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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 1: What Is Being Charged?
The charge is not that every user of a critical edition is personally an atheist. It is that a theory which makes a revisable scholarly reconstruction the final court of textual authority adopts an atheistic epistemology at that point.
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Of the Holy Scripture III: Self-Attestation, Sufficiency, and Clarity
Westminster Confession 1.5–1.7 teaches that Scripture manifests itself as God's Word, contains the whole counsel necessary for faith and life, and is clear in all things necessary to salvation. This article tests those claims without reducing self-attestation to private feeling or sufficiency…
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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact, and textual identity.
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Inspiration and Preservation: Distinct Acts, Inseparable Ends
Inspiration produced the God-breathed Scriptures; preservation conserves that inspired text through history. The acts differ in mode and instruments while serving one divine purpose: an abiding written rule for the church.
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They Removed It from Their Copies: Augustine, the Woman Taken in Adultery, and the Witnesses That Cannot Be Counted
Augustine’s testimony concerning John 7:53–8:11 does not settle every question of transmission by itself. It does establish that a leading Father received the passage as Scripture, knew of copies without it, and reported a moral motive for its removal—evidence that a surviving-manuscript…
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Kept Pure in All Ages: WCF 1.8 and Its Historical Referent
The preservation clause in WCF 1.8 must be read with its stated consequence: an authentic Hebrew and Greek text to which the church may finally appeal.
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The Translator Is Not a Prophet
Faithful translation is a ministerial work under inspired Scripture. It can truly communicate God’s Word without repeating inspiration, creating new revelation, or placing the translator above his source.
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Of the Holy Scripture II: Necessity, Canon, and Authority
Westminster Confession 1.1–1.4 says more than that God once inspired writings. It confesses the necessity of written revelation, a defined canon, the exclusion of the Apocrypha, and an authority that rests on God rather than the church. This article tests the strongest…
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Of the Holy Scripture I: The Westminster Question, the Critical Corpus, and the Catechism Map
The Westminster reconstruction test begins where Westminster begins: with Holy Scripture. This article fixes the historical target, names the critical corpus, maps the related Larger Catechism questions, and distinguishes the survival of a doctrine from its full derivation.
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Manuscripts Are Witnesses, Not the Word’s Magisterial Judges
Confessional Bibliology does not reject manuscript evidence. It assigns manuscripts their proper office: real and necessary witnesses that serve the authentic text without constituting its authority.
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Who Drew the Flight Path?
A grave doctrinal conclusion is only as sound as the route used to reach it. Exact entailment requires the proposition, definitions, premises, warrants, and possible exits to be stated in full.
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Preserved or Merely Recoverable?
Part Seventeen distinguished the infallible canonical text from the fallible artifacts that witness to it. God did not immediately inspire every scribe, printer, editor, or translator. Yet the fallibility of particular witnesses does not imply that the inspired text disappeared with the…
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