The Text Is Not the Artifact
God promised to preserve His Word, not to keep every individual copy that ever bore it from perishing. Confusing the manuscript with the text creates the first and…
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Manuscripts Are Witnesses, Not the Word’s Magisterial Judges
Confessional Bibliology does not reject manuscript evidence. It assigns manuscripts their proper office: real and necessary witnesses that serve the authentic text without constituting its authority.
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Text, Witness, Edition, and Translation
The argument over TBS repeatedly collapses four different things: the inspired text, manuscript witnesses, printed editions, and translations. Keeping them distinct exposes why manuscript counting, historical collation, and…
Open record →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…
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