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Which Texts Are Authentical? The Hebrew and Greek Texts Confessional Bibliology Affirms—and Why
Confessional Bibliology receives the Ben Chayyim–Bomberg Masoretic Hebrew text, including its received vowel points, and the Greek Textus Receptus as the providentially preserved, authentical text of Scripture.
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Has God Preserved His Word—or Merely Its Raw Materials?
The survival of thousands of variant-bearing manuscripts is providentially important, but the existence of evidence is not yet the confession that an authentic text was kept pure and remains available for final appeal.
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The Testament Is Not Perpetually Under Probate: Kept Pure for the Heirs
God did not leave his church an estate file from which experts must perpetually reconstruct a will. He kept the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the authentic rule of faith for his heirs.
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The House upon the Sure Foundation
The Church did not give the Word of God its authority, and textual critics do not give it identity. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures, with Christ as the chief cornerstone, are the antecedent and authentic foundation upon which the Church is built.
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The Text in Question: Calamy''s First Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Edmund Calamy frames the inquiry into 1 John 5:7, distinguishes the doctrine of the Trinity from the status of one clause, and states his initial concessions.
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Confessional Bible Society—Launching January 1, 2027
The permanent prelaunch page for the Society's mission, four permanent works, institutional limits, January 1 launch, and founding announcement list.
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The Historical-Meaning Rule: Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak
Past writers must be interpreted in the sense their words bore in their own time before continuity, development, correction, or contradiction is claimed.
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Honour the Son Even as the Father
John 5:23 requires the same kind of divine honour for the Son as for the Father, while Christ’s mediatorial humility explains rather than negates his equality.
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Matthew 5:18 and the Written Form of Scripture
Matthew 5:18 principally declares the law’s abiding authority and fulfillment, but Christ makes that declaration through the smallest written features. Doctrine and written form must be held together.
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Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Meaning Before Modern Use
Historical interpretation begins by recovering what an older source meant before using it in a modern argument.
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What “Authentical” Means
In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of appeal.
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The Codex Was Alexandrinus
The remembered nineteenth-century testimony was real, but it concerned Codex Alexandrinus—not Vaticanus, and not principally Sinaiticus. Getting the manuscript right changes the whole inquiry.
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