how SHOLD Evangelicals View the process of OT texts Transmission?

[Greektim]

would it be the equivalent to saying that Luke used various sources to write his Gosple, and that he edited down what he wanted to record, under inspiration of the HS?

So in same fashion, Moses would have wrote down the bulk of first 5 books, and he used oral and written sorces, added in his own, under inspired of the HS?

Again, comparing OT w/ the NT. You are making a comparison of Moses that is completely impossible on the human level (don't forget the Bible is a human product as much as it is a divine one; much like the hypostatic union). I am not saying Moses edited himself, although I'm sure he did. He definitely used sources and oral traditions. What I am saying is that later redactions and editions of the Torah probably took place AFTER the Babylonian exile. So Moses is not the only author of the Torah.

 

[DaChaser1]

Although it may indeed be the last inspired canonical book, such an assertion is not only difficult if not impossible to prove but also cannot negate the equally strong assertion that certain inspired authorities, I mean under the direct guidance of God himself through the Holy Spirit, got together in a back room somewhere and with perhaps faulty copies of works already in circulation they used their collective "remembrance of all things" to correct, adjust, perfect, compile those now deficient copies until the final letter-perfect edition of all 27 books was complete, and then in the spirit of their Jewish upbringing, they chanted to one another in their spirits, "If this really be of God it will prevail, and if of men it will fail." And with that they thrust this onto the church, and people are still debating to this day the legitimacy of that authoritative but unseen TESTAMENT that was forced onto the church.

Apostle John was LAST individual with inspiration from the lord though!

Godcould have been involved in the editing down to the best copy of the originals, but the original authores of the tet would have had the boooks written down, and ONLY what we know as being the best copy for us today would have canonozed by those 'compilers" but originals that authors made were NOT ones they touched!

 

[DaChaser1]

Again, comparing OT w/ the NT. You are making a comparison of Moses that is completely impossible on the human level (don't forget the Bible is a human product as much as it is a divine one; much like the hypostatic union). I am not saying Moses edited himself, although I'm sure he did. He definitely used sources and oral traditions. What I am saying is that later redactions and editions of the Torah probably took place AFTER the Babylonian exile. So Moses is not the only author of the Torah.

Think that we have to also understand that we are discussing the canonical COPIES that were received as being inspired by God, so IF you mean that those compilers/editors do as scholars do today when they use various
docs.manuscripts etc top put together what they view as being most accurate best 'copy" of ewhat was originally written...

Same way, the original manuscripts were complete and inspired, bu the best 'copies" to us of them were redited/complied afterwards?

 

[jonathan.borland]

A prophet with the sanction of the Holy Spirit is free to do as the Holy Spirit bids with the intellectual property of the Holy Spirit!