Category: Bible Textual Integrity
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Textual Criticism : Resolving The Christian “I‑Know-Nothing” Multi-Problem
Occasionally, we come across Christians face-to-face and, more frequently, on the Internet, who, when informed that the text of the gospels underwent corruption during their transmission, often react with the following type of questions: "When? Who did the corruption? In what country? Before or after Muhammad? Why was it done? How come no one noticed…
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The Usage and Significance of the New Testament Versions for Text Critical Purposes
"Versions" are simply the translations of the New Testament into other languages. The New Testament writers originally wrote their books and epistles in the Greek language whereas the versions are translations of their writings into other languages. Naturally, non-Greek speaking Christians wanted the text of the New Testament in their own local languages and so…
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They Say : “Your Bible Has Not Been Corrupted”. Really ?
What do the differences between Bible manuscripts reveal? This paper is divided into the following sections: 1. They require you to produce evidence on: WHEN, HOW and WHY was the Bible corrupted 2. Once upon a time, there was a myth about Bible manuscripts 3. Evidence: more than 50 verses either omitted or added, hundreds…
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Excerpts From “New Testament Origins” By George M. Lamsa
The "Old Syriac" manuscripts of the Four Gospels known as the Sinaitic Palimpsest, discovered by Mrs. Agnes Lewis in the Covenant of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai in 1892, unfortunately was forged by the Monks, deliberately, before it was sold to Mrs. Lewis and her companions. They made a hole in the date of the…
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Differences Between Modern Bible Translations
We will take the most popular Bibles such as the King James Version (KJV), the Revised Standard Version (RSV), the New International Version (NIV), the Good News Bible (GNB), the Living Bible Version (LBV) as well as the Christian Community Bible (CCB) and contrast the same verses within these Bibles.
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Books Mentioned in the Bible But Is Missing From Today’s Text
I have been reading with interest the last few exchanges regarding the reading of Jeremiah 8:8 -- "How can you say; 'We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie'" Note: Whenever you see that term 'Law of…
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On The Integrity of the Bible
Before 1881, all translations of the New Testament (including, most importantly, the 1611 King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorised Version (AV)), were based on copies of Greek manuscripts known as the Textus Receptus, which is Latin for Received Text. (Abbreviated to TR). But in the 19th and 20th centuries, older Greek manuscripts…
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The Spuriousness of So-Called Pauline Epistles Exemplified by the Epistle to the Galatians
From the standpoint of the ordinary theology of the day it is a psychological riddle how the Paul of the Four Letters can have followed the historical Jesus at so short an interval. Pierson opened the eyes of Loman to this fact. It seemed to him that the developed Christianity of the community and the…
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The Art of the Gospels : Theology as Fictional Narrative
In the first century of the Common Era, there appeared at the eastern end of the Mediterranean a remarkable religious leader who taught the worship of one true God and declared that religion meant not the sacrifice of beasts but the practice of charity and piety an the shunning of hatred and enmity. He was…