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The Method on Trial: Arbitrariness, Inconsistency, Consequences, and Preconditions
An apologetic may succeed against one opponent and fail as an account of its own authority. Wesley Huff can show a skeptic that the New Testament is vastly better attested than many ancient works. He can expose false claims about manuscripts, explain…
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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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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 5: Four Escapes That Cannot Save the Critical Text
The usual replies to the preservation argument either redefine preservation, reduce the rule of faith to a doctrinal core, or make scholarly probability supreme. None supplies a present and identifiable Word able to judge the church.
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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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The Bible They Cannot Know, Part 3: Probability Cannot Speak with Divine Authority
Historical investigation may serve the church, but it cannot become the court that decides what God has said. A probable reading cannot bear the same authority as a known word of God.
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Of the Holy Scripture V: Chapter Conclusion—Can the Critical Greek and Hebrew Texts Sustain Westminster’s Doctrine of Scripture?
The first chapter verdict is now due. The critical corpus retains much of Westminster's doctrine of Scripture, but the question is whether it independently supplies the confession's historical claim that the original Hebrew and Greek texts were kept pure, are authentical, and…
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Of the Holy Scripture IV: Original Languages, Preservation, Interpretation, and Final Appeal
The final paragraphs of Westminster Confession 1 ask whether the inspired Hebrew and Greek Scriptures have been kept pure, whether they remain the church's authentic court of appeal, how translations serve the people of God, and how Scripture interprets Scripture. This article…
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Of the Holy Scripture I: The Westminster Question, the Critical Corpus, and the Catechism Map
The Westminster reconstruction test begins where Westminster begins: with Holy Scripture. This article fixes the historical target, names the critical corpus, maps the related Larger Catechism questions, and distinguishes the survival of a doctrine from its full derivation.
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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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Magisterial and Ministerial Textual Criticism
The deepest question in textual criticism is not how many manuscripts a scholar has collated, how early a codex is dated, or how sophisticated his account of scribal habits may be. It is not even which reading he selects at a particular…
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Ecclesiastical Reception Recognizes the Text but Does Not Create It
The church does not make the Bible. The Bible makes the church.
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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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