The All-Access membership pass is the way to get to know the Bible through biblical archaeology. These two facts should be enough to get your mind thinking whether you have made a right judgement in your comment proving anything Godly about Christianity is bogus After a cursory review, I count eight mistakes in this little article. We simply dont know what to believe anymore!. What is his assessment? There are over 5,800 hand written New Testament manuscripts on record which predate the Guttenburg press. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. And remember this is a group of objective people, not just my own thoughts. These few differences between ancient codices dont call into question any doctrine of Christianity. Unless I am mistaken, I have not seen the book of Daniel in the codex sinaticus. The woman caught in adultery from John 8 is omitted in Codex Sinaiticus. As for the resurrection in Mark or not in Mark versus Sinaiticus..I think there are endless debates over the Long Ending and the Short Ending of Mark, with scholars evenly divided in their views. Those manuscripts used as originals in this business wore out very quickly, those used in worship or sold on for private devotions lasted longer, but not for centuries unless unused. Every true child of GOD knows it and cannot live without it. Fact is you choose to suppress it, and by doing so you distance yourself from the Grace of GOD. If this were true, the absence of resurrection in Mark would not be a problem because it appears in the older Matthean gospel. How is it that these ancient manuscripts lay forgotten (Siniaticus) or ignored (Vaticanus) for 1500 years or more? Also there are several copies of the book of Matthew written in Hebrew. You cant get any plalner than that. If Satan can place doubt about the word of God in mans head, he has the war half won It is by faith and faith alone we can be saved I have personally been transformed from a drunkard, dope head, and whoremonger, into a son of God by faith and our so called flawed KJV. The olympic hockey team that beat russia was given a talk by brooks in the locker room during the victory celebration. 4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. These . So it got past Mark 16:9, but I do not know for certain if it reached 16:20. These all have been traced (by liberal and conservative scholars alike) to a probable source in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 2nd or 3rd century. When you allow biased comments like this: Required fields are marked *. Dating to the mid-fourth century C.E., Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest complete manuscript of the New Testament. We can learn about the society where the ancient Israelites, and later Jesus and the Apostles, lived through the modern discoveries that provide us clues. Photo: Courtesy of St. Catherines Monastery. However, Sinaiticus itself is not relevant, since the evidence is very strong that it was produced in the 1800s, which is why it is in such incredible flexible, supple condition, and the Leipzig pages are white parchment, contra the chemistry of parchment aging.. Codex Sinaiticus Authenticity Research Im aware of no historical evidence that anything was erased and replaced. There are likely missing portions on the Codex because they added to the current texts in order to push their dogma and make it more palatable to those they wished to convert. I find it amazing that you all believe in this nonsense. Thanks in advance. That reading is also found in a few Old Latin mss of the Gospels. Have a look at Proverbs 30:4 I will always prefer the KJV with all its faults. omits verses with a multitude of documented quotes by the earliest Pre-Nicene Christians including converts of the Apostles Paul, Peter, and John; all of whom certainly has autograph versions of the New Testament books. In fact, a Syrian Bishop named Theodoret (397-457 AD) found 200 copies of it in his church and threw them out. the truth and power of God]. Of course I dont want to seem to imply that such inability to feel empathy is limited to Christians, Far from it. I do have several annotated scriptures myself and they are from several different groups or editors A favorite is the New Jerusalem Bible, if for no other reason, it includes the deutero-canonical books of the OT such as Maccabees and Ecclesiasticus. Not in Gods economy. . How is this negative? If anyone is interested, a good place to start is the work of Dr Cooper. Same guy that established the doctrine of the Trinity, btw. -Thus proving anything Godly about Christianity is bogus. Actually, the Christian apologist who says that BAR is wrong to point out the theological significance of omitting the ascension and the resurrection appearances in the corrupt Critical Text is himself naive. Who has gathered the wind in His fists? How do the >English< translations of Mark 16.1-14 match word for word in KJV and , yet don't in Matt 6.9-13? Rome couldnt get rid of all the Bibles which were being mass produced by the protestors the heretics as Rome branded them, so after a time they got busy by subversion and decided it would suit their purpose better if they worked to alter the Text of the Bible from within. Such a production line was slow and laborious and costly. In his article Hero or Thief? Here is your ticket to join us as we discover more and more about the biblical world and its people. In doctrines? How does it compare to the MSS? and unbelief is under Satan, who does not allow the truth and Just thinking,could the handwriting he analised? A court is not the appropriate place to prove or disprove the authenticity of old manuscripts. Undoubtedly! In the end I wonder,was this truly a omission,or could there be illness,war,fire or any other disasters?? The textus receptus was a shortened for of what was actually said Textum ergo habes, nun cab omnibus receptum, which can be translated as the [reader] now has the text that is received by all. So it wasnt that the text was recieved by anyone the translator was