It's amazing how dishonest things like the intro video he showed are once you scratch the surface. "There are hundreds of thousands of variations!" Because we have thousands of manuscripts, and if one word gets repeated, we instantly get hundreds/thousand of variations, and with our glut of manuscripts, we know know what happened.
The beginning was a condensation of the opening of the book, "The Heresy of Orthodoxy" by Andreas Kostenberger and Michael Kruger - very important to see the connection between Walter Bauer, Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels.
Muslims and skeptics and atheists are constantly using these arguments and mixing more scholarly arguments with the pop-DaVinci Code type false ideas; and Roman Catholics use aspects of these historical arguments in their arguments that the Church decided the canon, rather the books having inherent power and pressing themselves upon the church to receive them, witness to them, affirm them, discern them.
His mistake about the 2 Clements needs to be corrected.
Also, the graphic of "books" in first century, IMO, should have been rolled up individual scrolls - there were no "books" (with a binding, etc.) in 1st to mid-2nd century AD - the codex (flattened out sheets tied together) became more normal and in use in mid to late 2nd century and 3rd century.
It's amazing how dishonest things like the intro video he showed are once you scratch the surface. "There are hundreds of thousands of variations!" Because we have thousands of manuscripts, and if one word gets repeated, we instantly get hundreds/thousand of variations, and with our glut of manuscripts, we know know what happened.
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DeleteTx steve!
ReplyDeleteOverall, that was very good.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning was a condensation of the opening of the book, "The Heresy of Orthodoxy" by Andreas Kostenberger and Michael Kruger - very important to see the connection between Walter Bauer, Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels.
Muslims and skeptics and atheists are constantly using these arguments and mixing more scholarly arguments with the pop-DaVinci Code type false ideas; and Roman Catholics use aspects of these historical arguments in their arguments that the Church decided the canon, rather the books having inherent power and pressing themselves upon the church to receive them, witness to them, affirm them, discern them.
His mistake about the 2 Clements needs to be corrected.
Also, the graphic of "books" in first century, IMO, should have been rolled up individual scrolls - there were no "books" (with a binding, etc.) in 1st to mid-2nd century AD - the codex (flattened out sheets tied together) became more normal and in use in mid to late 2nd century and 3rd century.