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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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Begotten, Not Made
Arius could call Christ begotten while treating that begetting as creaturely production. Nicaea’s ‘not made’ guarded the scriptural boundary between the natural Son and every work made through him.
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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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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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Which Text Did the Reformed Confessions Identify as Authentic?
The confessions name no printer, but they do not point to an unknown future reconstruction. They identify the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures actually received, used, translated, and appealed to by the Reformed churches.
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 1: What Is Being Charged?
The charge is not that every user of a critical edition is personally an atheist. It is that a theory which makes a revisable scholarly reconstruction the final court of textual authority adopts an atheistic epistemology at that point.
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Of the Holy Scripture III: Self-Attestation, Sufficiency, and Clarity
Westminster Confession 1.5–1.7 teaches that Scripture manifests itself as God's Word, contains the whole counsel necessary for faith and life, and is clear in all things necessary to salvation. This article tests those claims without reducing self-attestation to private feeling or sufficiency…
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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact, and textual identity.
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Inspiration and Preservation: Distinct Acts, Inseparable Ends
Inspiration produced the God-breathed Scriptures; preservation conserves that inspired text through history. The acts differ in mode and instruments while serving one divine purpose: an abiding written rule for the church.
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They Removed It from Their Copies: Augustine, the Woman Taken in Adultery, and the Witnesses That Cannot Be Counted
Augustine’s testimony concerning John 7:53–8:11 does not settle every question of transmission by itself. It does establish that a leading Father received the passage as Scripture, knew of copies without it, and reported a moral motive for its removal—evidence that a surviving-manuscript…
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Kept Pure in All Ages: WCF 1.8 and Its Historical Referent
The preservation clause in WCF 1.8 must be read with its stated consequence: an authentic Hebrew and Greek text to which the church may finally appeal.
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The Translator Is Not a Prophet
Faithful translation is a ministerial work under inspired Scripture. It can truly communicate God’s Word without repeating inspiration, creating new revelation, or placing the translator above his source.
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