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Originally Posted by SolaGratia  Andrew,
So what greek text do you want for the WCF? |
Just like TR advocates, I am comfortable with minor variations. However, unlike TR advocates, I believe that the difference between the TR and the mainstream CT's consist only of minor variations.
As such, I'm personally happy for people to use the TR, a Byzantine Majority text, or the various CT's -- and would feel that each person has a copy of the "pure" Word of God, for some acceptable value of "pure". :^) I may feel the CT is a little better, but it's not that much better. Both are very, very good and sufficient to teach us everything we need to know about Jesus and living in his kingdom. The couple odd passages most textual critics believe don't belong there (angels stirring waters and so forth) don't affect major areas of doctrine.
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Thanks for the welcome, Thomas.
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Originally Posted by Thomas2007 Apparently, the learned men you respect would probably be insulted at your statement that their beliefs were "nonsensical." |
I don't think they believed that they had the text of the autographs letter for letter, word for word. This is a fine distinction we're talking about, but I will contend (until I find out otherwise) that they were aware that even TR printings differed a bit, and that it was possible that the TR needed correction here and there. They were not born yesterday.