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Covenant or Testament? Berith, Diathēkē, and the Limits of the Legal Analogy
The Bible’s words for covenant and testament overlap without becoming interchangeable in every passage. Careful distinctions let the legal analogy serve theology rather than control it.
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The Death of the Testator and the Blood of the Covenant
Hebrews 9 joins covenant, testament, sacrifice, death, and inheritance in Christ without severing testamentary force from Sinai’s blood.
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The Same Words, Another Doctrine: Lane Keister, Equivocation, and the Ninth Commandment
Shows that Lane Keister’s claim of precise agreement on preservation depends upon giving the historic term a different aggregate and reconstructive meaning, then applies the Ninth Commandment to the resulting public equivocation without alleging knowledge of his heart.
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Infallibility Is Not the Weaker Word: Two Terms and Two Doctrinal Histories
Infallibility and inerrancy are now often treated as synonyms, while infallibility is also recast as a weaker promise that Scripture succeeds only in religious matters. The history is more exacting: Warfield did not coin inerrancy or cease using infallibility, but he did…
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Which Will Governs? Competing Wills, Codicils, Drafts, and Electronic Documents
Probate law does not treat every testamentary-looking document as one more valid form of the will. It asks about capacity, execution, intent, revocation, and the governing instrument.
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The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved in the authentic Hebrew and Greek Scriptures for the church’s present use.
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When the Original Cannot Be Produced: Lost Wills, Copies, and Proof of the Text
The disappearance of an autograph does not entail the loss of its words. Probate law distinguishes a missing instrument from proof of its precise terms; Scripture distinguishes perishable artifacts from the enduring text.
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Why Confessional Bibliology Confesses Infallibility, Not Inerrancy
Confessional Bibliology will use infallibility for its positive confession of Holy Scripture. This is not permission for error. It is a deliberate commitment to the present, preserved, authentic Hebrew and Greek rule—and a refusal to let an autographic formula govern confessional language.
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The Label Is Not an Argument
Calling Confessional Bibliology “KJV-only,” “TR-only,” or “Ruckmanite” does not answer its doctrine of preservation. When a loaded label is made to carry the argument, it becomes an act of intellectual cowardice and, among Christians, a sin against truth.
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Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak: Historical Meaning in Doctrinal Debate
The Safeguard 19 method-and-case series for establishing what older writers and confessions meant before comparing, developing, or judging their claims.
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How Confessional Bibliology Conducts a Presuppositional Analysis
A presuppositional analysis asks what a book must assume about authority, knowledge, text, history, providence, and judgment—and whether those assumptions can sustain its conclusions.
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in principle?
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