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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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Mark 7:19 — “Purging All Meats”: Grammar, Punctuation, and a Modern Interpretive Claim
The Greek word “cleansing” is overwhelmingly secure. The dispute concerns what it modifies and how editors punctuate the sentence: the bodily process or Jesus as narrator who thereby declared all foods clean.
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Mark 5:41 — Talitha Cumi: The Aramaic Command and Its Greek Transmission
The Aramaic command survives in several spellings, especially “cumi” and “cum.” The received feminine form suits the girl addressed, while both forms could sound alike in later pronunciation.
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The 99 Percent Argument Is Not a Majority-Text Rule
TBS’s appeal to the overwhelming transmission of Mark 16 is a powerful internal criticism of critical-text weighting. It becomes inconsistent only if it is made an absolute counting rule. Steele assumes that universal rule, then uses difficult minority readings to refute a…
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The Order of Historical Evidence: Text, Whole Work, Usage, Controversy, and Reception
A disciplined hierarchy keeps primary text, whole-work context, period usage, controversy, and reception from being reversed or selectively used.
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Prayer, Obedience, and the Equal Honour of the Son
Christ’s prayers, obedience, and reception of authority belong to his true humanity and mediatorial office; his reception of divine worship reveals his eternal equality with the Father.
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The Fact, Inference, and Motive Safeguard: Keep Distinct Claims Distinct
Documentary facts, necessary inferences, probable implications, theological judgments, and claims about motive require different evidence.
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Matthew 10:23 — “Flee Ye into Another”: The Text of Christ’s Persecution Instruction
At first glance this looks like a missing-verse dispute. It is not.
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UBS6: The Current Greek Text and the Published Proxy for NA29
UBS6 is the newest published Greek main text and is officially identified with the Greek text intended for NA29. Its role must be distinguished from NA28, the ESV, the ECM, and the still-forthcoming complete NA29 edition.
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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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Matthew 10:37–42 — Loving Family, Loving Christ, and the Cup of Cold Water: Two Related Variants
Two details in the closing charge to the Twelve are sometimes pulled into textual debates. One is a full line about loving son or daughter more than Christ.
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Preservation Entails the Public Availability of the Authentic Text
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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