Category: Bible Textual Integrity

  • On The Integrity of the Bible

    Before 1881, all translations of the New Testament (including, most importantly, the 1611 King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorised Version (AV)), were based on copies of Greek manuscripts known as the Textus Receptus, which is Latin for Received Text. (Abbreviated to TR). But in the 19th and 20th centuries, older Greek manuscripts…

  • The Spuriousness of So-Called Pauline Epistles Exemplified by the Epistle to the Galatians

    From the standpoint of the ordinary theology of the day it is a psychological riddle how the Paul of the Four Letters can have followed the historical Jesus at so short an interval. Pierson opened the eyes of Loman to this fact. It seemed to him that the developed Christianity of the community and the…

  • The Art of the Gospels: Theology as Fictional Narrative

    In the first century of the Common Era, there appeared at the eastern end of the Mediterranean a remarkable religious leader who taught the worship of one true God and declared that religion meant not the sacrifice of beasts but the practice of charity and piety an the shunning of hatred and enmity. He was…

  • Chapter 3: The Canon of the New Testament

    CHAPTER III THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENTReproduced from F.F. Bruce, “New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?” (2003) Even when we have come to a conclusion about the date and origin of the individual books of the New Testament, another question remains to be answered. How did the New Testament itself as a collection of…

  • Correction of Mark by Matthew and Luke

    Biblical scholars agree almost universally that Mark is our earliest gospel which was later used by Matthew and Luke as a major source. As Matthew and Luke used Mark, they made certain changes and alterations to its accounts. The alterations range from improving Mark’s grammar, smoothing Mark’s negative portrayal of the apostles, changing the order…

  • Luke’s Position As A Historian

    Some Christian apologists and missionaries cite A. N. Sherwin-White, who declared Luke to be a marvelous historian. “For Acts the confirmation of historicity is overwhelming…Any attempt to reject its basic historicity must now appear absurd. Roman historians have long taken it for granted.[1] White supports the accuracy of Lucan dating of the census. But what…