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What the Trinitarian Bible Society Actually Says
TBS’s governing statement does not make the KJV its final authority. It expressly denies definitive status to every translation and places final appeal in the traditional Hebrew and Greek texts. Any charge of KJV supremacy must begin by confronting that formal doctrine.
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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm possessed by the church.
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Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the preferred reading changes.
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What the Church Means by the Canon
The canon is not merely a list of favored books. It is the complete collection God gave as the Church’s permanent rule: divinely constituted, covenantally delivered, providentially preserved, and ecclesiastically received.
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The Inerrancy of the Autographa: What Bahnsen Rightly Affirmed
Before criticizing Bahnsen’s textual locus, a fair account must recognize his strong defense of divine authorship, verbal and plenary inspiration, complete truthfulness, and the real authority of faithful copies.
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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and textual authority cannot be treated as interchangeable.
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Who Is the Court? Ministerial and Magisterial Textual Criticism
The real divide is not between people who compare manuscripts and people who refuse to do so. It is between textual work that serves Scripture and textual work that functions as the court which constitutes Scripture.
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Circularity, Ultimate Authority, and the Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
James White calls Confessional Bibliology viciously circular. The proper answer distinguishes unavoidable ultimate-authority reasoning from arbitrary question-begging and restores evidence to its ministerial place.
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Book Review: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? Bibliographical Notice James R. White, The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict James R. White’s The…
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Mark 16: Printed, Bracketed, or Rejected?
Modern critical editions usually print Mark 16:9–20, but their double brackets identify it as an early addition rather than the earliest text. TBS should describe that fact accurately; Steele should not use physical presence on the page to conceal the editors’ judgment…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question James R. White’s The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual…
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