The King James Bible and Its Critics
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Date: 2024-03-25

20 Articles That Refute Modern Textual Criticism
Posted on October 6, 2020 by The Young, Textless, and Reformed
Introduction
https://youngtextlessreformed.com/2020/10/06/20-articles-that-refute-modern-textual-criticism/

Every time I write an article, my blog becomes increasingly difficult to navigate. I probably need to revamp how the site is organized, but until then I thought I’d put together an article that serves as a glossary to some helpful articles that respond to common claims made by Critical Text apologists.

I have heard it said that in the refutation of the Critical Text, TR advocates are being unnecessarily negative and critical without offering any solutions. This is not true, because the TR position has a rich doctrinal structure, furnished with historical and Scriptural support. If you want to read a summary of the argument in support of the TR, see this article. If you want to read a number of articles I have written on the topic, see this category here.

Common Claims Made by Critical Text Apologists Answered

TR Advocates are more skeptical than Bart Ehrman
Treating Text and Canon the same is a category error
P75 proves that Vaticanus is early and reliable
Beza was doing the same thing as modern textual critics
The CBGM can get us to 125AD
There is a “fatal flaw” in TR argumentation
The CBGM is going to give us a Bible more accurate than before
The CBGM is “God’s gift to the church”
The TR position offers no meaningful apologetic to Bart Ehrman
The TR position is “anachronistic”
The TR position starts with the TR and is circular
Adopting the critical text is consistent with presuppositional apologetics
There is no doctrine affected between the TR and CT
The TR position is “textual mythology”
Learning textual criticism is necessary for apologetics
The burden of proof is on the TR advocates
The Bible does not teach providential preservation
There is no difference between Critical Bibliology and Reformed Bibliology
It is possible to reconstruct the original autographs with extant evidence
The TR position is just fundamentalism, emotionalism, and traditionalism
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Providential Preservation
Posted on March 30, 2021 by The Young, Textless, and Reformed
This article is a part of the series called Foundations of Protestant Bibliology. In this series, I will examine the core theological foundations of the Protestant view of Scripture.

Introduction
https://youngtextlessreformed.com/2021/03/30/providential-preservation/
Does the Modern Apologetic Offer a Meaningful Response to Bart Ehrman?
https://youngtextlessreformed.com/2019/09/23/does-the-modern-apologetic-offer-a-meaningful-response-to-bart-ehrman/
https://youngtextlessreformed.com/2020/02/04/the-theology-of-the-text-what-is-preservation/
https://youngtextlessreformed.com/2023/03/14/essay-from-received-text-anthology-under-fire/