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Originally posted by DaveJes1979
OK, JerusalemBlade. I have noted your recent polemics against critical/eclectic texts, but this sort of apocalyptic rhetoric against critical editions is far, far off-track.
You want to frame this debate in terms of theology and presuppositions, yet you don't seem to notice that there are many inerranist Christians - who are both Reformed and presuppositional - who hold to the critical method. WTS, WSC, RTS all use Nestle-Aland or UBS Greek Texts and BHS Old Testaments. Dallas Theological is the only place I can think of where the Majority Text is promoted (and this still doesn't get you to the Textus Receptus anyway).
Greg Bahnsen himself had to put Andrew Sandlin in his place some years ago over these sorts to attacks on the eclectic texts: http://www.kjvonly.org/other/dr_theo...theonomy-L.htm
James White has also deflated the "ecclesiastical text" rhetoric from Doug Wilson: http://www.credenda.org/issues/10-1disputatio.php
We can affirm God's providential hand in preserving the genuine text of the Bible, even if we believe He has done so through varying manuscript traditions.
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My dear brother,
I am hoping to engage JB on this at some point, but the time necessary to honestly engage the issue simply has not been mine for the taking. (For those who may wonder, I still have no update on my liver problems).
However, your post does have one error: the notion that Dallas Theological Seminary is a Majority Text school. In fact, not a single faculty member in the NT Studies department - where I am a major btw - holds to the MT.
Now I think what you might mean is this: DTS has been at the forefront of producing graduates who worked on the Majority Text and have held that position. Wilbur Pickering, Alfred Martin, Zane Hodges were all DTS students and the late Arthur Farstad was an instructor here.
DTS has also produced its share of KJV Only advocates including David Otis Fuller and Donald A. Waite.
But the MAJORITY (just had to say it) of DTS grads are CT folks. Even though Hodges taught at DTS from 1959 until 1986 - and he taught both Greek and textual criticism - the Majority Text view has always been the minority view at Dallas.
Hopefully, I will have time to interact soon with some of JB's data. He sent me Van Bruggen's book - I'm still not an MT advocate, but I read all I can on the subject.
God bless,
Maestroh