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Not first hand. There is info about it on the Internet. It is one of several so-called 'sacred names' Bibles. They are basically the KJV text with Jewish spelt proper names (and often some other edits). I collect English editions of the New Testament/Bible of the 20th Century if you ever are...

Actually, recently I have discovered some information that may indicate that there were TWO paschal meals: one on the 14th and one on the 15th in Jerusalem. It is unclear to me at this time whether the observance was divided geographically (Galilean and Judean) or sectarian (Sadducee and...

They can be seen here -- http://samgipp.com/answerbook

Unfortunately, I think the answer may be that very few people are interested in reading the Bible today, and even fewer care how to pronounce the words correctly.

Notice he doesn't write TR, he writes about the "RT".

It is not clear what you would accept as "proof". You have mentioned eyewitnesses before as "proof", but there are certainly no surviving eyewitnesses of many historic things which today we would accept as fact (even though eyewitnesses can also be untrustworthy). Nonetheless, I will place some...

Yes, if the words or word order is simply a different construction for English. But the words "of God" missing from 1 John 5:12 in the AV1611 are not the result of re-arrangement or words offered as clarification for English comprehension (they are not italicized).

This is a half-false conclusion. PROBLEM#1: Jesus, Paul, and the Apostlolic writers quote many verses; you do not know that they are all quotes from "a" single source. More likely, they actually represent multiple "versions". PROBLEM#2: An accurate translation of a single verse (or even...

Agreed. They were still chaining the Bible to the church podium in the 16th century because most folks didn't have a personal one.

My position is certainly not completely based upon the use of parchment or vellum. But even a complete papyrus NT would have been quite large; notice I previously mentioned that they were hand written (generally much larger lettering than modern 'large print') in only capital letters. In...

The time period under discussion was the 1st century (originally stated by Mexdeaf: "None of them possessed a complete copy of the New Testament..."). I expanded the argument that a complete canonical NT in a single volume was probably not accomplished until sometime after 200AD (and even then...

Yes, but I didn't say that the NT was never written on papyrus. In fact, the earliest copies were likely on papyrus. These were typically scrolls of a single work; but there are some surviving papyrus codices (but none that would have had the complete NT). Most early MSS are the remains of...

You and I have been very clear that we were questioning a "complete" NT. BTW, does anyone appreciate how impractical a complete NT codex would have been in the 1st century? At that time the Greek alphabet consisted of only 'capital' letters (minuscules would come much later); when handwritten...

Oh c'mon, you are placing yourself into the ridiculous position that if you cannot "know" something (like the 1st century churches did NOT have a complete canonical NT) drawn from available facts, then you cannot "know" anything (for example, you can't "know" that there wasn't a flying pig with...

Well, in light of historical facts that is an extraordinarily safe statement. I don't know who you think you are disagreeing with, since I never said that. The issue under discussion was essentially: When did complete canonical NT codices come into existence? There is NO evidence that I know of...

And where are your precise copies of that Laodicean epistle today?

Actually, Revelation (and some other canonical books like 2 Peter, for example) remained OUT of many gatherings of Greek scriptures for decades. It only takes one missing book to make a collection "incomplete". You may doubt and you may imagine, but this a subject I have read extensively...

Neither the KJV rendering nor the ESV rendering are in error; both are 100% accurate. The latter rendering is less specific however.

If John's Apocalypse was not written until about 90AD then it would near impossible for any 1st century churches to have a complete canonical New Testament; considering the 'technology' available for publishing and distribution at the time it would have been a tremendous feat to construct even a...

1 John 5:12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son . . . hath not life. (AV 1611, with modern spelling) He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (currently published KJVs)