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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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Mill, Berriman, and the Vanishing Line
In 1707 John Mill changed his first judgment after closer inspection. In 1741 Henry Berriman used magnification and sunlight and reported part of the older stroke. These are the central early observations.
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Three Translation Supremacies, One Inversion
Latin-over-originals, English-over-originals, and Greek-translation-over-Hebrew differ greatly in history and evidence. They become the same formal error when a dependent version is made judge of its source.
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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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“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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Begotten, Not Made
Arius could call Christ begotten while treating that begetting as creaturely production. Nicaea’s ‘not made’ guarded the scriptural boundary between the natural Son and every work made through him.
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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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Book Review: The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
The Canon of the Holy Scriptures Bibliographical Notice Louis Gaussen, The Canon of the Holy Scriptures from the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith, 3rd ed. (London: James Nisbet, 1863). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict Louis Gaussen’s…
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