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Scripture’s Self-Attestation and the problem of formulating a doctrine of Scripture
Alternate title: Scripture’s Self-Attestation and the problem of formulating a doctrine of Scripture. http://www.waynegrudem.com/scriptures-self-attestation- and-the-problem-of-formulating-a-doctrine-of-scripture
Garnet Howard Milne cites this book / treatise in the secondary material of Has the Bible Been Kept Pure? The record preserves Milne's exact citation and source-page evidence. Current access research is labeled: Free author-provided copy. Its textual methodology has not yet…
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Scripture’s Own Doctrine of Preservation
Scripture presents God’s written words as covenantally given, publicly deposited, enduring beyond every generation, incapable of being broken, and continually available to govern the church.
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Which Bible Is Self-Attesting?
Scripture’s self-attestation cannot remain an abstract property of inaccessible originals. The church hears God in extant words, so a complete apologetic must identify the preserved textual object that attests itself.
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Profession Is Not Derivation: What an Orthodox Confession Cannot Prove About a Method
A man signs a confession stating that God exists in three persons. He preaches the deity of Christ, recommends serious books on the Trinity, and defends Christianity in public. Another man analyzes the textual premises used in his apologetic and concludes that…
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A Certain Faith Built on a Provisional Text
Bahnsen rejected apologetic foundations that leave Christianity merely probable. Yet a reconstructionist textual model makes the church’s operative wording revisable in principle at every disputed place.
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No Major Doctrine? The Verdict After the Cases Have Been Heard
“No major doctrine is affected” is one of the most successful sentences in modern textual apologetics. It concedes the existence of differences while immediately limiting their importance. It permits the speaker to acknowledge omitted verses, altered predicates, bracketed narratives, and rival nouns…
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The Only Honest Ways Off the Plane
An unwanted conclusion can be escaped by retracting a premise, disproving a necessary connection, exposing equivocation, or showing invalid inference. Denial does not reroute an argument.
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Preservation as the Test Case
Biblical preservation concerns the words God gave and kept for the continuing faith and final appeal of the church. A surviving pool of evidence is not yet the confessional doctrine.
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Naturalism in Theological Dress
Historical evidence and ordinary providence are Christian goods. Naturalism enters when revealed promise is excluded and an autonomous process is made sufficient to account for the text.
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Providence Plus Textual Science: The Restoration Principle
Bahnsen’s assurance rests on providence together with textual criticism, while his rule that an imperfect text should yield to a superior one makes present textual identity reconstructionist in structure.
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‘God Has Not Promised Perfect Transmission’: From Kept Pure to Essential Purity
Bahnsen’s denial of promised perfect transmission answers claims confessional preservation does not make, then substitutes practical adequacy for Westminster’s confession of a text kept pure and presently authentic.
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The Foundation Remains
The failure of reconstructive authority cannot destroy the authentic Word. Christ remains the chief cornerstone, the prophetic-apostolic foundation remains available, and the Church may build again through confession, reception, rigorous ministerial scholarship, and faithful translation.
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