I could not help to notice that two Bible translations were quoted, to make your point.
Your original qoute was from the N.L.T.,then you quoted the E.S.V.? Post 62
As for the logical fallacy or reasoning for my comment on Westcott and Hort, was not to dodge the main topic.
It is common knowledge through many sources both of them did not hold the Bible as the living word of God.
1848 July 6th - Hort: "One of the things, I think, which shows the falsity of the Evangelical notion of this subject (baptism), is that it is so trim and precise...no deep spiritual truths of the Reason are thus logically harmonious and systematic...
the pure Romish view seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to, the truth than the Evangelical...the fanaticism of the bibliolaters, [Hort mocks those who believe the bible] ...still we dare not forsake the Sacraments, or God will forsake us...I am inclined to think that no such state as 'Eden' (I mean the popular notion) ever existed, and that Adam's fall in no degree differed from the fall of each of his descendants" (Life, Vol.I, pp.76-78).
1858 Oct. 21st - Hort: The positive doctrines even of the Evangelicals seem to me perverted rather than untrue...There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, and
especially the authority of the Bible" (Life, Vol.I, p.400).
1860 Apr. 3rd - Hort: "But
the book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with. I must work out and examine the argument in more detail, but at present my feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable." (Life, Vol.I, p.416).
1865 Sept. 27th - Westcott: "I have been trying to recall my impressions of La Salette (a shrine of Mary).
I wish I could see to what forgotten truth Mariolatry bears witness"
1865 Nov. 17th - Westcott: "As far as I could judge, the 'idea' of La Salette was that of
God revealing Himself now, and not in one form but in many." (Life, Vol.I. pp.251,252).
1865 Oct. 17th - Hort: "I have been persuaded for many years that
Mary-worship and 'Jesus'-worship have very much in common in their causes and their results." (Life, Vol.II, p.50). Source : Bible Ready .com.
Some would question the site the quotes are from,but there are many more with the same statements from Westcott and Hort.
So to ask a question: Is the Bible given by the Holy spirit for our sanctification or spiritual discernment?
Or is the Bible written by men who were under the guidance of the Holy Spirit,but the Bible it's self a text that needs multiple translations and knowlage of Greek?
If it requires knowlage of Greek what dialect?
Wickipedia:
The
Alexandrian text-type (also called
Neutral or
Egyptian), associated with
Alexandria, is one of several
text-types used in
New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of
biblical manuscripts.
The Alexandrian text-type is the form of the
Greek New Testament that predominates in the earliest surviving documents, as well as the text-type used in Egyptian
Coptic manuscripts. In later manuscripts (from the 9th century onwards), the
Byzantine text-type became far more common and remains as the standard text in the
Greek Orthodox church and also underlies most
Protestant translations of the
Reformation era.
Most modern New Testaments are based on what is called
"reasoned eclecticism", such as that of the
Nestle-Aland 27, in formulating a Greek text. This invariably results in a text that is strongly Alexandrian in character.
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It seems to me the Alexandrian text-type has the same attributes as our English.
As some say the King James English is outdated ,most certainly Greek evolved as well.
One major problem is the quality of the Alexandrian text,and the small number of writing 's found as well on scraped paper that was re used.
Wickipedia: Up until the 9th century, Greek texts were written entirely in upper case letters, referred to as
Uncials. During the 9th and 10th centuries, the new lower-case writing hand of
Minuscules came gradually to replace the older style. Most Greek Uncial manuscripts were recopied in this period and their parchment leaves typically scraped clean for re-use. Consequently, surviving Greek New Testament manuscripts from before the 9th century are relatively rare; but nine — over half of the total that survive — witness a more or less pure Alexandrian text. These include the oldest near-complete manuscripts of the New Testament
Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 and
Codex Sinaiticus (believed to date from the early 4th century CE).
What happened in the 4th century?
Wickipedia:
Christianity in the 4th century was dominated in its early stage by
Constantine the Great and the
First Council of Nicaea of 325, which was the beginning of the period of the
First seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787), and in its late stage by the
Edict of Thessalonica of 380, which made
Nicene Christianity the
state church of the Roman Empire.
So we come full circle, reformed but using the same text we reformed from.