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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 5: Four Escapes That Cannot Save the Critical Text
The usual replies to the preservation argument either redefine preservation, reduce the rule of faith to a doctrinal core, or make scholarly probability supreme. None supplies a present and identifiable Word able to judge the church.
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Providence Plus Textual Science: The Restoration Principle
Bahnsen’s assurance rests on providence together with textual criticism, while his rule that an imperfect text should yield to a superior one makes present textual identity reconstructionist in structure.
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Richard Simon and the Use of Textual Uncertainty Against Sola Scriptura
Richard Simon is a key historical case because he used textual uncertainty to weaken the Protestant rule of faith while retaining Christian language.
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No Truthful God, No Saving Gospel
The gospel comes as divine testimony and promise. A doctrine which makes God capable of false speech removes the ground of forgiveness, resurrection, eternal life, and assurance.
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Presuppositional Analysis: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. The relevant Goold-volume treatises are “Of the Divine Original…
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 4: The Borrowed Bible and the God Who Kept His Word
The critical-text position borrows the authority of a Bible whose public identity it cannot ground. Christ's promise requires an available and identifiable written Word; the confessional doctrine of preservation supplies it.
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‘God Has Not Promised Perfect Transmission’: From Kept Pure to Essential Purity
Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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When an Error About Preservation Becomes Heresy
This article marks the threshold between a mistaken view of preservation and a doctrinal system that destroys the church’s possession of Scripture.
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The Manuscript That Survived: Why Extant-Witness Supremacy Is a Non Sequitur
A surviving manuscript can be evidence of a reading. Its survival cannot, by itself, prove that the reading is superior to the Received Text. The missing premise is exactly what the argument needs to establish.
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The God Gregory of Nyssa Read: 1 Timothy 3:16 and the Greek Church Before the Critical Text
Gregory of Nyssa did not merely teach Christ’s deity in general terms. In his controversy with Eunomius, he introduced 1 Timothy 3:16 as Paul’s plain declaration that “God was manifest in the flesh.” His testimony does not eliminate every textual question, but…
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