#Sinaiticanus

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

Alright, I'll start because I've been honestly looking: I believe the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible and the Textus Receptus documents of the Greek NT, both used in the King James Bible, are the true and accurate words of God, for fair and sensible reasons.

I have not heard one good argument in favor of the Dead Sea Scrolls (recently-discovered extant manuscripts in Greek and Hebrew, used as the textual basis for all modern translations) that doesn't rely on secular 'if its dated older, its better' methodology. (A believer in the Word would hopefully know that God promised us His Word, to be USED, not hidden away in a cave, and we can't have had the wrong Bible for the last two thousand years.) I would also accept an argument that explained why older IS better, from a Christian worldview.

(This goes for the Sinaiticanus and Vaticanus texts, which gain most of their validity from the older Dead Sea Scrolls in the secular scientific practice of textual criticism.)

I have heard no good arguments for why we should trust the Nestle-Aland New Testament, compiled in the 1920s by unbelievers and with over twenty-five editions (meaning the """Word of God""" has been revised every four years on average in its mere hundred-year lifespan).

I have seen not one single proponent of any other single translation. It's just 'all translations are the word of God uwu' no its not. It's a translation. If you want the Word you need to learn Greek at least, if not Hebrew and also, while you're at it, Aramaic.

(I am not saying you should learn Greek and Hebrew, though. The most you need is to learn modern English. (YES, the KJV is modern English. It was translated within a few years of Shakespeare's works, and together the two make up the foundation of modern English. No, it's not a fifth-grade reading level like CNN is, and no it doesn't use pop-culture terminology, but it is NOT Old English. OLD English is incomprehensible to modern ears.) But I won't go further in this post as to why I believe in the KJB.)

I would LOVE to hear good answers to these. I feel as if I've only heard one side.

If you argue that 'there are no differences/they don't matter' know that I will be educating you (which I am willing to do) not the other way around (which I am also willing to do).

But don't bother to reblog if you are going to say 'but it's too hard to read!!!!1!!1!' If you want the Word you'll have to work for it, whether you learn Greek or put up with longer sentences (in actual English) than you're used to.

"You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do."

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) American economist.