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 writ­ings come…

  • 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 of…

  • 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 is…