(September 23, 2019 at 3:29 pm)mordant Wrote:(September 23, 2019 at 3:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Which we can't possibly know because we don't have the originals.
Boru
Yes and no.
We have good copies of the originals.
The bigger problem remains that the manuscripts are full of fabulist nonsense and not even those who profess to follow them, agree on WTF they mean.
No, don't have 'good copies of the originals'. Being very generous with the dates, the Gospels and the Pauline epistles were all completed no later than 110 CE. The oldest complete NT extant is the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates (probably) to about 350 CE. There is simply no reliable way to determine how many additions, deletions, interpolations, etc were conducted in the intervening two and a half centuries (regarding Paul's letters, at least - the case is even worse for the synoptics).
Boru
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