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R. L. Dabney’s 1871 Indictment of the Critical Canons
Dabney argued that nineteenth-century critics did not merely disagree over facts; they worked with rival codes whose rules could reverse one another and lacked a common umpire.
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Corrected, Then Repeated: An Ordained Minister’s Duty to Repent Publicly
Steele was publicly told in 2025 that the men he described did not regard the KJV as inerrant. In 2026 he sharpened the accusation without engaging TBS’s formal original-language standard. The Ninth Commandment now requires a public correction.
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Why God Committed His Word
God spoke before Scripture was complete. He addressed Adam, covenanted with Noah and Abraham, appeared to the patriarchs, and made his will known through dreams, visions, angels, prophets, mighty acts, and his own voice from heaven. The church therefore did not begin…
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When Words Change Their Meaning: Semantic Shift and False Continuity
Shared vocabulary can hide changed concepts; historical term ledgers expose semantic shift before continuity is claimed.
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The Moving Critical Text and the Demand for Certainty
Critical editions are designed to change as methods and evidence change. The issue is not whether scholarship may correct mistakes, but whether an indefinitely reconstructed text can serve as the confession’s authentic final appeal.
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An Atheistic Argument and an Inconsistent Christian
A doctrine may deny the God of Scripture in its necessary consequence while its advocate sincerely professes Christian faith. The contradiction must be described without concealment or slander.
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The Pejorative Default: How “KJV-Only” Smuggles in English Inspiration
Critics often admit that Confessional Bibliology denies English inspiration, then restore that association through the KJV-Only label. Similarity, functional equivalence, and doctrinal identity require different kinds of proof.
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“Take Heed Unto Thyself, and Unto the Doctrine”: Public Error, Public Repentance, and the Judgment of Christ
Church officers will answer to Christ for what they teach, what they refuse to correct, and what they knowingly leave undefended; public error therefore requires proportionate public repentance.
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Trying to Destroy the Old Foundation
Variants, printed-edition differences, older manuscripts, and fallible ecclesiastical judgments deserve examination. None by itself disproves an authentic text kept pure in all ages, and none establishes the authority of a reconstructed replacement.
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Presuppositional Analysis: The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
The Canon of the Holy Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Louis Gaussen’s The Canon of the Holy Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Gaussen joins a historical defence…
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Book Review: The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
The Canon of the Holy Scriptures Bibliographical Notice Louis Gaussen, The Canon of the Holy Scriptures from the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith, 3rd ed. (London: James Nisbet, 1863). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Louis Gaussen’s…
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The Comma Wager: What the Evidence Proves—and What It Does Not
The familiar story that Erasmus made a wager about the Comma Johanneum is commonly repeated as settled history. The actual question is narrower: what did Erasmus say, what did the manuscript evidence establish, and what does neither prove?
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