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Internal Critique: Testing a System by Its Own First Principles
An internal critique does not dismiss a position from outside or attack its advocate. It states the system in its strongest form and asks whether its conclusions can live consistently with its own governing commitments.
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When the Canons Collide: The Question That Exposes the Method
What happens when the harder reading is also the longer reading? That plain collision opens the deeper question of who has authority to rank the canons and constitute the text of Scripture for the Church.
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Mark 3:29 — Eternal Damnation or Eternal Sin? The Warning against Blasphemy
The warning ends with either “eternal judgment” or “eternal sin.” Both readings exclude forgiveness, but they describe the offender’s condition from different angles.
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Mark 3:14 — “Whom He Also Named Apostles”: Addition or Omission?
The Textus Receptus moves from the appointment of the Twelve directly to their purpose. Many witnesses insert “whom he also named apostles,” the exact naming clause found in Luke 6:13.
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Building Another Foundation
Modern textual reconstruction does not merely collect old stones. It assembles a new judicial foundation: an editorial text whose identity rests upon fallible and revisable decisions, yet which is asked to bear the divine titles of the authentic Word.
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“He That Answereth a Matter Before He Heareth It”: Rash Speech and Knowing Equivocation Among Elders
The Ninth Commandment requires elders to hear a textual position from its primary sources, represent it truthfully, and refuse the equivocation that preserves confessional words while replacing their meaning.
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What ‘Kept Pure in All Ages’ Actually Confesses
The original grammar, proof texts, polemical setting, and final-appeal clause of WCF 1.8 identify a preserved Hebrew and Greek text—not merely surviving doctrine or scattered textual possibilities.
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Mark 3:32 — “Thy Brethren and Thy Sisters”: Does the Reference to the Sisters Belong?
Some witnesses tell Jesus that his mother, brothers, and sisters are outside. The received text mentions only his mother and brothers, agreeing with the family’s arrival and Jesus’ reply.
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Mark 6:33 — “Outwent Them” or “Came Together unto Him”? The Crowd’s Movement
The received narrative says the crowd both outran the boat and gathered to Jesus. The shorter critical form keeps the outstripping but omits the final gathering clause.
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Mark 4:40 — “How Is It That Ye Have No Faith?” The Full Rebuke after the Storm
After stilling the storm, Jesus asks either why the disciples have no faith or whether they still have no faith. The difference is one small adverb with a real effect on the rebuke’s timing.
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Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables
The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded incongruous.
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What Did God Promise to Preserve? Books, Words, and the Whole Counsel of God
Providential preservation concerns God’s inscripturated revelation in its canonical and verbal fullness—not merely surviving religious ideas, a sufficient doctrinal residue, or the continued existence of particular manuscripts.
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