographs”
Answers the counterfactual claim that textual certainty would have required God to preserve the physical autographs rather than their text in faithful apographs.
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Four Different Doctrines Hiding Under One Word: Survival, Recoverability, Identifiability, and Public Possession
Material survival, critical recoverability, textual identifiability, and public possession are four different claims; only careful distinction reveals what a doctrine of preservation actually supplies.
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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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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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