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The Manuscript That Survived: Why Extant-Witness Supremacy Is a Non Sequitur
A surviving manuscript can be evidence of a reading. Its survival cannot, by itself, prove that the reading is superior to the Received Text. The missing premise is exactly what the argument needs to establish.
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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The Whole Argument and the Question Being Answered
A quotation must be read within the author's purpose, opponent, alternatives, qualifications, and wider argument.
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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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Who Put John 5:4 into the Bible? What the Evidence Actually Proves
The question came to Wesley Huff from a Mormon missionary: Who took John 5:4 out of your Bible? Huff describes turning to the passage and finding verse 3 followed by verse 5. His answer reverses the accusation. The better question, he says,…
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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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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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Why God Committed His Word
God spoke before Scripture was complete. He addressed Adam, covenanted with Noah and Abraham, appeared to the patriarchs, and made his will known through dreams, visions, angels, prophets, mighty acts, and his own voice from heaven. The church therefore did not begin…
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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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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact, and textual identity.
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The Translator Is Not a Prophet
Faithful translation is a ministerial work under inspired Scripture. It can truly communicate God’s Word without repeating inspiration, creating new revelation, or placing the translator above his source.
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Of the Holy Scripture II: Necessity, Canon, and Authority
Westminster Confession 1.1–1.4 says more than that God once inspired writings. It confesses the necessity of written revelation, a defined canon, the exclusion of the Apocrypha, and an authority that rests on God rather than the church. This article tests the strongest…
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