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Textus Receptus - Default Text or Chosen Text?
One of the oft made claims of a popular apologist in evangelical circles is that the Reformers did not choose the Textus Receptus, but that they used it because they had no other options. Is that true? Were there no other Greek…
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The Back-Translation Charge: Evidence, Not Enumeration
A claim that Erasmus invented Greek from Latin must identify the Greek form, Latin source, edition, and later transmission. Counting “five” or “six” verses without that work is rhetoric, not a demonstrated textual history.
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The Rush to Print: Speed Is Not a Textual Theory
Erasmus’s 1516 edition was produced quickly. That fact does not prove the familiar commercial-race story, nor can it establish a particular reading without a reading-specific argument.
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 4: The Borrowed Bible and the God Who Kept His Word
The critical-text position borrows the authority of a Bible whose public identity it cannot ground. Christ's promise requires an available and identifiable written Word; the confessional doctrine of preservation supplies it.
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Repeat the Method, Lose the Text
If competent editors can repeat the accepted critical process and produce a different Greek text, the process has not uniquely identified the church's final standard. Its translations inherit the same defect.
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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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Revelation’s Missing Ending: Evidence, Limits, and Later Editions
The alleged back-translation of Revelation’s ending is regularly stated as a fixed fact, although the number of verses changes with the retelling. Erasmus’s own statements establish a narrower history, which must be traced reading by reading and edition by edition.
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The Canons Have No Umpire: Dabney Vindicated and Refined
Dabney’s 1881 criticism of the Revised Version sharpens the ecclesial issue, but his case must be retained without treating him as infallible or freezing nineteenth-century evidence.
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When a Text Becomes Public: Printing, Preservation, and the End of Manuscript Necessity
Printing did not inspire an editor or create Scripture. It did make a received text publicly stable and widely accessible, so that the church's possession of the Word no longer depended upon the survival of particular manuscript artifacts.
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Erasmus and Codex Vaticanus: The Claim Must Be Tested
The claim that Erasmus ignored or never had access to Codex Vaticanus usually confuses a physical codex, readings reported from it, and Erasmus’s own stated judgment about those readings. Those are not interchangeable things.
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Mark 9:23 — “If Thou Canst Believe” or “If Thou Canst”? Who Is Being Challenged?
Jesus either challenges the father’s ability to believe or takes up the father’s own words, “If thou canst.” Both lead to the declaration that all things are possible to the believer.
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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 2: The Lost Autograph Cannot Rule the Church
A Bible located only in vanished autographs cannot function as the church's present rule. The question is not whether God inspired the first inscription, but whether He preserved His words in a form His people can identify and obey.
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