<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Rev. 22 18, 19
For I tesitfy unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall ADD unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall TAKE AWAY from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, things which are written in this book, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Do these verses apply to the last 6 verses of Revelation where there are almost 20 Greek words in the TR and hence KJV that have NO Greek manuscript support? There are nine such errors in these two verses alone.
This problem occurred because Erasmus back translated these verses from the Latin Vulgate because he had no Greek manuscript of those verses. They are clear errors in the Greek text underlying the KJV and those with English equivalents made their way into the KJV. In other words, you of necessity must believe that God added to his word in the early 1500s because there is no evidence that these readings ever existed before that.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Verses taken out of the NIV, NASV, NKJV, RSV, NRSV, NCV, and the LIV.
Matt 17:21, Matt 18:11, Matt 23:14, Mark 7:16, Mark 9:44, Mark 9:46, Mark 11:26, Mark 15:28, Mark 16:9-20, Luke 23:17, John 5:4, acts 8:37, Acts 15:34, Acts 28:29, Rom 16:24.
Just to name a few. There are so many more. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Actually, the evidence points to the fact that many of these verses were
added to the TR through the years. The MVs did not delete anything. Any so called deletion has adequate textual support as a look at Metzger's
Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament will show.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I don't believe that God allowed the English speaking people to have a translation and then 400 years later God says, "Oops, I forgot to add some things I will allow new transcripts to be found". <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This doesn't make a lot of sense. You seem to have to say that God allowed his word to take one form for 7-800 years and then caused words and verses to be added to it in the 7-15th century. In other words, a good case (though not perfect) can be made that the TR and MajT contain words and verses that the early church never had.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>And by the way I looked in my dictionary and guess what, the words, Thee, Thou are in there if you need the definition maybe you should look in your Websters. Although my 4 year old knows what they mean without looking.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I looked in my NASB95 and found I didn't need a dictionary for them. In the first century, God used the common language of the people. All through church history God used the common language ... that is up until the 20th century where suddenly some want to tell us that God uses an out-dated language. It is no wonder that some people think God does not matter in the 21st century. If he did, surely he would speak our language.
[ September 04, 2001: Message edited by: Pastor Larry ]
[ September 04, 2001: Message edited by: Pastor Larry ]
