Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Observations from Another Layman

 Irrelevant hamster - but cute.

Hello Pastor Jackson

I just watched your video "Two Approaches to the Biblical Text". The audio and sound quality was good. The video froze several times, this may be related to my connection speed. I reduced the quality from 1080p to 360p and this ended the freezes.

In the video you made the observation that Vaticanus and Sinaiticus are deemed by modernists as the only reliable source-texts for the Bible, yet there are many differences between the two codices.

I believe the many differences are part of their appeal to liberal Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars. Both Rome and liberals have an interest in propagating the idea that the Bible is fully of errors and inconsistencies, and hence there is a need for "experts" (the majesterium of the RC church and liberal text-critics among Protestants) to reveal to Christians what the Bible "really says". Compare this to the Majority Text, which has a consistent historical background. 

Attacks on the principle of the Biblical inerrancy have been part of RC church policy since the Council of Trent. What better way for the RC church to destroy Biblical inerrancy (and sola scriptura) than to concoct two very different Bibles, deem them the oldest and most reliable source-texts, and lure liberal Protestant scholars into accepting them.

Any document produced by the RC church should be suspect, given the RC church's 1500 year history of shamelessly forging source-texts.  

 Thanks for all you do,