The position is, the text of the autographs has been preservated, even if one's selected text is mistaken.
As I have asked many times where is this text of the autographs? Which line of transmission M5, M6, M7 or perhaps some non byzantine line. You have held onto the idea that Pickering has recovered the autographs but I have shown you in post # 245 that Dr Maurice Robinson points to a number of lines even in the byzantine text type.
For one to say we have recovered the text of the autographs is the height of hubris. Are we close, yes I think we are but we still have questions as to which is the correct text. As Dr Robinson said, within a text family they will say they have 99% but overall he places it at 94% when you consider the manuscripts available from the various lines of transmission.
From video # 2
Is the Byzanine text the Closest?
0:00 do you believe that the byzantine text
0:02 form that you and william has produced
0:04 is like the closest that we have to the
0:06 original text yes that simple answer
0:09 there easy answer the thing is though
0:11
you have to keep an account that all
0:14 texts whether the critical texts or
0:16 others that are published all of them
0:18 are going to
0:19 agree at approximately from my own
0:22 estimate comparing the nestle text with
0:24 the byzantine at approximately 94
0:28 of exact identity we're only talking
0:31 about a six percent level of difference
0:34 between the critical text and the
0:36 byzantine text so in that regard i do
0:39 think that the byzantine text is the
0:41 closest within that six percent for the
0:43 other 94 were already in agreement i've
0:46 heard that number you know people often
How do you get your percentage of agreement?
0:48 say you know the manuscripts are 99
0:50 and you're saying 96 and and some people
0:53 have said 98. what i did i compared
0:55 directly the nestle 27th edition with
0:58 the robinson pierpont 2005 byzantine
1:01 tech which edition also has all of the
1:04 nestle 27 variants in its footnote and
1:06 so by counting those and calculating
1:09 according to the number of total words
1:10 in the new testament that's where the 94
1:12 percent identity comes from okay gotcha
1:15 now those who say 99
1:17 that is usually based on theory for
Those who say 99
1:19 example if someone holds to the eclectic
1:22 theory that underlies the nestle 27 text
1:25 they may say that the text is 99 certain
1:28 for them
1:30 for my own practical purposes i would
1:32 say that the byzantine text is 99
1:35 certain except for those very small
1:37 number of variant units where the
1:39 byzantine text is itself sharply divided
1:42 it depends on theory who holds a theory
1:44 will say well my theory will lead me to
1:47 99 certainty and this would even be for
1:49 the people that hold the tr because you
1:52 say which tr and they're going to say
1:54 well it doesn't matter because they're
1:55 all 99 certain things right