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<blockquote data-quote="Modus" data-source="post: 1461350" data-attributes="member: 7666"><p>There is an article on my forum about the reliablity of the scriptures. Rest assured that the bible is extremely close to the exact words of the original authors.</p><p> </p><p> actually about 45 years. And yes, out of the 24,000 manuscripts found, some words were changed, mostly mispellings and stuff are also counted, there are very few changes that were made intentionaly. The changes are catogorized under intentional variations and unintentional variations. The amount of intentional variations out of the 24,000 manuscripts equal to about 50 variations that are actually important changes. The others are mostly just attempts to improve grammar. </p><p> </p><p>Out of an article by Don Stewart: </p><p>Unintentional Variations</p><p> </p><p>The scribes who did copy the text introduced changes. These scribal changes can be broken down into two basic types: unintentional and intentional. The greatest number of variants in the New Testament manuscripts are unintentional. They could creep into the text through faulty sight, hearing, writing, memory or judgment on the part of the scribe. </p><p> </p><p>Intentional Variation</p><p> </p><p>Some of the variations came about intentionally as New Testament scholar J. Harold Greenlee notes:</p><p> </p><p>These comprise a significant, although a much less numerous, group of errors than the unintentional changes. They derive for the most part from attempts by scribes to improve the text in various ways. Few indeed are the evidences that heretical or destructive variants have been deliberately introduced into the mss [manuscripts] (J. Harold Greenlee, Introduction To New Testament Textual Criticism, Eerdmans, 1964, p. 66).</p><p>Bruce Metzger expands upon the intentional variations:</p><p> </p><p>Other divergence's in wording arose from deliberate attempts to smooth out grammatical or stylistic harshness, or to eliminate real or imagined obscurities of meaning in the text. Sometimes a copyist would add what seemed to him to be a more appropriate word or form, perhaps derived from a parallel passage (Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, German Bible Society, Second Edition, 1994, p. 3,4).</p><p>The charge is often made that the text was radically changed by copyists. Again, the facts speak otherwise as Michael Holmes explains:</p><p> </p><p>Occasionally the text was altered for doctrinal reasons. Orthodox and heretics alike leveled this charge against their opponents, though the surviving evidence suggests the charge was more frequent than the reality (Michael Holmes, New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Editors David Alan Black and David S. Dockery, Zondervan, p. 103).</p><p>Summary</p><p> </p><p>With respect to the variations found in the New Testament manuscripts, most were unintentional. The few that were intentional consisted mostly of grammatical improvements. There is no evidence of any widespread altering of the text for doctrinal reasons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Modus, post: 1461350, member: 7666"] There is an article on my forum about the reliablity of the scriptures. Rest assured that the bible is extremely close to the exact words of the original authors. actually about 45 years. And yes, out of the 24,000 manuscripts found, some words were changed, mostly mispellings and stuff are also counted, there are very few changes that were made intentionaly. The changes are catogorized under intentional variations and unintentional variations. The amount of intentional variations out of the 24,000 manuscripts equal to about 50 variations that are actually important changes. The others are mostly just attempts to improve grammar. Out of an article by Don Stewart: Unintentional Variations The scribes who did copy the text introduced changes. These scribal changes can be broken down into two basic types: unintentional and intentional. The greatest number of variants in the New Testament manuscripts are unintentional. They could creep into the text through faulty sight, hearing, writing, memory or judgment on the part of the scribe. Intentional Variation Some of the variations came about intentionally as New Testament scholar J. Harold Greenlee notes: These comprise a significant, although a much less numerous, group of errors than the unintentional changes. They derive for the most part from attempts by scribes to improve the text in various ways. Few indeed are the evidences that heretical or destructive variants have been deliberately introduced into the mss [manuscripts] (J. Harold Greenlee, Introduction To New Testament Textual Criticism, Eerdmans, 1964, p. 66). Bruce Metzger expands upon the intentional variations: Other divergence's in wording arose from deliberate attempts to smooth out grammatical or stylistic harshness, or to eliminate real or imagined obscurities of meaning in the text. Sometimes a copyist would add what seemed to him to be a more appropriate word or form, perhaps derived from a parallel passage (Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, German Bible Society, Second Edition, 1994, p. 3,4). The charge is often made that the text was radically changed by copyists. Again, the facts speak otherwise as Michael Holmes explains: Occasionally the text was altered for doctrinal reasons. Orthodox and heretics alike leveled this charge against their opponents, though the surviving evidence suggests the charge was more frequent than the reality (Michael Holmes, New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Editors David Alan Black and David S. Dockery, Zondervan, p. 103). Summary With respect to the variations found in the New Testament manuscripts, most were unintentional. The few that were intentional consisted mostly of grammatical improvements. There is no evidence of any widespread altering of the text for doctrinal reasons. [/QUOTE]
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