
Post · October 23, 2026D0 through D4 distinguish neutrality, lost testimony, accommodation, formal entailment, and orthodox counterevidence. The classes measure a reading’s demonstrated effect without turning a local finding into a corpus…
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Post · October 16, 2026A reading must be judged by what its words necessarily assert, what they remove, and what must be imported from elsewhere. The Martin Rule prevents both doctrinal minimization…
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Post · October 15, 2026Suppose a witness tells a court that he saw Peter, James, and John enter a room. He has established the presence of three men. He has not established…
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Post · October 10, 2026A doctrine may survive elsewhere while a changed reading removes, weakens, or redirects what one passage says. The proper question is not whether Christianity survives, but what exact…
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Post · October 8, 2026“No major doctrine is affected” is one of the most successful sentences in modern textual apologetics. It concedes the existence of differences while immediately limiting their importance. It…
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