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Objections to Confessional Bibliology - 6
Archetype vs. Providential Preservation: Does Older Evidence Undermine a Single Confessional Textual Line? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction A central tenet of confessional bibliology is the belief that God has providentially…
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Presuppositional Analysis - Why I Preach from the Received Text
Presuppositional Analysis of Why I Preach from the Received Text: An Anthology of Essays by Reformed Ministers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction to the Presuppositional Method God’s Self-Attesting Revelation This anthology…
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Presuppositional Analysis - The Received Text: A Field Guide
1\. Introduction to the Presuppositional Method A presuppositional analysis looks beneath an author’s explicit claims to evaluate the foundational beliefs or assumptions that guide his thinking. It asks: “Where does the author ground his epistemology i.e., theory of knowledge …
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Matthew 5:27 — “Said by Them of Old Time”: The Fuller Introduction to the Seventh Commandment
The phrase by them of old time is missing from the modern critical text and from the reconstructed Byzantine majority text. The Textus Receptus stands here as a minority Greek reading, though it has early…
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Matthew 8:8–10 — Servant or Child? Authority and Faith in the Centurion’s Confession
Three details surround the centurion’s confession. The Greek noun παῖς can mean servant or child.
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Matthew 3:11–12 — Baptism, Fire, and “His Garner”: Small Variants in John’s Warning
John’s warning contains several small variations rather than one missing sentence. Copies shift the order of “baptize you,” some omit “and fire,” an early papyrus gives a Mark-like form, and the possessive…
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The Text the Church Possesses: Preservation, Recognition, and the Confessional Text
The church publicly possesses the preserved Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received textual traditions while judging particular witnesses ministerially and honestly.
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“Which TR?” and “Which Critical Text?”: Applying the Same Standard to Both
Applies the demand for a precisely identified text to both Received Text and critical-text positions, including Keister’s Sturzian approach.
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When the Critic Becomes the Judge: What Is Magisterial Textual Criticism?
Magisterial textual criticism is defined not by the tools it uses but by the judicial office assigned to critical reconstruction over the church's text.
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A Necessary Clarification: Lane Keister Affirms Preservation—but What Does He Mean?
Lane Keister affirms preservation; the remaining question is whether that affirmation gives the church an identifiable and publicly possessed text.
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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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From Enlightenment Criticism to Westcott and Hort
Richard Simon had converted textual uncertainty into an argument for Roman tradition. If the extant copies could not identify and interpret the Word of God with sufficient certainty, the church must provide the certainty the text lacked. The preceding article examined that…
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