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Which mss did the pastors of the church through the ages use for their preaching, teaching and counseling?
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This to me is really the heart of the issue today. It is not so much between the versions themselves such as the NASB, KJV, NKJV, NIV, ESV, RSV and so on, but the heart of it comes down to as Pastors what MSS are we going to go to in our Greek studies?
I am an NASB users and like to use the NA27 in my Greek studies. Recently though I came across some discrepancies that really bugged me between the NASB/NA27 and the TR/Majority text. Words/phrases have been dropped from the NASB without notation or cause. I understand that numerous verses had been bracketed and noted as not being in earlier MSS, but I always thought they made note on every difference between the NA27 and the TR/Majority text. That is not the case. There were over 60 plus verses with words/phrases dropped for no reason or changed without notation.
The main question I keep coming back to is why would God allow the TR/Majority text to have been the MSS of choice for hundreds of years though bibles like the Geneva and the KJV and then in the early to mid 1900's come back and say that He wants to change things and reveal a different set of MSS that remove and change verses?
Now I remind you that I am a huge NASB fan so this is really tough for me to consider, but when I see so many differences between the NA27 and the TR/Majority text it really begins to bother me and I have to ask what shall we do with two different MSS? Which one do we go to as the finnal authority on a verse with so many differences? Is it the MSS version that came out in the early to mid 1900s or the one that has been around for hundreds of years?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.