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Arbitrariness: The Unproved Decisions Behind the Text
Modern textual criticism possesses evidence, learning, and elaborate tools. The prior question is whether its selection and weighting of that evidence escape mere opinion, relativism, unargued bias, and conjecture.
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Lane Keister, Matthew 5:18, and Exact Confessional Entailment
Lane Keister expressly affirms providential preservation and denies that Matthew 5:18 teaches it. Exact doctrinal judgment requires us to distinguish his profession, his exegesis, and the adequacy of his preservation model.
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The Arius We Are Testing
Before a biblical reading can be called Arian, Arianism must be reduced to exact historical propositions rather than used as a loose term for any weakening of a proof text.
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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What ‘Kept Pure in All Ages’ Actually Confesses
The original grammar, proof texts, polemical setting, and final-appeal clause of WCF 1.8 identify a preserved Hebrew and Greek text—not merely surviving doctrine or scattered textual possibilities.
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Manuscripts, Versions, and the Fathers: Calamy''s Second Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy answers the case from Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic silence, then weighs the Latin and African witnesses available to him.
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"The Only Consistency Is the KJV": Steele’s Accusation Stated Fairly
Stephen Steele’s case against the Trinitarian Bible Society is more substantial than a single slogan. This opening article states his argument at its strongest, identifies what he has genuinely shown, and fixes the further proof required by his charge that the KJV—not…
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Mark 3:32 — “Thy Brethren and Thy Sisters”: Does the Reference to the Sisters Belong?
Some witnesses tell Jesus that his mother, brothers, and sisters are outside. The received text mentions only his mother and brothers, agreeing with the family’s arrival and Jesus’ reply.
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The Mystery of God, the Father, and Christ
Calamy answers objections drawn from Christ’s incarnate limitations by distinguishing his two natures and showing why revealed mystery supports full assurance rather than uncertainty.
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Not Every Historical Text Is the Same: Author, Confession, Church Act, Translation, and Public Standard
Historical meaning depends partly on document type: an individual treatise, adopted confession, church act, translation, and public standard do not speak in the same way.
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What Scripture Calls Heresy
This article distinguishes the biblical passages on sects, heresies, admonition, and damnable heresies so the church does not confuse them.
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The Light of Nature
Westminster begins its doctrine of Holy Scripture by denying two opposite errors. The first says fallen humanity lacks a clear revelation of God and therefore possesses a reasonable excuse for unbelief. The second says the revelation given in nature is sufficient, if…
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