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The Authentic New Testament Is Preserved in the Greek Received Text Tradition
The doctrine of preservation must eventually identify a text.
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The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition
Providential preservation does not require one inspired printer or one independently immaculate early edition; it requires the church’s possession of the text God inspired and preserved.
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Textual Criticism Is Legitimate Only as a Ministerial Discipline
Textual criticism is legitimate when it serves the preserved text under Scripture’s authority; it becomes illegitimate when scholarship is made the court that gives the text its identity.
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When Textual Criticism Becomes Magisterial
Textual criticism becomes magisterial when an indefinitely continuing scholarly reconstruction is made the court that gives Scripture its identity.
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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Preservation Is Not Built on One Proof Text: The Canonical Witness
Preservation rests upon Scripture’s cumulative canonical witness to a determinate written deposit that endures, remains present speech, and governs the church.
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Preservation with a Preserved Text: The Confessional Verdict
States the series’ confessional verdict that preservation must terminate in an identifiable, publicly possessed Hebrew and Greek text prior to the critic’s judgment.
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What Does “Kept Pure in All Ages” Mean? A Precise Confessional Definition
“Kept pure in all ages” means that God preserved the full verbal Hebrew and Greek text he inspired, in the body of copies used by his church, so that no part of Scripture was lost and no future reconstruction is needed.
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The Testament Is Not Perpetually Under Probate: Kept Pure for the Heirs
God did not leave his church an estate file from which experts must perpetually reconstruct a will. He kept the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the authentic rule of faith for his heirs.
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Kept Pure in All Ages: What Westminster Confession 1.8 Actually Confesses
Westminster 1.8 confesses inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures kept pure in every age, therefore presently authentic and available for final appeal.
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The Same Words, Another Doctrine: Lane Keister, Equivocation, and the Ninth Commandment
Shows that Lane Keister’s claim of precise agreement on preservation depends upon giving the historic term a different aggregate and reconstructive meaning, then applies the Ninth Commandment to the resulting public equivocation without alleging knowledge of his heart.
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Introduction to Confessional Bibliology: Part Two
Introduction: The Historical Roots of Confessional Bibliology Confessional Bibliology is not a new or novel concept but a doctrinal framework rooted in the historic practices and beliefs of the Christian church. It stands on the foundation of God’s promises to preserve His…
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