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This Is Not an Intramural Sports Day. This Is a Battle to the Death.
The identity and authority of Holy Scripture are not sidelines in the life of the church. Treating their destruction as a harmless intramural disagreement is not charity. It is a refusal to guard the foundation.
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The Book We Are Answering: Edition, Scope, and the Controlling Question
A fair answer to James White must identify the editions, grant his sound case against English re-inspiration, and isolate the question his book has not settled: whether the church possesses an authentic Hebrew and Greek text.
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The Word of Our God Shall Stand for Ever
The doctrine of Scripture begins with God.
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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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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: The Doctrine Before the Controversy
Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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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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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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“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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A Necessary Concession: Why Ruckmanism Is Not Confessional Bibliology
The Authorized Version was not inspired afresh and may not correct Hebrew or Greek. Granting White that point clears away Ruckmanism while leaving the confessional doctrine of original-language preservation untouched.
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A Claim Cannot Disown What It Entails
Necessary consequences belong to a claim even when its advocate has never intended or welcomed them. Careful argument separates entailment from tendency, association, and rhetoric.
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