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Reasoning with Unbelievers and Heretics under Scripture’s Final Court
The Christian must answer unbelief and heresy without surrendering Scripture’s authority to a supposedly neutral court.
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Scholarship Under the Word: The Ministerial Alternative
The alternative to academic captivity is exacting historical, linguistic, and textual scholarship ordered beneath Scripture’s authority and practiced for Christ’s Church.
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Matthew 17:20 — Unbelief or Little Faith? Why the Disciples Could Not Cast It Out
The disciples had tried and failed to cast out a devil. When they ask why, the received text answers unbelief.
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The Received Text Must Not Be Simplistically Equated with One Immaculate Printed Edition
Providential preservation does not require one inspired printer or one independently immaculate early edition; it requires the church’s possession of the text God inspired and preserved.
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Matthew 17:21 — “Prayer and Fasting”: Is the Entire Verse Authentic?
Many modern Bibles move this sentence to a footnote. The earliest Greek witnesses behind the critical text omit the entire verse, while the received text and the broad later tradition keep it.
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Matthew 18:11 — “The Son of Man Is Come to Save That Which Was Lost”
This sentence stands between Christ’s warning not to despise his little ones and the parable of the wandering sheep. The Textus Receptus keeps it.
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Diplomatic and Eclectic Editions: Why the Old and New Testament Projects Are Not Identical
BHS and BHQ reproduce an identified Hebrew manuscript above the apparatus; Nestle–Aland and UBS print an eclectic editorial reconstruction. The projects must not be described as though they were identical.
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Stop Playing the Game: A Confessional Manifesto
A concluding confession for textual scholarship under Scripture: no neutrality, no academic magisterium, no retreat into KJV-onlyism, and no fear of man.
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Matthew 18:15, 35 — “Against Thee” and “Their Trespasses”: Two Disputed Personalizing Clauses
Two short phrases make Christ’s commands personal. In verse 15, the received text says a brother sins against thee.
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A Distinction Must Be Maintained among the Text, Its Witnesses, and Its Editions
The inspired text, the manuscripts that witness it, and the editions that present it must be distinguished without separating the text from its providentially preserved witnesses.
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Matthew 19:9 — Fornication, Remarriage, and the Disputed Final Adultery Clause
Matthew 19:9 carries several small shifts in the exception clause, but the largest dispute comes at the end. The Textus Receptus says that the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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Matthew 19:17 — “Why Callest Thou Me Good?” The Rich Young Ruler and the Goodness of God
The rich young man calls Jesus “Good Master” and asks what good thing he must do to have eternal life. The Textus Receptus answers, “Why callest thou me good?” The critical text reads, “Why askest thou me…
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