(July 3, 2012 at 6:28 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(July 2, 2012 at 11:33 pm)Godschild Wrote:
If you're supposing that the originals were inevitably contaminated by the extra verses anyways then that doesn't really help your situation. The end result is that we still have these writings with many people's thoughts included in them.
There's definitely some work that has been done to weed out the additions, but with no surviving orinigals there's only so much one can do.
Why do you believe that the additions are a contamination to scriptures, if those few additions did not hold up to the rest of scripture they would not appear in scriptures, why, because the whole book would not have been accepted. Why do you think so many writings were not included into scripture, they contained ideas that were not supported by scripture.
There are many books written today about Jesus and they are not contamination of scriptures they are teaching aids.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.