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I like listening to Dr. Dan Wallace speak. In this video he addresses the issue stated in the title of this thread.
He states that no essential Christian belief is jeopardized by any viable variant in the New Testament manuscripts. By the way, Bart Ehrman agrees with this. At 41:47 into the video Dr. Wallace quotes what Dr. Ehrman stated in the Appendix of the paperback version of his book 'Misquoting Jesus.' Ehrman states, ''Essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.''
The material in this presentation of Dr. Wallace is largely the same as in his speech in the video in the OP since the subject is, ''Is what we have now what they wrote then'', but he provides some information which is not in the first. Plus there is a good question/answer session during the last 26 minutes of the session.
"Turn an age into an eternity, create an eternal hell of pain and suffering; and reduce salvation to only a few, must have been the truth from the beginning?"
Mike is quite right: 99% of the variants do not change the meaning of the text. The fly in the ointment is that pesky 1%.
You are misquoting what I wrote in the OP. And you are misquoting Dr. Wallace. I did not say that 99% of the variants do not change the meaning of the text but that there is a pesky 1% of the variants that do. Those are your words. Not mine. Even Bart Ehrman agrees that ''Essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.''
You are misquoting what I wrote in the OP. And you are misquoting Dr. Wallace. I did not say that 99% of the variants do not change the meaning of the text. Even Bart Ehrman agrees that ''Essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.''
so I guess it was ok then for the RCC to have added interpolations of things not in the original manuscripts. eek gad.
I guess it was alright for them to do this as it lined up with what they believed.
oh wait a minute the lying pen of the scribes did the same thing to the laws of Moses. I guess that was ok to.
While the story about the adulterous woman may not have originally been in John's gospel, it has all the ring of historical veracity and was probably a part of the oral tradition.
The Bible knowledge Commentary states that most commentators believe the event to be historical, and that the story is an authentic tradition about Jesus.
F. F. Bruce agrees with this. Quoting Bruce M. Metzger (the bolded part), he writes,
''Whatever textual problems are raised by this passage, 'the account has all the earmarks of historical veracity'. We may safely recognize the incident as taking place in the temple precincts during Holy Week, a companion piece to those which are related in Mark 12:13-34, and especially to the incident of the tribute money.'' [The Gospel of John, F. F. Bruce, p. 417]
While the story about the adulterous woman may not have originally been in John's gospel, it has all the ring of historical veracity and was probably a part of the oral tradition.
The Bible knowledge Commentary states that most commentators believe the event to be historical, and that the story is an authentic tradition about Jesus.
F. F. Bruce agrees with this. Quoting Bruce M. Metzger (the bolded part), he writes,
''Whatever textual problems are raised by this passage, 'the account has all the earmarks of historical veracity'. We may safely recognize the incident as taking place in the temple precincts during Holy Week, a companion piece to those which are related in Mark 12:13-34, and especially to the incident of the tribute money.'' [The Gospel of John, F. F. Bruce, p. 417]
Oh I don't deny this, but even if this passage were removed, it wouldn't change the core tenants of Christianity or any doctrines. That's all I was saying.
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