02-23-2011, 02:33 AM
dr p Wrote:@Judge: do you feel free to disregard the opinions of elder statesmen of the church?
Which elder statesmen? Please be more specific.
The elder statesmen of the Church of the East reject what the elder statesmen of the Church of the West say about this particular passage found in later manuscripts of your copies of the NT.
I trust those elder statesmen, based on their testimony and the evidence. Given the textual tradition of the West, I would not be surprised that this passage was indeed added later on.
Quote:If the majority of Christendom holds to a position, one would be well advised not to lightly dismiss it.
The majority of Christendom before 1100 AD was to be found east of the Euphrates river, and it was called the Church of the East. If we follow your reasoning to its logical conclusion, there would be a big problem with the P/A if you lived during that time.
Invoking the "majority" reason is rarely a valid scientific or scholarly response to an important question. All of your early scriptural versions in the West, and all of them to this day in the East, do not contain the P/A. The only valid conclusion is that it was added later on in the Western copies. It wouldn't have been the first, or last, example of artistic license employed by the western scribes.
+Shamasha Paul