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‘Kept Pure in All Ages’: The Confessional Control
Westminster 1.8 joins immediate inspiration, singular providence, continuing purity, present authenticity, and final appeal. Its original wording does not describe merely sufficient or recoverable Scripture.
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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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Infallibility and Inerrancy: When Shared Words Conceal a Doctrinal Shift
Warfield did not invent biblical truthfulness, but his autographic formulation reconfigured the locus of perfection and the role of textual criticism.
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Book Review: Treatises Concerning the Scriptures
Treatises Concerning the Scriptures Bibliographical Notice John Owen, “Treatises Concerning the Scriptures,” in The Works of John Owen, vol. 16, ed. William H. Goold (supplied Goold edition). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict John Owen’s Treatises Concerning the Scriptures must be…
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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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Infallibility in Name, Autographic Inerrancy in Structure
Bahnsen used infallibility in its strongest sense, yet confined it formally to the autographic text. The decisive issue is not vocabulary but the present locus of final authority.
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Scripture for the Church
God committed his Word to writing for his church. The act of inscripturation examined in the previous article was not an end in itself, as though God intended merely to produce a sacred artifact. He gave Scripture to preserve and spread the…
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Did Bahnsen Hold the Historic Reformed Doctrine of Inspiration?
Bahnsen’s doctrine was substantially Reformed at the point of Scripture’s divine production, but modern and Warfieldian at transmission, textual identity, and the continuing locus of the inspired Word.
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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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When Words Change Their Meaning: Semantic Shift and False Continuity
Shared vocabulary can hide changed concepts; historical term ledgers expose semantic shift before continuity is claimed.
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Inspiration Is an Act; the Inspired Word Is Its Enduring Product
Copyists are not inspired, but it does not follow that the inspired words cease to be Scripture when faithfully copied. Historic Reformed theology distinguishes act, agent, product, artifact, and textual identity.
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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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