The Martin Rule of Exact Doctrinal Entailment
A 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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At Least Three Is Not Exactly Three: The Missing Premise in the Critical-Text Trinity
Suppose 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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‘No Doctrine Is Affected’ Is Not an Answer
A 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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“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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Book or Tree? Revelation 22:19 and the Myth of Doctrinal Neutrality
The last warning in Scripture is also the site of a textual dispute. The received text of Revelation 22:19 warns that if a man takes away from the…
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