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Agreed Behold.
It sounds like you know something we don’t-was there something about how the Bible came into existence that really surprised/shocked you? Care to share more about it?
Agree.
Do you understand why the KJV has no notification for John 5:4?
agree whole heartedly.. I still prefer the new king james version (a perversion to the KJVO crowed). only because I have used it all my life and am used to it.. But with the exception of a few.. Any bible can give us the word
You could tell me why....
but how do you know when you hear from God? How can you test what you hear?This came up on another topic. Seemed to be worth its own topic.
Understanding the difference between the SOURCE and a RESOURCE.
God should be our SOURCE. Everything else is a RESOURCE. (including the Bible)
Source:
- God
Resources:
- The Bible
- Commentaries
- Preachers/teachers
- Other believers
- Unbelievers (listen)
Source or Resource? - Understanding the difference
This came up on another topic. Seemed to be worth its own topic. Understanding the difference between the SOURCE and a RESOURCE. God should be our SOURCE. Everything else is a RESOURCE. (including the Bible) Source: - God Resources: - The Bible - Commentaries - Preachers/teachers -...www.christianityboard.com
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Right.
I just went through the book of John in my mend bible study, As I was putting my discussion together for John 5, I came across that verse, In studying, May do not believe God actually sent an angel to this body of water to heal people. that would be cruel of Godm why did he not just heal everyone. They actually think it was something else going on. That there was this belief an angel come. but that it was not true.
Anybody besides me appreciate the irony of someone who posts reams of opinions about what he thinks the Bible says telling people not to listen to what others think the Bible says?Somebody said:
What the church had claimed and what the study of where the Bible came from stood in sharp contrast.
100% spot on
Nothing wrong here-guess we are in agreement on this.What the church had claimed and what the study of where the Bible came from stood in sharp contrast.
We don't have the originals.
"It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but we don’t have the original documents that Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, and other New Testament writers wrote. They were originally written on either papyrus (essentially paper) or possibly parchment (animal skins) which have long since degraded with time and use. However, the originals were copied many, many times. Those copies were copied, which were copied, which were copied, which were…
Well, you get the idea.
So what we have are copies of copies of the original (sometimes many generations of copying deep). Before Gutenberg invented the printing press in the early-mid 1400s, everything was copied by hand. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the scribes who did the copying occasionally made some mistakes.
When two copies disagree with each other, you have a variant in the text between two documents: this is (unsurprisingly) called a “Textual Variant”.
Clever, right? " --- Source below ---
Majority Text vs. Critical Text vs. Textus Receptus – Textual Criticism 101
Majority Text vs. Critical Text vs. Textus Receptus - Textual Criticism 101 - Berean Patriot
There are three major competing Greek sources to use for translating the New Testament: the Critical Text, the Majority Text, and the Textus Receptus. The science of assembling these manuscripts is called “Textual Criticism”, and you can consider this a complete Textual Criticism 101 article...www.bereanpatriot.com
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That is essentially correct.
