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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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Preservation, Canonization, and Recognition: Three Questions That Must Not Be Confused
Which books are Scripture, what words constitute those books, and how the church recognizes both are related but distinct questions. God creates the canon and text; the church receives them through ministerial means.
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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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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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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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Preservation Extends to the Words of Scripture
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation Pertains to the Inspired Text, Not to the Material Survival of the Autographs
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation Does Not Require Every Manuscript or Copy to Be Errorless
Confessional Bibliology, Stated and Defended: Twenty-Five Theses on the Word God Has Preserved
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Preservation Is Not Built on One Proof Text: The Canonical Witness
Preservation rests upon Scripture’s cumulative canonical witness to a determinate written deposit that endures, remains present speech, and governs the church.
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Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?
Alternate title: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Providential Preservation of Scripture
Independently published, 2017.
Milne argues from primary Reformation and post-Reformation sources that Westminster Confession 1.8 teaches providential preservation of the complete wording of Scripture in accessible Hebrew and Greek copies, not merely preservation of doctrine or a recoverable text hidden across the manuscript tradition. Extended…
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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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