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The Canon Question: Can We Know Which Books Are God’s Word?
Before Scripture can serve as the Church’s rule, the canonical books must be identifiable. The canon question therefore lies beneath every appeal to the written Word of God.
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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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What the Trinitarian Bible Society Actually Says
TBS’s governing statement does not make the KJV its final authority. It expressly denies definitive status to every translation and places final appeal in the traditional Hebrew and Greek texts. Any charge of KJV supremacy must begin by confronting that formal doctrine.
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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm possessed by the church.
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Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the preferred reading changes.
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What the Church Means by the Canon
The canon is not merely a list of favored books. It is the complete collection God gave as the Church’s permanent rule: divinely constituted, covenantally delivered, providentially preserved, and ecclesiastically received.
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The Inerrancy of the Autographa: What Bahnsen Rightly Affirmed
Before criticizing Bahnsen’s textual locus, a fair account must recognize his strong defense of divine authorship, verbal and plenary inspiration, complete truthfulness, and the real authority of faithful copies.
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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and textual authority cannot be treated as interchangeable.
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The Question Beneath Every Appeal to Scripture
Every appeal to biblical authority assumes that the Church can identify the writings called Scripture. The doctrine of the canon asks which books are God’s Word and how they can be received with divine certainty.
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The Impossibility of Apologetics with the Critical Text: An Introduction
In the discipline of Christian apologetics, the authority and stability of Scripture are paramount. Apologetics requires a foundation that is both theologically sound and unchanging—one that communicates truth without ambiguity or alteration. The purpose of this article is to…
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Scripture Is Sufficient, but It Is Not an Encyclopedia: The Whole Counsel of God for Faith and Life
Scripture contains the whole counsel of God necessary for his glory, salvation, faith, and life without pretending to answer every possible question about creation or human skill.
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 3
Questioning the “Original Text”: A Presuppositional Critique of Richard Simon’s Manuscript Analyses ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction Few debates in church history have been as pivotal as those concerning the purity and…
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