Incredible information.
Over the past 30 years or so, I studied religions, and was always, even last week, confronted with textual Criticism proving the manuscripts of the NT as unreliable.
The so called “Facts” is that we do not have the original manuscripts, and what we have, only date from 300 years after Christ. Actually, we do have partial manuscripts that dates from 100 year upward after Christ’s ascension, but there is no way one can convince the Bible criticizer that these copies are the true re written replacements on the original Gospels by the hands of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Furthermore, there are constructed accusations against the Gospels where it is said that there was a “Q” source for the writings of Matthew and Luke, and that Mark was written first where Matthew and Luke actually critique Mark. Even if there isnot a single manuscript discovered to give credence to this claim.
The above "Textual critisizm" claim concludes that the Christians do not have any authenticated manuscripts, and that a lot of changing and assumptions were introduced into the Gospels by Christians to deify Jesus, making the NT questionable.
In this regard, the Christian religion is just as questionable as the scriptures they adhere too. Compare this with the Quran and the Gospels are not in a better situation such as an Allah who "Protected" his revelations,
Bible criticizers creates the imagery that the Christian New Testament is one huge concoction where its Authors are unknown, the writers of the Gospels are confused, and many changes was introduced into the Gospels resulting in so many variants, or “Versions” in the New Testament.
Sad to say, I have to agree on the current evidence, it is partially true!
Lets see what I learned.
Today we have only 2 different New Testaments. (We have numerous NT translations, versions and many more personalised Bibles each carrying their own copurights as if God's Word can be copyrighted by some translator of the NT.
One set of Manuscripts is known through the King James version, the Texus Receptus which is named the Byzantium family (F35), the other is known as the New International translation and al the other “New” translations we see today belonging to the Alexandrian family of manuscripts known as the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. (There are actually 4 families of NT manuscripts, but we will stay with the Byzantium and Alexandrean families, for the others are very small or even represented by the 2 bigger ones.)
This weekend I bought myself a KJVER sword bible, and I found an article that stunned me to my soul!
“In 2008, Dr. Wilbur N. Pickering (Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary in Greek Exegesis, Ph.D. University of Toronto in Linguistics) discovered
colophons in numerous ancient manuscripts that contained the Gospels.”
Here is the article link:
http://www.standardbearers.net/uplo...ptic_Problem_Dr_Floyd_Nolen_Jones_ThD_PhD.pdf
Guess what is a Colophon?
It is the Author’s name, and the date when he “published” his book. This is found at the end of the Book, and not as we have it today at the beginning.
Sort of the signature of the author!
And, just take a moment to comprehend what they found!
John was published 32 Years after the ascension. = Making this book published and signed off in 62AD
Luke 15 Years after the ascension =45AD
Mark 10 Years = 40AD and
Matthew 8 years = 38 AD.
Guys, this is something incredible if true.
The Apostles SIGNED THEIR WORK OFF AND WROTE A DATE ON THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION!
Then I realised something I suspected throughout all my studies.
These Colophon’s were all found in the
Texus Receptus manuscripts (Byzantium), which is the ones we know as the
King James Version!
Now, why I never learned about the above is a worrying factor. Does our Christian apologists know about this?
Anyway, I now have evidence that the Authors of the Gospels are the ones it is named as such.
And the dates of the NT was between 8 years to 32 Years after Jesus ascended into heaven.
And that the King James version is the true Word of God.
And lastly, the Authors of the Gospels signed their work off in person.
All the other manuscripts with all those terrible errors are mere secondary copies of what the Christians today have in their hands.
I forwarded this post to the Dalas seminar through a close friend to RD Wallace, who collects digital photos of all the Greek manuscripts to confirm what I learned is not just some bit of fake news. If there is anyone here that can elaborate, please do so.
Haleluja!
