The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture by Bart Ehrman

isn't his basic premise pretty flawed though, as even he would have to admit that essential MOST if not ALL of the current NT Greek texts are essential what was originally written?

that he strains at a small minority of varient readings, and focred to swallow and admit still almost all of it is as God originally wrote it?

 

Is this a regional ETS paper? Or is this for the big conference coming up in a few weeks???

Found some punctuation mistakes btw if you are still proofreading.

 

Johnathan, thanks very much I will read it tonight. I'm very interested in researching all I can about Erhman. I have a great book on how he is misguided:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1433501430/?tag=baptis04-20

Have you ever read this work? If not I encourage you to get it.:thumbs:

 

It's a good step in the right direction for a basis of continued studies. Ehrman is a significant figure who continues to need scholarly refutation.

The text which Sola mentioned is exactly the one I was sitting thinking about as I read through the piece. The underlying thesis which Ehrman operates with, from von Harnack et al, is thoroughly investigated and given a sound drubbing.

For Ehrman's specific works, I think of another text called Misquoting Truth by Timothy Paul Jones (who is on faculty at Southern): http://www.amazon.com/dp/0830834478/?tag=baptis04-20

Dan Wallace has really shown, in live debates, the insanity of Ehrman's requirements for a text. Essentially (which you can find this data in video format) Ehrman wants a first century text that is 99.9995% (or something insane) accurate to other manuscripts in order to be convinced. Wallace has called him out for this, which is like saying "I want to see an intact dinosaur that has been preserved in total in amber without any significant decay in order to believe in them." That is an effective line of critique.

It is rather good and reinforces a lot of your points. What would be interesting is to see how one takes the empirical data and evidences which are exploited by Ehrman and then line them up with the guiding presupposition of him and others like Pagels and such.

Please do let us know when the whole paper is up. I wish I could make it to ETS, but alas I have other priorities...(i.e. vacation.)