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How Do You Know? The Question That Decides Every Variant
The decisive question in every textual dispute is not merely what the manuscripts contain, but by what final authority the church identifies the Word of God.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: The Doctrine Before the Controversy
Before manuscripts, editions, and disputed readings are weighed, the doctrine must be stated from Scripture’s own claims, the church’s confession, and the purpose of God.
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The Canon Question: Can We Know Which Books Are God’s Word?
Before Scripture can serve as the Church’s rule, the canonical books must be identifiable. The canon question therefore lies beneath every appeal to the written Word of God.
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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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A Necessary Concession: Why Ruckmanism Is Not Confessional Bibliology
The Authorized Version was not inspired afresh and may not correct Hebrew or Greek. Granting White that point clears away Ruckmanism while leaving the confessional doctrine of original-language preservation untouched.
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A Claim Cannot Disown What It Entails
Necessary consequences belong to a claim even when its advocate has never intended or welcomed them. Careful argument separates entailment from tendency, association, and rhetoric.
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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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What Did God Promise to Preserve? Books, Words, and the Whole Counsel of God
Providential preservation concerns God’s inscripturated revelation in its canonical and verbal fullness—not merely surviving religious ideas, a sufficient doctrinal residue, or the continued existence of particular manuscripts.
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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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The Received Text: A Field Guide
Taylor DeSoto, The Received Text: A Field Guide (Kept Pure Press, 2024).
DeSoto offers a short, accessible guide to the Received Text debate. The book distinguishes text-base and translation questions, describes competing positions, introduces arguments for the TR, critiques labels, and defends continued use of the KJV without equating a translation with the original-language…
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Why I Preach from the Received Text
Jeffrey T. Riddle and Christian M. McShaffrey, eds., Why I Preach from the Received Text (The Greater Heritage, 2022).
This multi-author volume gathers pastors and scholars who argue for preaching from the Received or traditional ecclesiastical text. The essays range from doctrinal and apologetic arguments to pastoral testimony, historical reflection, and practical advice for churches. Its central theme is that the…
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