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Presuppositional Analysis: The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception
The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question Greg L. Bahnsen’s The Apologetic Implications of Self-Deception rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual identity, history, providence, and human judgment. Bahnsen’s philosophical dissertation analyzes self-deception, not…
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Who Put John 5:4 into the Bible? What the Evidence Actually Proves
The question came to Wesley Huff from a Mormon missionary: Who took John 5:4 out of your Bible? Huff describes turning to the passage and finding verse 3 followed by verse 5. His answer reverses the accusation. The better question, he says,…
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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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Inspiration, Canonicity, Authority, and Preservation
Inspiration, canonicity, authority, and preservation belong together, but they do not answer the same question. Keeping their order prevents confusion about the books God gave and the words he keeps before his Church.
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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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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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The Text Is Not the Artifact
God promised to preserve His Word, not to keep every individual copy that ever bore it from perishing. Confusing the manuscript with the text creates the first and most basic error in modern textual argument.
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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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“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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