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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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm…
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What Does “Kept Pure in All Ages” Mean? A Precise Confessional Definition
“Kept pure in all ages” means that God preserved the full verbal Hebrew and Greek text he inspired, in the body of copies used by his church, so…
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Why Confessional Bibliology Confesses Infallibility, Not Inerrancy
Confessional Bibliology will use infallibility for its positive confession of Holy Scripture. This is not permission for error. It is a deliberate commitment to the present, preserved, authentic…
Open record →The Word That Cannot Fail: The Biblical and Reformed Doctrine of Infallibility
The historic Reformed doctrine begins with the God who cannot lie, proceeds to the God-breathed words that cannot be broken, and confesses that those words have been preserved…
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