use of OS by ancient Aramaic-speaking Christians

[Dave]

Before I answer your question, first answer this, what does this have to do with the Western Aramaic Churches stating that they weren't aware of the existance of the OS until it got discovered, and that Peshitto has been the text that won over all attempts at making new translations from the Greek?

Has nothing to do with that. You asked me this:

Why do you keep bringing up the OS as the most important text in the Syriac-Aramaic world. When the Western Aramaic Churches say that they weren't even aware of it existance until it was discovered?

You wanted to know why I felt this text was important, why I would chase after it when the historical evidence available was sparce or even non-existant throughout the ages.

I'm sorry, but I'm unable to "honestly" answer that without giving credit to the one who leads me onward in this. Why else would I do this Keefa? If I have no witness from above throughout my search, then I'm only relying on guesses, theories, and historical data from men, which is a poker game to rely on.

Let everything be establish by 2 or 3 witnesses. My witness and confirmation in all things is from above. Let GOD be true and all men false. I will trust Him only, in this. I refuse to totally trust any man in this endeavor because the information and data has been tampered with throughout the ages by mankind, in all camps. A witness and confirmation from above must be the defining factor for me, since I know better now. For me to "turn-aside" from this sort of insight would be detrimental later on when we answer for our deeds. To just weight the odds and choose a particular text that I wanna trust or think that I can, is witnessing to myself, and my witness would be false.

Behind every text lies the original writings that satan went out of his way to try and stomp out, just because Jesus boldly declared that His words would not disapear. I'm looking for the cleaner text that was copied nearest to the original, that is witnessed to me this way. I don't care if it is in greek, aramaic, or whatever. Once I have done what I'm suppose to do in that sense, then He will lead me into another area that will help. So forth and so on.

You wanted to know why, and I gave you why and how. Now, care to answer my question? I feel it is very important.