02-26-2010, 12:40 AM
Kara Wrote:Studying early Christianity (before the fourth century), for instance, we know that the Gospels were in constant flux.
No, we know that the greek versions were in state of flux. You have no evidence that this was the case with the peshitta.
Quote:We also know that before creating a canon of NT books, churches made subtle textual corruptions (one letter here, a word there), to justify their theological positions.
You , again, have no evidence that this happened to the peshitta ,in the period mentioned.
There are a lot of very polite patient posters here , but can you excuse me if I'm a little blunt here.
This is the whole dang pont!
The peshitta represents a different textual tradition!!!!
You cant lump it in with the contrary, mixed up, diverse, corrupt greek versions.
The reason we cant is because we dont have the evidence to do so.
If you can get this point, you will go along way to seeing the answer to your opening post.