What Most Bible Readers Do Not Know
(1) Underneath every English New Testament version is at least one Greek Text Edition and sometimes
more than one, as well as departures from the text thereof due to personal concerns and preferences of the translator.
(2) The
content of any Greek Text Edition that underlies any given English Translation or Version is dependant upon personal choices and personal
preferences of the translator. Greek text editions were not written by the New Testament authors.
(3) Underneath every
Greek Text Edition are various numbers of copies of copies of Greek (and perhaps Latin) textual manuscripts (
(4) Any Greek
Text Edition is based upon a foundation of varying Greek
(5) No English Translation has any Original Manuscript or Autograph as its foundation.
(6) Greek Text Editions that underlie English NT Versions are based upon varying and different
(7) No Greek Text Edition has any Original Manuscript or Autograph as its foundation.
(8) No
Original Greek Autographs exist today and they have not existed for some 2,000 years.
(8) Nevertheless, Christian apologists
and writers will tell you that the NT text, in its Original Autograph and Original Language structure, is without error, without any
significant corruption, flawless, and inerrant. They will say that God’s Holy Spirit preserved these “inspired” foundational
NT texts and further, that the same Holy Spirit also made sure that the transmission of said texts to this very day was without error
and the Greek texts we have now are flawless.
And to make matters worse, Christian writers make these claims having never seen or studied an original autograph. As a result, the claims being made by Christian apologists of a flawless or “near” flawless text are without evidence and without basis in fact.
(c) Copyright 2007 F. Paul Haney