just telling everyone that THIS VERSION is the one that everyone should now use, and that was in 1633, a long time after the text was actually written by the authors. . Now we all know what we have been told about the manuscripts upon which the Textus Receptus was based: they were "The feeblest of manuscript resources" and "Late medieval manuscripts of inferior quality" and so forth.But this collides with what we see in John 6:65-7:16, where minuscule 4 has less corruption than Codex Sinaiticus. Space does not allow me point out the mutilation of Codex Vaticanus (B). My goodness it appears that the Word of God inerrant, unchanging has many versions, and that these versions do not agree with each other. Corrupt Path - The ' Minority Text' consists of only 5% of existing manuscripts . What is His name, and what is His Sons name? Is it? And now there are Christians in every country on earth just as Jesus commanded his disciples to do. 8 years of Archaeology Odyssey online, exploring the ancient roots of the Western world in a scholarly and entertaining way, The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. are parchment, or vellum, codices. As Jeff said, you guys are confused about Mark 1:41. The King James Version is taken from the Textus Receptus while the American Standard Version is taken from the Critical Text. To believers (in whatever version they *like* ?) Why not do an article as well featuring Whats included in Codex Sinaiticus which includes Jesus exalted position in Revelation, being referenced as the Son of God in many other parts of the gospels, the fact that Mark leaves with someone announcing Jesus resurrection, the fact that all 4 gospels and Pauls letters are there (all of which clearly spell out Jesus deity and identity as Risen Lord)and all of this from the 4th centuryand when compared to other manuscripts and documents from early church fathers, the Codex Sinaiticus only further confirms that early Christians viewed Jesus as God? The manuscript has what is now considered the beginning of v. 55 and ending of v. 56 (rem: versification was added in 1551): But he turned and rebuked them. But if that were so, how could they be so different? Then that history was erased, and replaced with the gosple account agreeable to the era? The question is not : How many manuscripts predate the Guttenberg Bible? From the epistles we find the basic Christian beliefs: Christ is the Son of God and His resurrection etc. Codex Vaticanus, gathering dust in the Vatican library since the 1500s and Codex Sinaiticus, rescued from a trash can in St. Catherines monasteryused by Westcott and Hort to rewrite the KJV. Dig into more than 9,000 articles in the Biblical Archaeology Societys vast library plus much morewith an All-Access pass. Who knew the reliability of their manuscrips than the monks at St Caherines? http://www.sinaiticus.net/, Sinaiticus authentic antiquity or modern? This debate has been going on for centuries and likely there will always be disagreements as to which is closer to the original Greek autographs. Jesus was hauled before Pilate for the Jewish religious Elite wanted Him dead, because they charged Jesus with blaspemy. In it we are given this assurance: The green grass dries up, the blossom withers, but the word of our God endures forever. (Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 1:25) The version known as the Peshitta plays a humble but important role in the accurate transmission of the Bibles message to all of humanity And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Since then, many editions of the Greek New Testament have been published. But I can tell you this; I use the King James Bible because 99% of all the manuscript evidence supports the Textus Receptus that underlies it. The only Greek manuscript with that reading is the bilingual Codex Bezae (D/05) from the V century. Most early English translations came from the critical version of this called Textus Receptus. Thanks hope i will learn alot in this websiteBut i want to ask who translated The Amplified bible version? The story of John 7 is missing in the Codex S. But in other manuscripts it appears. However, this addition does not appear in the oldest Greek manuscripts. Codex Sinaiticus (A) Codex Sinaiticus discovered from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai 1844. Video lectures from world-renowned experts. Jews and Muslims to this day consider the destruction of their holy book to be a terrible sin, so Christian monks realising that they had a very misleading copy of the Bible on their hands would most likely act for the same reasons as I and in just the same way that I did.That very easily and practically explains Siniaticus and the explanation for Vaticanus is similar. Mystery Babylon that the apostle John writes of in the Unveiling of Christ (Revelation). Thats pretty much identical to the late, great Chuck Smiths (founder of the Calvary Chapel movement) opinion. There is nothing when and how Mary Magdalena saw the Risen Christ, indicating, of course, it never happened. It dismays me, sincerely. Just like the serpent was doing the devils dirty work in the Garden of Eden where God walked and talked with our first parents, (and conquered for a time), so too the devil has had his agents working to subvert and pervert Scripturelittle by little, line by line, here a little there a little over many centuries. How come these two were preserved when many thousands of others were not? Finally, I have one suggestion, as I close. No one was copying the thought in ant way, it now was a part of each hearers memory and as such will be changed a bit by each hearer. Galatians 4:6. My mistake 2 Cor 13:14 is in the CS. Some of them date back to just 60-70 years from the original manuscript! Now, I said all that to simply say this - There is a very noticeable and contradictory statement found in Acts 19:16. . almost a millionaireAnd so if my little stash is diminshed little by little who will care? Thanks to the comment by Frank, now I am seeing where the Oneness BS concept is being derived from. Modern scholarship generally holds that Mark is in fact the oldest of the Synoptic Gospels, which could cause theological concerns over the omitted resurrection. terrible things draw near. We know the Catholics hated the Bible then and even today. