How We Got Our Bible

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How We Got Our Bible

• Session Four Textual Criticism

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• God loves you. Furthermore, he has always loved
  you. However, you are a sinner. You have done
  things that violate Gods law in your thought and
  actions. For that, the punishment is hell.
  Fortunately, God sent His Son Jesus Christ, who
  was fully God and man, to die on the cross and
  bear Gods wrath for your sin. By placing your
  faith in Him for your salvation you can be saved.

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• God loves you. Furthermore, he has always loved
  you even before the beginning of the world.
  However, you are a sinner.! You have done
  did things that violate Gods law in your
  thought, speech, and actions. For that, the
  punishment is hell eternal separation from
  God. Fortunately, no comma God sent His Son
  Jesus Christ, who was fully God and man, to die
  on the cross and bear Gods wrath for your sin
  sins. By simply placing your faith in Him
  alone for your salvation you can be saved.

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The Task of Textual Criticism
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First, the bad news

• No autographs
• Hundreds of thousands of variants

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• Below are quotations from KJV 1611 A Conviction,
  not a Preference, page 1
•     You are tired of hearing about old
  manuscripts, Greek and Hebrew debates, and
  endless explanations of why such and such a word
  in the "original language" had a "root the
  meaning of which is.... or hearing that some word
  or verse is "unfortunately translated" in the
  King James....     And, you are really not
  interested in Alephs, uncials and codices,
  whatever they are.    What you really would like
  to know is if there is a Bible, somewhere, that
  you can read in your language, that you can trust
  in every case, and is all between one set of
  covers. 
•     Right?
• Here is relief!
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• In these pages you will find simple, common
  sense, easy to understand and impossible to
  refute reasons proving ....
• www.LandmarkPublications.org

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Now, the good news

• The Types of Variants (from Lightfoot)
• Trivial variations which are no consequence to
  the text.
• Substantial variations which are of no
  consequence to the text.
• Substantial variations that have bearing on the
  text
• The Date of Manuscripts (pp. 15-16 of Greenlee)
• The Number of Manuscripts

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N.T. Compared With Other Ancient Works
New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Josh McDowell
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The Tools of Textual Criticism
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The Techniques of Textual Criticism