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Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 1
A sustained exposition of the confession’s doctrine of Holy Scripture.
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Inconsistency: Testing the Canons Against Themselves
The canons of textual criticism often point in different directions. Bahnsen’s inconsistency test asks whether critics apply stable rules or change the weight of the rules as the preferred reading changes.
What Scripture claimsGod-breathed, trustworthy, and complete.
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Doctrine of Providential Preservation
How God has kept His Word pure through transmission and history.
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Doctrine of the Canon
The divine authority and ecclesiastical recognition of the canonical books.
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Key Textual Differences and Doctrinal Consequences
Textual changes that weaken, obscure, or remove doctrinal testimony.
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Two Strokes Between “God” and “Who”
In an uncial manuscript, θεός and ὅς can differ by a transverse line and a sacred overbar. The tiny material difference explains both the…
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…
Mark 7:4 — Washings of Cups, Pots, Brasen Vessels, and Tables
The list of inherited washings ends with “tables” or “couches” in the received text. Some witnesses omit the item because washing dining couches sounded…
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Mark 16:9–20Evidence, reception, and doctrinal significance.
John 7:53–8:11Evidence, reception, and doctrinal significance.
1 John 5:7–8Evidence, reception, and doctrinal significance.
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