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The lack of faith required to believe God would permit corruption of His Word warrants questioning why believe in Him at all.
If God couldn't preserve His Word from such corruption, neither can He preserve us from eternal corruption.
I am a critical thinker. I have seen the arguments for variant readings and have concluded they are violations of Occam's razor, from the ground up mere speculation.
If there was anything scientific about the process the "correct text" would have been produced long ago. Instead, every year new permutations are produced.
When the numbers never add up one must question the assumptions behind the numbers, as it appears they aren't right.
Paul preached in the Byzantine Churches. The Bible they preserved is the correct text. Faithful copies were made as time and wear required it. Whereas, corrupt error ridden copies ended up being preserved by non-use.
Therefore, the premise "older is better" is simply wrong. The evidence bears this out. The internal consistency of the Byzantine text is well above 90%, while the other texts agree with each other and the Byzantine at far less percentages. That clearly implies they are error ridden.
Moreover, if we calculate according to the figurative language used by Christ (jot, tittle = smallest meaning), and not look at spelling, word order (which doesn't affect meaning) and diacritical marks, I consider the scripture is 100% consistent, therefore "true". Not the smallest meaning (that will be fulfilled) has been lost:
"For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. (Matt. 5:18 NKJ)
If God couldn't preserve His Word from such corruption, neither can He preserve us from eternal corruption.
I am a critical thinker. I have seen the arguments for variant readings and have concluded they are violations of Occam's razor, from the ground up mere speculation.
If there was anything scientific about the process the "correct text" would have been produced long ago. Instead, every year new permutations are produced.
When the numbers never add up one must question the assumptions behind the numbers, as it appears they aren't right.
Paul preached in the Byzantine Churches. The Bible they preserved is the correct text. Faithful copies were made as time and wear required it. Whereas, corrupt error ridden copies ended up being preserved by non-use.
Therefore, the premise "older is better" is simply wrong. The evidence bears this out. The internal consistency of the Byzantine text is well above 90%, while the other texts agree with each other and the Byzantine at far less percentages. That clearly implies they are error ridden.
Moreover, if we calculate according to the figurative language used by Christ (jot, tittle = smallest meaning), and not look at spelling, word order (which doesn't affect meaning) and diacritical marks, I consider the scripture is 100% consistent, therefore "true". Not the smallest meaning (that will be fulfilled) has been lost:
"For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. (Matt. 5:18 NKJ)
The Majority Text: Divine Preservation and Christian Reason | End Time News
Many believers have been deceived; they have been made to question if Christ's words are accurate: "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. (Matt. 5:18 NKJ) Literal Jots and titles have no meaning
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