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Book Review: Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration
Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration Bibliographical Notice Louis Gaussen, Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine Origin and Inspiration, new rev. ed. (Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1859). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Louis Gaussen’s Theopneustia: The Bible, Its Divine…
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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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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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Old Is Not Original: Antiquity, Attrition, and the Appeal to Age
An older manuscript may be historically valuable, but it is not thereby a more authentic manuscript. Date is chronology, not a divine or genealogical verdict.
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Why “Gnosticism” Must Remain Plural
The movements commonly grouped under Gnosticism did not confess one creed. A defensible textual indictment must name the teacher, the system, and the exact proposition before judging a reading.
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Book Review: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures Bibliographical Notice John Owen, “Treatises Concerning the Scriptures,” in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (supplied Goold edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures must be…
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Presuppositional Analysis: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. The relevant Goold-volume treatises are “Of the Divine Original…
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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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The God Gregory of Nyssa Read: 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Greek Church Before the Critical Text
Gregory of Nyssa did not merely teach Christ’s deity in general terms. In his controversy with Eunomius, he introduced 1 Timothy 3:16 as Paul’s plain declaration that “God was manifest in the flesh.” His testimony does not eliminate every textual question, but…
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