Comments on: What We Know About the Bible that Ain’t So – 3 http://richardekelly.com/blog/what-we-know-about-the-bible-3 Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: tom sheepandgoats http://richardekelly.com/blog/what-we-know-about-the-bible-3/comment-page-1#comment-176 tom sheepandgoats Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:10:01 +0000 http://richardekelly.com/blog/?p=229#comment-176 The last 12 verses of Mark and the ‘adultery’ verses of John are spurious. How do you know that? Is it not because Bible manuscripts were widely circulated (for evangelizing purposes) and a comparison of the thousands that have been found makes it possible to spot just what is spurious, also where and when it was introduced? The King James Version, 400 years old, runs these verses without commentary, but translations of the last few decades typically highlight or footnote them in some way to alert the reader. Certainly the New World Translation does so. Moreover, while the Watchtower magazine appeals to the scriptures to make any number of points, they never refer to the verses you’ve mentioned, unless it is to point out they are spurious. Would that errors in other ancient writings were so easy to spot and rectify. The last 12 verses of Mark and the ‘adultery’ verses of John are spurious. How do you know that? Is it not because Bible manuscripts were widely circulated (for evangelizing purposes) and a comparison of the thousands that have been found makes it possible to spot just what is spurious, also where and when it was introduced? The King James Version, 400 years old, runs these verses without commentary, but translations of the last few decades typically highlight or footnote them in some way to alert the reader. Certainly the New World Translation does so. Moreover, while the Watchtower magazine appeals to the scriptures to make any number of points, they never refer to the verses you’ve mentioned, unless it is to point out they are spurious.

Would that errors in other ancient writings were so easy to spot and rectify.

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