12-22-2007, 12:14 AM
Dave said;
"Occam's Razor applies here quite nicely. Either a scribe invented and added the story and managed to foist it on the Western churches as inspired and as John's work, or someone inadvertently left it out when copying a manuscript. Which is the simplest explanation?"
OR.................The other 5 Books were produced *much later* than the Eastern P'shitta N.T. text that The Assyrian Church of the East had been given by the hands of the Apostles themselves.
You left this possiblity *OUT*.
Shlama, Albion
"Occam's Razor applies here quite nicely. Either a scribe invented and added the story and managed to foist it on the Western churches as inspired and as John's work, or someone inadvertently left it out when copying a manuscript. Which is the simplest explanation?"
OR.................The other 5 Books were produced *much later* than the Eastern P'shitta N.T. text that The Assyrian Church of the East had been given by the hands of the Apostles themselves.
You left this possiblity *OUT*.
Shlama, Albion