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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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The Text Is Not the Artifact
God promised to preserve His Word, not to keep every individual copy that ever bore it from perishing. Confusing the manuscript with the text creates the first and most basic error in modern textual argument.
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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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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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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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The Presuppositional Exception
Modern defenders of the critical text confess Scripture as their ultimate authority everywhere except at the point where the words of Scripture are identified. That exception exposes the method's deepest inconsistency.
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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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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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