RE: Bart Ehrman destroys Christianity in under 12 minutes.
June 30, 2016 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2016 at 7:15 pm by Jehanne.)
(June 30, 2016 at 10:56 am)Aractus Wrote:(June 30, 2016 at 8:33 am)Jehanne Wrote: This paragraph is just false:
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily...ompassion/
Did Jesus get "angry" or did he have "compassion"? Big difference, if you ask me!
Just because a variation exists (there's literally at least one variation per word in the NT due to the large number of Greek manuscripts, with most of those being differences in spelling or grammar) doesn't mean it casts doubt upon the original wording. But look, let's assume this a genuine case for an un-knowable original wording of Mark - it's not a big deal. It's less significant than the number of the beast because the meaning of the passage is not substantially altered. You might think it's a "big difference" - but it isn't. Mark describes Jesus taking action and rebuking others out of anger in several other places in his gospel anyway. Anyway that's besides the point, AFAIK it is believed the text originally read "indignant" as is indicated by the fact that the 2011 version of the NIV uses that as the basis for their translation, and it would therefore be the version found in Novum Testamentum. Given that it's an Evangelical translation that would prefer to be influenced by evangelical theology (one of my criticism of it), for it to include that variation over the "compassion" version would lead me to believe that Bart and the other textual critics decided that's how it was originally written in Mark. Therefore they do know what it said with a reasonable degree of confidence, and it's not a matter for petty debate, or an unsettled matter as is Revelation 13:18's number of the beast.
Maybe a 1st century manuscript, if any exist, will shed light on the matter. Fact is that there are some passages of the New Testament that everyone agrees were not in the original texts (the end of Mark after verse 8, the Johannine comma, the Pericope Adulterae, The Testimonium Flavianum, and some others), which shows that Christian scribes had no qualms about altering historical texts, inspired or not. In addition, no one disputes the fact that about half the letters of Paul (the Pastoral epistles) were not even written by him; ditto for the epistles of Peter and the three letters of John.
