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The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without making critical reconstruction its higher court.
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Evidence Is Not the Instrument: Manuscripts, Editions, and the Rule of Faith
Manuscripts and critical apparatuses are indispensable witnesses, but the rule of faith is the divine text to which they witness. Confusing evidence with Scripture reverses their proper authority.
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The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist
A question at the end of the Riddle-White debate exposed the prior problem modern textual criticism cannot evade: by what ultimate standard are manuscripts, canons, and critics themselves judged?
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Translations Are Recipients, Not Sources
The Authorized Version receives inspiration and infallibility derivatively, while preservation belongs to the authentic Hebrew and Greek texts.
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Preserved Through the Manuscripts: James White, Lane Keister, and Generic Preservation
James White and Lane Keister explicitly affirm preservation through manuscripts. The question is whether that affirmation yields an identifiable, publicly possessed, authentic text—or only surviving materials for reconstruction.
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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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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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Heresy Is Not a Pejorative: Why the Church Needs Exact Words
This opening article explains why the church must use the words heresy and heretic carefully, precisely, and only according to Scripture and the Reformed tradition.
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Please Do Not Let Mark Ward Direct the Bible
Christopher Nolan wanted an Odyssey that felt accessible, modern, and relatable. The result shows why accessibility cannot govern Bible translation: update an old work for the audience long enough, and the audience eventually receives a new work.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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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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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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