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Contradiction, Tension, Ambiguity, and Proof-Text Loss
Contradiction, tension, ambiguity, and proof-text loss are not interchangeable accusations. This article defines each category, fixes the threshold for a strict contradiction, and shows how logical coherence and confessional derivation must be judged on separate axes.
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Textual Reading, Translation, and Interpretation: Three Different Questions
A Greek or Hebrew reading, an English translation, and an interpretation of that wording are related but distinct objects. This article establishes the controls needed to determine whether a doctrine belongs to a critical edition, to a translator’s repair, or to a…
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Burden of Proof, Certainty Labels, and the Verdict Scale
Textual facts, historical inferences, translations, doctrinal consequences, and contradiction claims carry different burdens of proof. This article fixes the certainty labels and verdict rules that govern the reconstruction test.
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The Reproducible Research Protocol for This Series
The Westminster reconstruction experiment must be repeatable. This protocol fixes the corpus, evidence ledger, source hierarchy, comparison steps, objection standard, verdict rules, and edition-revision process for every later article.
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NA28: The Current Published Nestle-Aland Baseline
NA28 remains the current published Nestle-Aland edition, but it is neither the whole critical-text ecosystem nor the newest Greek main text in every New Testament book. This article defines exactly what NA28 controls in the reconstruction test.
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The Nineteen Governing Safeguards of Confessional Bibliology
The permanent public standard governing authority, evidence, context, categories, jurisdiction, correction, source stewardship, exact entailment, and historical meaning.
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Can the Received Text and Critical Text Both Be “Pure”?
Translations can faithfully communicate Scripture, but contradictory Hebrew or Greek readings cannot both be the one authentic wording at the same place.
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The Reformed Orthodox on Present Textual Purity
Surveys Reformed orthodox teaching on the present authenticity and purity of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures while acknowledging ordinary transmissional variation.
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From Owen to Warfield: When Preservation Became Restoration
Traces the shift from John Owen’s doctrine of a presently possessed authentic text to B. B. Warfield’s account of autographic inerrancy and critical restoration.
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All New Testament Editions Are Eclectic: A Misleading Equivalence
Distinguishes correcting an inherited textual base from reconstructing a text from an aggregate and explains why calling every edition eclectic obscures that difference.
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From “Erasmus’s Handful” to the Church’s Text: What the Small-Base Argument Leaves Out
Places Erasmus’s early printed editions within the broader manuscript, liturgical, editorial, and ecclesiastical inheritance behind the Received Text tradition.
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How Christian Polemics Must Be Conducted: Truth, Evidence, Proportion, and Correction
Sets the biblical and editorial rules for truthful evidence, proportionate judgment, fair response, visible correction, and proper ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
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