01-14-2013, 08:21 AM
Burning one Wrote:[snip]
personally, i know all too well about the misuse of the variants and mistranslations of the Greek manuscripts. i know what they do to people of both strong and weak faith. in my own walk, many years ago i entered the arena of textual criticism, wanting only to know the true Word, the valid inspired text, and came out doubting and confused over WHAT was inspired even more than when i entered. my faith in HIM was not shaken - but my faith in the inspiration of the Word was severely troubled. it was in the aftermath of that event that i started looking seriously at the claims being made by those in the Peshitta-Primacy community, and in doing so, my faith in the inspiration of the Word was thoroughly restored and validated. pouring over Greek manuscripts and textual apparatus details, with a copy of the East Peshitta Aramaic text at hand brought solace never found elsewhere. i want others who might be troubled in similar ways to have the same restoration of faith in His Word. HE is trustworthy, and because He is, we can ultimately trust that His Word will be, as well.
blessings!
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy,
Exactly. I also went into that arena. But as Daniel B. Wallace, a Greek primacist said, and I agree with that, we should avoid the extreme positions. The first to be avoided position is that we have the infallable text. The other is that nothing in the text can be trusted.
In the Peshitta, we find also find 'harmonisations' or a few distortions, (however for the sensitive among us, the Peshitta grammar is flawles, compared with the Greek).
For instance, the prayer, 'our father in heaven' has a long ending, which is probably 'smoothed' and has an addition of out of the OT (Matthew 6:13) because the ancients found it strange to let a prayer end with the word 'evil', like in Luke 11:4.
However, a lot of the inspired Word, like in the OT, has some redundancy correction built in. To me, this all is a great inspiring work to do. To many others, who have heard too much propaganda against the Bible, not really helping. <!-- s
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