![]() ![]() That may be illustrated by a cursory treatment of manuscript preservation in general. Nix (1986:354): The Preservation of ManuscriptsĪlthough manuscripts give information as to their date, and their quality is governed by their preparation, the preservation of given manuscripts adds vital support to their relative value for the textual critic and student of the Bible. There he will find a different picture to the one he has drawn. I urged him to provide bibliographical information (online info would be most helpful) to confirm what he had stated. ![]() ![]() I indicated to this person online he had provided no documentation for his sources for his statements. We could check it over and over, but we still made errors. I was amazed to see how many mistakes the other students and I made when we had the copy books right beside us. When I was in primary school in Queensland in the 1950s, the curriculum required students to use copy books to copy running writing and CAPITAL LETTERS. If it is possible to do this in the 21st century, human beings in the early centuries of the church were just as capable of not copying accurately. Įxamine the last paragraph he wrote on this Christian forum. How do we know that the above verse was not inserted under the guidance of the holy spirit if we need proof of everything in the Bible then to me it would mean I did not believe it was the word of God.Īs for translation i have read that the Hebrew OT was copied meticulously then checked for mistakes if any where found the whole scroll was destroyed and the started again so I’m confident that the OT is as was written by those how (sic) gave there (sic) names to the different books. Otherwise, we might not have MSS to translate into English. The facts are that in transmission of original MSS, God’s Word has been edited by human beings. We are blessed that there are many MSS and partial MSS so that we can compare the meaning before translation. To get God’s word available to us in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, hundreds of people have been copyists and like you and me if we were doing it, copying is not always done accurately. Many of them are typographical errors because human beings have been the ones doing the copying. There can be hundreds of variants (errors and insertions) when they were copied by hand. We may not like to hear this, but all of God’s word has been handed down to us through oral tradition and copied MSS. ![]() So someone added to/interfered with the NT. It is not in the earliest dated MSS (manuscripts) that we have. I also believe the Bible to be the Word of God, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be interfered with. If as you ask could it be edited by men then it would become mans word not Gods word or a mixture of both which would make it totally unreliable.Īnd we have the sure word of St Paul 2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:ĢTi 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. Gods word is Gods word just because we don’t understand it dose not make it untrue. I did read some time ago that among the dead sea scrolls was a copper scroll of Isaiah dated 200 BC which was word for word as we have it to day So if God can keep the words of his book for over 2000 years why on earth would i doubt its authenticity. I believe the bible to be the word of God in which case it would be impossible for men to interfere with it if God created the world we live in the universe and all life I am quite sure he can make sure the bible we have today is as He wants it to be. On a Christian forum, I was responding to a person who stated that Has the Bible been added to since it was first produced (OT and then NT)? (Page from an 11th-century Aramaic Targum manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, courtesy Wikipedia) ![]()
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