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The majority of manuscripts that have been discovered and catalogued in the past four hundred years agree more with the Textus Receptus than with the modern Nestle-Aland/United Bible Society (NA/UBS) text. The majority of these manuscripts, termed the Byzantine Majority Text by scholars such as WilburPickering, Zane C. Hodges, Maurice A. Robinson, are in the Byzantine tradition which generally agrees with the Textus Receptus...The NA/UBS text is highly edited, being a composite text of readings from Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, and other manuscripts, all of which disagree with each other in thousands of places (Wasn't the Textus Receptus based on just a few manuscripts? KJV Today)The NA/UBS text is based on Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus and disagree with the Byzantine tradition in thousands of places. Just because he only used a half a dozen manuscripts for the actual composition doesn't mean he wasn't aware of other variations, he had been studying them for years.
I would agree only that the Scriptures are canonical only in the originals. We do not have perfect copies but we do have the best preserved documents from the ancient world for the translations from the Hebrew as well as Greek Scriptures.
He based it on the Byzantine Majority Text, far more consistent with those 5800 Greek manuscripts then NA/UBS. I've never been KJV only and I have no serious reservations about consulting the NIV right beside the KJV. I don't see a dimes worth of difference between the manuscripts other then normal text variation effecting no essential doctrine or essential content of the narratives.
Mark Kennedy: << The NA/UBS text is based on Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus and disagree with the Byzantine tradition in thousands of places. Just because he only used a half a dozen manuscripts for the actual composition doesn't mean he wasn't aware of other variations, he had been studying them for years. >>
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Mark Kennedy: << He based it on the Byzantine Majority Text, far more consistent with those 5800 Greek manuscripts then NA/UBS. >>
Who is "he"?
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