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Has God Preserved His Word—or Merely Its Raw Materials?
The survival of thousands of variant-bearing manuscripts is providentially important, but the existence of evidence is not yet the confession that an authentic text was kept pure and remains available for final appeal.
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Which Texts Are Authentical? The Hebrew and Greek Texts Confessional Bibliology Affirms—and Why
Confessional Bibliology receives the Ben Chayyim–Bomberg Masoretic Hebrew text, including its received vowel points, and the Greek Textus Receptus as the providentially preserved, authentical text of Scripture.
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Certainty, Not the Probability of the Contrary
Bahnsen rejected an apologetic that makes Christianity highly probable while preserving the possibility of its contrary. What happens when the wording of the final authority remains provisional in principle?
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How Confessional Bibliology Conducts a Presuppositional Analysis
A presuppositional analysis asks what a book must assume about authority, knowledge, text, history, providence, and judgment—and whether those assumptions can sustain its conclusions.
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Of the Divine Original - Introduction Part 3
WITH AN ANSWER TO THAT INQUIRY, HOW WE KNOW THE SCRIPTURES TO BE THE WORD OF GOD. PREFATORY NOTE. THIS interesting treatise originated in the request of several persons, who had heard Owen preaching on the subject, that he would publish the…
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Of the Divine Original - Introduction Part 4
WITH AN ANSWER TO THAT INQUIRY, HOW WE KNOW THE SCRIPTURES TO BE THE WORD OF GOD. Continued from Part 3 CHAPTER 4. Innate arguments in the Scripture of its divine original and authority — Its self-evidencing efficacy — All light manifests…
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 2
The Rise of Enlightenment Rationalism: How Simon’s Methods Foreshadow Modern Skepticism ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction Richard Simon 1638–1712 is often described as “the father of modern textual criticism.” More than a…
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Presuppositional Analysis - Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2 (Holy Scripture)
Presuppositional Analysis of Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Volume 2: Holy Scripture—The Cognitive Foundation of Theology by Richard A. Muller ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction to the Presuppositional Method A…
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Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter 1 Part 5
Article 5: What Makes a Book “Canonical”? WCF 1.2 Having examined the tension between tradition and Scripture Article 4 , we now turn to a closely related issue: how the Reformed tradition, and particularly the Westminster Confession of Faith WCF 1.2 ,…
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Presuppositional Analysis - The Canon of the Holy Scriptures
1. Introduction to the Presuppositional Method 1.1 God’s Self-Attesting Revelation In a presuppositional framework, the triune God reveals Himself authoritatively in Scripture such that the Bible bears self-authenticating marks. This principle emerges throughout Gaussen’s…
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Modern Textual Criticism in the Light of Scripture - Part 5
“The True Church” in Conflict: Simon’s Catholic Polemics and Their Impact on Biblical Authority ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction From the earliest days of the Protestant Reformation, the notion of “the true church” was hotly…
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Understanding Confessional Bibliology: Historical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives Part 7
Engagement with the Wider Evangelical and Academic Communities Series Title: “Understanding Confessional Bibliology: Historical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction In our previous…
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