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Originally posted by CalvinandHodges
If the critical text was that bad than what does one say to those who have found salvation from reading it?
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I imagine we would say much the same thing as when the grace of God saves a soul despite being under a ministry which does not declare the whole counsel of God, or corrupts that counsel in some way. None can prescribe to God who and by what means He shall be pleased to accomplish His purpose. But we are called upon to use the most pure means available to us, and to expose any attempt which is made to corrupt those means.
Consider the strong language of John Owen with respect to the deniers of providential preservation:
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Let me say without offence, this imagination, asserted on deliberation, seems to me to border on atheism. Surely the promise of God for the preservation of his word, with his love and care of his church, of whose faith and obedience that word of his is the only rule, requires other thoughts at our hands." Works, 16:357.
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