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REVISITING MY REFUTATION OF WACHTEL’S THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BYZANTINE TEXT: Is the Data Not Adequate?
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Until the printing press was invented in the Western world in the mid-15th century, all writings (including the New Testament books) could be reproduced only by copying by hand (a handwritten copy is known as a manuscript). Since no copyist (“scribe”) is perfect, differences at points in the text (“variants”) are found among the extant manuscripts[1]. The attempt to recover the …
DOES DIFFERENTIAL REPRODUCTION OF MANUSCRIPTS UNDERMINE THE MAJORITY TEXT THEORY? A Challenge Refuted
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Until the printing press was invented in the Western world in the mid-15th century, all writings (including the New Testament books) could be reproduced only by copying by hand (a handwritten copy is known as a manuscript). Since no copyist (“scribe”) is perfect, differences at points in the text (“variants”) are found among the extant manuscripts. Some manuscripts were copied very …
DID PROGEN AI SUCCESSFULLY IMITATE HUMAN EVOLUTION?
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. February 1, 2023. Wow. Three days ago, I posted about an article titled “Did Meteors Trigger Life on Earth?” I pointed out that the study in no way justified the headline, and I made the comment that it was quite common for evolutionists to publish articles with headlines that lead an unsuspecting public to believe that further support for the theory of …
DID METEORS TRIGGER LIFE ON EARTH?
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. On Friday, an article titled “Life on Earth triggered by meteorites 4.6 billion years ago: study” was posted on MSN.com[1]. One wonders what sort of study this was and how it could look back 4.6 billion years to determine what had happened back then. Let us see. According to the article, Life on Earth was triggered by blazing fireballs from the outer …
WHAT WAS THE COLOUR OF THE ROBE PUT ON JESUS? An Easy Solution to an Alleged Contradiction
© 2022, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. The Problem In Matthew 27:27-28, we read, 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around Him. 28 And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. On the other hand, in John 19 we read, 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of …
CORRECTING BART EHRMAN ON HARMONIZATION: A Risible Objection Refuted
© 2022, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Dr. Bart Ehrman is a former evangelical who turned agnostic[1] and now spends his time trying to debunk the truth of Christianity. Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has written or edited thirty-three books and is a soi-disant “world-renowned New Testament expert.”[2] He is considered to be one of the …
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IS 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-7 AN EARLY CHRISTIAN CREED TESTIFYING TO THE TRUTH OF THE RESURRECTION? Another Example of the Failure of Evangelical Scholarship
© 2020, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at …
FRAGMENTS OF ERROR: Creation Ministries International (CMI) Errs Yet Again on Textual Criticism
It is safe to assume that the various functionaries of Creation Ministries International (CMI) feel a great deal of frustration over the fact that their well reasoned arguments for young-earth creationism are not accepted by professing Christians who are supposed to view the Bible as the very word of God. Perhaps they are even more frustrated when such Christians do not even reject CMI’s arguments but ignore them completely, as if CMI were just whistling in the wind. If so, they can understand our frustration at CMI’s refusal to consider the facts …
DID JESUS ERR ABOUT THE SIZE OF MUSTARD SEEDS? A Case Study in How to Do Serious Evangelical Apologetics
In Mark 4:31, Jesus apparently makes a scientific error by asserting that the mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. But in the original Greek, He did not say that. He said that a mustard seed, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on the ground, not smaller than all seeds on earth.
WHAT ABOUT THE COMMA JOHANNEUM (1 JOHN 5:7b-8a)?
Although the absence of the Comma Johanneum in almost all Greek manuscripts strongly indicates it was not in the autograph, the Greek grammar indicates that it might indeed be part of the original autograph
CAN A CHRISTIAN VOTE FOR A MORMON?
God has appointed governing authorities, who may or may not be Christians, for specific tasks. Citizens, including Christians, have the right and duty to vote for the best possible candidate to lead their nation, which could be a Mormon such as Mitt Romney.
“THAT’S JUST YOUR INTERPRETATION!”: A Response to Dr. Thomas Howe on Understanding the Bible
Univocal propositional statements cannot be “interpreted” to mean something other than what the words and syntactical construction convey. If we can understand such statements made by people even though we are not infallible, we can understand God’s propositional statements in the Bible.
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REVISITING MY REFUTATION OF WACHTEL’S THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BYZANTINE TEXT: Is the Data Not Adequate?
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Until the printing press was invented in the Western world in the mid-15th century, all writings (including the New Testament books) could be reproduced only by copying by hand (a handwritten copy is known as a manuscript). Since no copyist (“scribe”) is perfect, differences at points in the text (“variants”) are found among the extant manuscripts[1]. The attempt to recover the[…]
