The Church Must Receive, Confess, and Use the Text God Has Preserved
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The Standard James White Said Did Not Exist
A question at the end of the Riddle-White debate exposed the prior problem modern textual criticism cannot evade: by what ultimate standard are manuscripts, canons, and critics themselves…
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Difficult Variants Must Be Resolved Within the Received Text
The previous thesis argued that the traditional text must be evaluated as a providential whole. That conclusion immediately raises a practical question.
Open record →The Self-Attesting Word and the Impossibility of a Higher Court
An ultimate authority cannot be certified by a more ultimate tribunal. The doctrine of Scripture must therefore explain how the self-attesting Word is recognized in extant words without…
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The Traditional Text Must Be Evaluated as a Providential Whole
Modern textual criticism habitually presents each textual variant as an independent contest.
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