Should the late Dr. Bruce M. Metzger Be Applauded or Anathematized?

See, I'm not such a bad guy afterall.

 

If yall will endorse a few CHECKS for me I'll feel better.:wavey:

 

The subject of Dr. Metzger came up on another thread, so I thought I might as well connect it to this existing one.

In a tribute to Dr. Metzger, Daniel Wallace said:

"A search of Google will reveal a lot of venom directed against Dr. Metzger. To be sure, there are things on which many Christians will disagree with him. But on the essentials of the faith, it's hard to take issue with him. He was adamant about the diety of Christ and his bodily resurrection."

 

Point of clarification. John Piper is not a Reformed Baptist.

 

Why not list the views that are questionable, using quotes. All this generalization is mere gossip.

 

Still waiting for a specific list of questionable assertions pertaining to Dr. Metzger

 

Interesting necro'd thread...guess I wasn't around for the first time through...

Any one besmirching Dr Metzger for a lack of fidelity to the faith or "liberal leanings" likely didn't know Dr Metzger. He was a faithful man full of wisdom and care for others. His devotion to the Scriptures are, imho, unmatched in the textual critical world. Dr Metzger, while not an evangelical, was a fine Christian man.

Usually those who criticize his person and faith are those who are unfamiliar with his scholarship.

 

"believed Moses did not write the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy was not written until 700 years before Christ, the Old Testament is a mixture of “myth, legend, and history,” the record of the worldwide flood of Noah’s day is exaggerated, the book of Job is a folktale, the miracle accounts about Elijah and Elisha contain “legendary elements,” Isaiah was written by Isaiah plus two or three unknown men who wrote centuries later, the record of Jonah is a “legend,” Daniel does not contain supernatural prophecy, Paul did not write the Pastoral Epistles, Peter did not write 2 Peter, etc. All of these unbelieving lies can be found in the notes to the Reader’s Digest Condensed Bible, which were written by Metzger, and in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, of which Metzger is a co-editor. "http://www.wayoflife.org/database/wellsofinfidelity.html

 

Thanks Jordan, here is another link I came across,
http://www.gracembc.org/images/BM_METZGER.pdf

 

He believed a bunch of garbage

 

Correct! Piper is a charismatic, and does not hold to any of the Reformed confessions (specifically the 1689). That doesn't make him the devil incarnate, but it does disqualify him from being described as a R.B.

 

He is to be commended for being forthright. Many so-called Reformed Baptists likewise have issues with parts of the The Confession, yet still insist they 'hold' to it.

https://contrast2.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/is-john-piper-confessional/

 

How does one wake up one day, with what seems to be an illustrious academic career, and decide that they're going to work on the Readers Digest Condensed Bible?

 

Others had made condensed editions of the KJV many years earlier so the Readers Digest edition is not the first condensed Bible. If I recall correctly, one condensed edition of the KJV was printed in the 1700's.