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robinson and perpient collated against the kjv, post 1

Recently, in an earlier post, I lamented a bit about how even highly educated members of Christianity remains sadly ignorant on matters of textual criticism.  And then I thought to myself:  what can I do for that situation?  And I came up with something that’s not a solution, but might be a tiny step forward–collating [...]
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textual corruption and 1 timothy 3:16

Probably most of you are familiar with John 3:16, and probably a few of you with 2 Timothy 3:16. The first of these 3:16′s demonstrates the gift of Jesus Christ’s resurrection. The second demonstrates the gift of scripture given by God. But there’s another 3:16 I want to discuss today, and it is 1 Timothy [...]
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another sad example of misinformation

Those of you who know my opinions about textual criticism (or maybe just my dad), know that I am unabashedly Byzantine-priorist. And although I don’t condemn those who happen to disagree with me, I hate to see facts twisted. One of the most unfortunate examples of this is the way in which our position is [...]
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a ring of little russian dolls in the canon

You’ve all, I hope, seen those little Russian dolls, where each doll contains within itself a somewhat littler Russian doll.  It occurred to me that the disputes about the canon of scripture are rather similar. Related Posts:beyond the canon listConfederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Biblerobinson and pierpont, collated against the kjv, post 8maurice [...]
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one word for textual critics — collation

Although the internet age has brought loads of data to the public, one area where this has not served to resolve dispute is in the field of New Testament textual criticism. Looking through the internet for information on TC, one cannot help but notice that there are vast numbers of people promoting all sorts of [...]
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beyond the canon list

It would be nice to say that once we’ve got Jesus and the canon settled, that’s the end of the story. And it would be partially true. If you read the books of the Bible, no matter what translation they are in (unless it is by some sort of weird group purposefully altering the text), [...]
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