CT or MT

Then you say in post #35 "I for one believe we shouldn't use such prejudicial terms."

Beware of your own contemptuousness.

W&H were not the first Bible scholars to come to textual conclusions which didn't favor the Majority Text.

How much eclectism is permissible?

 

This sounds like a challenge. I wonder if Rippon will accept.

 

Probably not, since I wrote this back on the 21st and he has posted since. :saint:

 

Go to :The Pre-95 NASB Used TR thread and check out posts numbered 2,4 and 7.

 

Why don't we use Matthew 17:21 as a case study? I will start a new thread.

 

The CT.

The MT at its most basic counts noses. The bottom line is that the variant that best explains the existence of all the readings is the most likely original.

The constant slamming of Alexandria is nothing short of hilarious - since NOBODY KNOWS where those mss were made. Aland pointed this out in Trinity Journal nearly 25 years ago. To argue "they were made in Alexandria and it had x" is one of the worst forms of genetic fallacy imaginable.

Conflate readings is the most compelling argument.

 

I also agree with your assessment of the 2 Greek texts
BUT

Question I would also have when this comes up for discussion amiong Christians...

other then those who translate the texts, or those involved in textual criticism etc

Are there actually "few" maong the Chrsitian body informed/ qualified enough to even give a reasonable reply to the OP?

 

Nope. Most either follow a favored scholar or put it in the wastebasket of "theology I could care less about and is unspiritual."

 

That is my concern...

That when those not scholars of the original texts read the postings where we get critical of MT Vrs CT etc

They lose their confidence in actually having a reliable Englsh Bible, as both sides say texts used were "inferior"

based on my knowledge in this area...

Regardless of which texts were used to translate into Modern versions...

Both texts have HIGH degree in common, NO major doctrines are affected one way or another based upon which text used, and good versions can come off either one!