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Of the Holy Scripture IV: Original Languages, Preservation, Interpretation, and Final Appeal
The final paragraphs of Westminster Confession 1 ask whether the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures have been kept pure, whether they remain the church's authentic court of appeal, how translations serve the people of God, and how Scripture interprets Scripture. This article…
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Did Bahnsen Hold the Historic Reformed Doctrine of Inspiration?
Bahnsen’s doctrine was substantially Reformed at the point of Scripture’s divine production, but modern and Warfieldian at transmission, textual identity, and the continuing locus of the inspired Word.
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The Real Choice: Confessional Reception or Scholarly Reconstruction
The dispute is not finally about Erasmus, manuscript counts, or loyalty to one English Bible. It is whether the church receives a text kept by God or awaits a text continually constituted by reconstruction.
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What Fruit Does the Critical Method Bear?
Bahnsen's third test asks where an argument leads. Applied to modern textual criticism, it reveals a provisional Bible, probabilistic knowledge, transferred authority, and duties that the method cannot finally ground.
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Preservation, Canonization, and Recognition: Three Questions That Must Not Be Confused
Which books are Scripture, what words constitute those books, and how the church recognizes both are related but distinct questions. God creates the canon and text; the church receives them through ministerial means.
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Corrected, Then Repeated: An Ordained Minister’s Duty to Repent Publicly
Steele was publicly told in 2025 that the men he described did not regard the KJV as inerrant. In 2026 he sharpened the accusation without engaging TBS’s formal original-language standard. The Ninth Commandment now requires a public correction.
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Calvin, Whitaker, and Turretin: Error, Obstinacy, and the Foundations of Faith
Calvin, Whitaker, and Turretin confirm that the church must distinguish lesser errors from formal heresy while still defending foundational truths.
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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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Francis Turretin on the Heavenly Witnesses, Part I: Canonical Authority
A new English rendering of the first seven theses of Turretin's 1674 disputation on 1 John 5:7.
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When Words Change Their Meaning: Semantic Shift and False Continuity
Shared vocabulary can hide changed concepts; historical term ledgers expose semantic shift before continuity is claimed.
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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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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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