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Idx: Textual Criticism

Posted by David Cox on October 12, 2022
Posted in index • Textual Criticism 

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Textual Criticism – refers to the linguistic science of evaluating differ manuscripts of a work (usually ancient work) and variants within that work. Amanuscript is a single copy of the work or a portion of the work. A variant is when comparing two manuscripts of the same passage of the same work, there is some kind of difference in spelling, words, word order, extra or missing words. The rules of textual criticism are usually established in reference to ancient works and are not much different between secular works and religious works.

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Oct 22

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Idx: Divine Authority in Scriptures

Posted by David Cox on October 12, 2022
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Divine Authority

The issue of divine authority is strongly attacked by liberals and others. The issue revolves around the simple point, if God did not really give us the Bible, then it has no authority. A secondary issue comes into play, if the Bible is not really inspired, then errors exist in it, and it has no confidence nor authority for us. The motive of people attacking the Bible in this way is to remove the divine authority from Scripture. Since these people are not “big enough” to go against God “nose to nose” sort of speak, they destroy the authority inherent in Scripture, and that causes them to escape its wrath for disobeying it. The entire issue of Divine Authority in Scripture is not really, whether God inspired the Bible or not, but evil people who do not want to accept what God has said in it. Read more

Oct 22

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Idx: Bible Versions and Translations

Posted by David Cox on October 6, 2022
Posted in index • Versions-Translations 

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Translation – The Bible was originally given to man in Hebrew (the Old Testament) with a very few parts in Aramaic, and Greek (the New Testament). Any Bible manuscript (book) that is not in these languages is a translation. Within one single language, there many be various differentversions in that language, some emphasizing one particular principle of translation over another (one very literal even at the expense of not being so understandable or conversational, another very easily understood and conversational but not very literal and true to the original texts).

KJV Translators – Preface to 1611 version  (a) 196K (14 pages)

I personally use and recommend the KJV Bible. But I am not a crazy about it, placing it as an authority above and beyond any criticism at all. It is a version, a translation, and no translation is entirely accurate to the original language it is translated from. Those who maintain that the Greek and Hebrew need to be corrected from the KJV are exalting a version above copies of Scriptures that are much more closer to the originals than ANY English version.

Having said that to clarify my position a bit, I would like to recommend Maxey’s site that evaluates various different versions of the English Bible [KJV,NIV, RSV, Living Bible, New World Translation (JWs), NASB, ASV]. I feel it is a little more realistic (i.e. read not knocking anything that is not KJV), and deals with valid considerations in each Bible evaluated.

Dozens of versions (in various languages)
http://bible-researcher.com/versions.html

NIV – New International Version

Cammenga – KJV vs. NIV – Which Bible?
Anderson, Allen – History and Comparison of English Bible Translations Currently in Print (2006)





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Oct 22

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Idx: Bible Study Methods

Posted by David Cox on October 2, 2022
Posted in Bible Study Methods • index 

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Study Methods – These are the methods, plans, systems, and practices that students of Scripture use to study the Bible.

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