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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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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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“Tweaking,” “Plus,” and “Minus”: The Rhetoric by Which Critical Revision Becomes Neutral
Shows how apparently neutral terms such as plus, minus, and tweaking can conceal the editorial and ecclesiastical consequences of textual decisions.
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NA29 and Edition Drift: What Changes When the Standard Changes?
NA29 will not merely reprint NA28. This article defines edition drift, identifies the changes already published in UBS6, and establishes the controls required whenever a theological claim appeals to ‘the critical text.’
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Testing Keister’s Method: Matthew 1:7–8, 10–19 and the Actual Variance
Compares Scrivener and NA28 across Matthew 1:7–8 and 10–19, testing Keister’s method at the Asa/Asaph and Amon/Amos readings and the passage’s remaining variants.
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Preservation in Name Only
Theological revolutions do not always begin by rejecting familiar words. Often the older vocabulary is retained while its doctrinal content is quietly altered. Inspiration may be affirmed while reduced to religious insight. Resurrection may be affirmed while redefined as the disciples’ continuing…
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Preservation Is an Act of God’s Special Providence toward His Church
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Not an Intramural Debate: The Textual Question Concerns What God Has Spoken
The textual question cannot be confined to an academic side room. It asks which words constitute the inspired, preserved, authentic rule by which every doctrine, translation, sermon, and controversy must be judged.
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Preservation with a Preserved Text: The Confessional Verdict
States the series’ confessional verdict that preservation must terminate in an identifiable, publicly possessed Hebrew and Greek text prior to the critic’s judgment.
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Why “No Doctrine Is Affected” Is Not Enough
Few reassurances appear more frequently in discussions of textual criticism than the claim that no Christian doctrine is affected by textual variants. The statement is meant to calm believers who have just learned that manuscripts differ, that familiar passages are bracketed or…
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No Neutral Ground Beneath the Apparatus: Faith, Science, and the Final Court
Manuscripts supply readings, not their own rank or theological meaning. Gaussen’s distinction between faith and historical science shows why evidence must serve Scripture’s doctrine rather than constitute the Church’s Bible.
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The Authentic Old Testament Is Preserved in the Hebrew Masoretic Textual Tradition
A doctrine of preservation that cannot identify the preserved text remains incomplete.
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