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The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist
A question at the end of the Riddle-White debate exposed the prior problem modern textual criticism cannot evade: by what ultimate standard are manuscripts, canons, and critics themselves judged?
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Mark 1:2 — “In the Prophets” or “in Isaiah the Prophet”? The Opening Citation
Mark introduces a composite citation with either “in the prophets” or “in Isaiah the prophet.” The difference forces a question about quotation formulas, not about whether Scripture contains an error.
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The Label Is Not an Argument
Calling Confessional Bibliology “KJV-only,” “TR-only,” or “Ruckmanite” does not answer its doctrine of preservation. When a loaded label is made to carry the argument, it becomes an act of intellectual cowardice and, among Christians, a sin against truth.
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Mark 1:8 — Water, the Holy Ghost, and the Two Baptisms of John’s Testimony
The main texts agree on John’s contrast between water and the Holy Ghost, but differ over small particles and a preposition. Those details affect balance and emphasis, not the identity of either baptism.
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What James White Calls ‘TR-Onlyism’
James White distinguishes several kinds of KJV and Received Text advocacy. The problem is not that no distinctions appear, but that one umbrella label can conceal decisive differences in authority, text, preservation, and method.
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Mark 1:14 — “The Gospel of the Kingdom of God”: Has the Kingdom Been Removed?
The received text says Jesus preached “the gospel of the kingdom of God.” The critical text shortens the expression to “the gospel of God,” though the kingdom remains explicit in the next verse.
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Confessional Bibliology Is Not KJV-Onlyism
Confessional Bibliology values the Authorized Version because of its fidelity to the received Hebrew and Greek texts, but it places every translation beneath those authentic originals.
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Mark 1:41 — Moved with Compassion or Moved with Anger? Jesus and the Leper
A striking minority reading says Jesus was moved with anger when the leper appealed to him. The received and principal critical texts retain compassion, but the harder reading has shaped modern discussion.
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Mark 2:14 — Levi the Son of Alphaeus: Name, Article, and Calling
The main received and critical texts agree that Jesus called Levi the son of Alphaeus. Variants substitute James, adjust the article, or smooth the name, but they do not overturn the narrative identity.
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Which Texts Are Authentical? The Hebrew and Greek Texts Confessional Bibliology Affirms—and Why
Confessional Bibliology receives the Ben Chayyim–Bomberg Masoretic Hebrew text, including its received vowel points, and the Greek Textus Receptus as the providentially preserved, authentical text of Scripture.
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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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The House upon the Sure Foundation
The Church did not give the Word of God its authority, and textual critics do not give it identity. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures, with Christ as the chief cornerstone, are the antecedent and authentic foundation upon which the Church is built.
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