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The Historical-Meaning Rule: Past Writers Must Be Allowed to Speak
Past writers must be interpreted in the sense their words bore in their own time before continuity, development, correction, or contradiction is claimed.
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The Wheels on the Bus, the Plane, and the End of the Argument
A premise has consequences whether its advocate welcomes them or not. The opening article distinguishes professed intention from the fixed destination of a sound argument.
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From Divine Revelation to Divine Judgment
Westminster Chapter 1 begins with God making himself known and ends with God rendering judgment. Its opening movement is, “It pleased the Lord … to reveal himself”; its closing declaration is that the church must rest in “the Holy Spirit speaking in…
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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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Book Review: A Textual History of the King James Bible
A Textual History of the King James Bible Bibliographical Notice David Norton, A Textual History of the King James Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005; copyright 2004). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict David Norton’s A Textual History of the King…
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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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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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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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Mark 16: Printed, Bracketed, or Rejected?
Modern critical editions usually print Mark 16:9–20, but their double brackets identify it as an early addition rather than the earliest text. TBS should describe that fact accurately; Steele should not use physical presence on the page to conceal the editors’ judgment…
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Hoisting the Church
The critical text can replace the received text only if the Church transfers to a reconstructed product the old foundation’s titles: inspired, preserved, authentic, self-attesting, and final. That transfer requires a warrant the reconstructive method cannot supply.
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“Undue Silence in a Just Cause”: When “Intramural” Becomes an Excuse
Calling the textual controversy intramural does not make it nonfoundational, and church polity does not excuse elders from publicly answering public error about the identity and preservation of Scripture.
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Book Review: The Received Text: A Field Guide
The Received Text: A Field Guide Bibliographical Notice Taylor DeSoto, The Received Text: A Field Guide (Kept Pure Press, 2024). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Taylor DeSoto’s The Received Text: A Field Guide must be judged according to its actual…
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