Category: Bible Textual Integrity

  • Chap­ter 3 : The Canon of the New Testament

    CHAPTER III THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 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 into being ? Who col­lect­ed the writ­ings, and on what prin­ci­ples ?…

  • 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…

  • Were The Authors of the New Tes­ta­ment Inspired By God ?

    Were The Authors of the New Tes­ta­ment Inspired By God ?

    Chris­t­ian apol­o­gists in recent times try to prop­a­gate the idea that the Bible is the word of God, writ­ten by ​“inspired” scribes. Despite what they would like to believe, many dis­cov­er­ies, how­ev­er, refute this belief. Most of the books of the Bible are not known and is sim­ply attrib­uted to cer­tain authors which, when exam­ined,…

  • The Con­tro­ver­sy of I John 5:7 (Johan­nine Comma)

    The strongest ​“evi­dence” for the Trin­i­ty in the Bible is the verse 1 John 5:7 or oth­er­wise known as the ​‘Johan­nine Com­ma’. Unfor­tu­nate­ly for the Trini­tar­i­ans, it has long been known by schol­ars that it is not part of the orig­i­nal text. It was nev­er in the Greek man­u­scripts, but sur­faced in the Latin trans­la­tion in…

  • The Diates­saron And Its Con­flict With The New Tes­ta­ment Gospels

    The Diates­saron And Its Con­flict With The New Tes­ta­ment Gospels

    The purpose of this rebuttal is only to prove that the content of the Diatessaron is not the same as the current content in the New Testament gospels.

  • The Devel­op­ment of the Con­cept of ​“Scrip­ture” In The Ear­ly Chris­t­ian Church

    For the early Christians before the late 2nd century C.E., there was no such thing as an "Old" or "New" Testament as found in the modern-day Christian Bible today. The writers of the New Testament were basically unaware that they were producing writings equivalent to the status of "scripture".

  • How We Got the New Tes­ta­ment : His­toric­i­ty of Its Canonization

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi Three hun­dred years after the time of Jesus(P), there were many dif­fer­ent ver­sions of the Gospel sto­ry and the teach­ings of Jesus(P).[1] Then, as now, no one was quite cer­tain who wrote them, or when or where they were writ­ten. The teach­ings of the Chris­t­ian Church varies from one area to…

  • “Eli Eli lama sabach­tani”? A Look At The Gospel Records

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In two of the Syn­op­tic Gospels, Jesus (P) is depict­ed as cry­ing out on the cross ​“my God, my God, why hast thou for­sak­en me?”[1]. The Qur’an clear­ly pos­tu­lates that Jesus (P) was nev­er cru­ci­fied, and there­fore Mus­lims reject this ver­sion of the sto­ry men­tioned in the Syn­op­tics. Fur­ther­more, the Mus­lim…