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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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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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Does Modern Textual Criticism Stand in Confessional Continuity? A Controlled Comparison
A controlled comparison tests authority, textual object, preservation, authenticity, variants, conjecture, criticism, and church reception without collapsing history into judgment.
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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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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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Gill, Buxtorf, and the Hebrew Vowel Points: Expertise, Usage, and Historical Testimony
The vowel-point controversy requires exact claims about written signs, vocalization, authority, and doctrinal use rather than an appeal to famous names.
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Lane Keister: Preservation Affirmed, but What Has Been Preserved?
Lane Keister explicitly affirms preservation, but the question is whether the doctrine he affirms is the same doctrine confessed in Westminster 1.8.
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A Fallible Servant or a Final Court? The Place of Textual Criticism
Textual criticism need not claim infallibility to become functionally supreme. Its proper place is determined by whether it recognizes a preserved Word or conditions which words may presently exercise final authority.
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Providence Redefined: A Manuscript Treasury Is Not a Text
The preservation of manuscript evidence is a real providential good, but a treasury of divergent witnesses still requires an authorized rule to identify the church’s text.
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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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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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The Word by Which Every Doctrine Is Judged
Because Scripture is the rule by which the church knows all doctrine, corruption in bibliology can become foundational rather than merely secondary.
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