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. The KJV is familiar to most of us so naturally we prefer the familiar, but to place it on par with the original Greek manuscripts of the bible seems sacrilegious. Most of the epistles are written before the gospels. Until the late 1800s, the Textus Receptus, or the "received text," was the foremost Greek text from which the New Testament was derived. Surely you know. Pilate was used to trouble makers in Judea and he saw and heard a lot of phony messiahs, and many of those were armed to the teeth to try and get rid of Romes power base in Judea. Your email address will not be published. Each of these three codices "clearly exhibits a fabricated text - is the result of arbitrary and reckless recension." . Subsequent scholarship has generally rejected the notion of a Neutral text but (still has Ed) sustained the rejection of the Syrian text. -( source http://www.revisedstandard.net/text/WNP/id_3.html) (Ed is my remark to clarify). Both the Codex and the KJV Greek manuscripts show the diety of Yeshua in different ways! And why do we humans who take such pride in our organizational and community identities save in one kind of organization or community seem to save their harshest rebukes for each other for that matter, in this case Protestants against Catholics and vice versa? (If youd like to learn something about the ending of Mark in Codex Sinaiticus, by the way, I have some research about that I would gladly share. This is also the text that agrees with more than 95% of the Bible Manuscripts in Koine (common) Greek. One needs to study the various Codices and again ask why have certain critical aspects like (1) Jesus Christ being part of the Godhead, or (2) that we are saved only through Jesus Christ and his blood atoning sacrifice for our sins, have been changed or completely left out? power of God to prevail over the unclean things of the spirits [or: This use of parchment as the leading writing material continued for almost a thousand years until it was replaced by paper. When I have tried this really no one had remembered what had been said. Hopefully their path will lead to righteousness worthy of Almighty Gods approval. Go read the 18th chapter. Thanks. What does it say? BTW, the Pericope de Adultera (John 8:1 ff) was preserved in the Western canon for a thousand years before it was introduced to the Greek and Syriac canons. In Jesus Name. As a whole picture this breadth of 5,800 manuscripts agree with the gospel account. The Textus Receptus is the text which the King James translators used. Other versions like the Codex Sinaiticus have but one or two manuscripts, so despite the age and missing content versus the KJV Bible, one needs to only weigh the odds of which versions seems likely to be more correct. The term of years of Satans power has been fulfilled, but other This is the cause of the surprise of the British Library staff, who are acknowledged world class experts in handling such manuscripts. Read Edward F. Hills Believing Bible Study. I had/have a New World translation in my home with all the incorporated mistranslations driven by theological ideology. And then when I read a modern version of the Bible (derived from the Westcott and Hort revisions) I never experience this power or anything like it at all??? Here is Matthew 16:14. There were several English translations published long before the KJV; to wit, Coverdale bible (1535), Matthews bible, (1537) The Great bible, (1539) Geneva Bible, (1560) Bishops Bible, (1568), et al. A piece here and a piece there but no even close to a complete speach. things contrary to their beliefs, just might be a gloss or the real thing. I dont know the history in exact of my great grand parents,how would we know ever about 400 generations ago. I went to a lecture give by Dr Cooper on this subject, and his evidence and the surprised response of the British Library staff at the youthful condition of the manuscripts, was very compelling. The consequences of all this are serious and are far reachiing for the future of the Church.. In addition, I dont think Id ever forget them, because theyre life changing. These manuscripts agree together 95% of the time. And our excuse.? This is a famous variant in the mss, but Codex Sinaiticus attests compassion, not anger. A footnote on #46 above: Besides the New World Translation, the others were The Amplified New Testament, The Living Bible, The New American Bible With Revised New Testament, New American Standard Bible, The Holy BibleNew International Version, The New Revised Standard Version, The Bible in Todays English Version, and King James Version. Theres accountability to the record. I am just saying. Textus Receptus (Latin: "received text") refers to all printed editions of the Greek New Testament from Erasmus's Novum Instrumentum omne (1516) to the 1633 Elzevir edition. Matthew 24/37 are you sure and how sure you are? The catholic church is a Roman institution of anti-Christ idolatry. http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200270815, BAR, you are supposed to be a scholarly magazine. In 2003 he published a 200-page study of nine of the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world.* His study examined several passages of Scripture that are controversial, for that is where bias is most likely to interfere with translation. For each passage, he compared the Greek text with the renderings of each English translation, and he looked for biased attempts to change the meaning. WHAT IS HIS SONS NAME? https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102007409#h=22:2-23:524https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102007409#h=22:2-23:524. re 17.
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