Matthew 28:19

[gbausc]

Please don't tell me whom I am forgetting. I am writing with the audience in mind. I have little hope of converting you or changing your mind.

The scripture I give to defend Matthew 28:19 is Matthew 28:19 - 5500 times in 5500 manucripts.
100% of all mss. have the same reading. Any "Textual Critic" would easily ascertain this. Show me one Bible manuscript that reads differently. A "Textual Critic" is able to read the text in one or more ancient tongue and can identify the variant readings in the apparatus and understand what they mean. I have been doing that for 30 years, Dave. I can find no manuscript that contains "Baptize them in My Name" at Matthew 28:19.
Eclecticism, which I violently oppose, has at least the luxury of selecting a reading from among many manuscripts which is thought best. What you are proposing is beyond eclecticism; it is conjecture and invention.
If you think Acts contradicts Matthew, then you conclude Matthew is wrong ? How do you know Acts is right ? How do you decide ? Maybe all of Acts is wrong. Maybe everything is wrong. How would you know ?
Once you think you can "rewrite the books", as you suggested, then all bets are off and scripture is thrown out the window.

This kind of rewriting the NT started with The Gnostic,Marcion, in the second century. He decided only Luke's Gospel was scripture, and only those parts that he liked and agreed with, in a twisted version of his own making.
Once you start down that road, you end up denying God altogether, because it starts out by denying God: "Hath God said ?" is how all sin started and that is how it continues.

Do you have the authority to change scripture ? Scripture is Scripture, Dave.

Personally, I find no contradiction at all in the texts you quote. Many scholars have contended this gospel contradicts that gospel, and many arguments have been advanced in their support. I find them all ridiculous. Those who advance them are usually trying to defend their sinful life styles by discrediting God. It is a moral and spiritual problem. They are atheists at heart and practice, if not in theory.

I see no point in quoting more than the dozens of references I have already quoted, Dave; especially considering your willingness to trash scripture if you don't agree with it.

You cannot change one jot or tittle of Christ's word, neither can all the scholars and skeptics of all time in all the world.

It is not about scripture, Dave. Its about you.


Rev. Dave Bauscher