Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: Rikk Watts on Genesis 1

[Caroline Wong]

Both errors are likely. People could deliberately add words to bolster the text and make it sound better. In fact, Christians have been known to write whole books and letters and attribute them to Paul or John or some other Apostle. There was a lot of controversy and uncertainty so adding words make things more plain.   Biblical scholars were quite surprised when they found early manuscripts which did not contain lots of stuff like the ending to Mark or the story in John about the woman caught in adultery. Mark can be explained by saying the manuscript lost its ending but how do we explain John :-) We don't. We just put a note and say it's not in the early manuscripts. I like the story and I'm glad it's in my bible - even with that caveat.   If copyists lost words as they copied, the later manuscripts would have less words than the early ones.   Love,   Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: David Miller To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: Rikk Watts on Genesis 1 Caroline wrote: > Those 65,000 words were added and should be > removed so that what we have is the purer form.   Caroline, please think about this.  If YOU were copying the Bible for your reading later, what type of mistake would you most likely make?  Would it be more likely that you would omit words or add words?  Think about it.  Please tell me what your answer is.   Peace be with you. David Miller.