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More Proof The Traditional Text (Textus Receptus) Is of Apostolic Origin
Compiled by Dr. David L. Brown
Higher Criticism of the Bible is a frontal assault upon God’s Words!
Ever since this diabolical theory of dealing with God’s Word(s) was
introduced in Germany in the 18th century, the Traditional Text of the
Bible, which underlies our King James Bible, has been under attack.
Higher criticism treats the Bible as a text created by men. Their
presupposition is that the Bible is a conglomeration of works by unknown
authors and editors which was assembled and modified at the authors
desired. They assert that the Bible has not been carefully preserved and
therefore the Bible cannot be entirely authoritative. In particular they
reject the texts that underlie the King James Version of the Bible,
claiming that those texts are of a much later date, an editorial
“recension” or revision of the earlier true text. They promoted that lie
that there were NO early manuscripts from the Traditional Text. The so
called Alexandrian and Western texts were older and better.
Here is the problem. Professor Merrill M. Parvis of Harvard wrote. “The
Textus Receptus (also known as the Traditional Text and Ecclesiastical
Text) is not the ‘true’ text of the New Testament…” He went on to admit
however, “The Textus Receptus is the text of the Church. It is that form
of the text which represents the sum total and the end product of all
the textual decisions which were made by the Church and her Fathers over
a period of more than a thousand years.”
I submit to you that the Textus Recptus always has been the New
Testament used by the
Chruch! My contention is clearly supported by
biblical evidence recently examined by Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede,
Director of the Institute for Basic Epistemological Research in
Paderborn, Germany. I should note, that Dr. Thiede is not TR supporter!
Dr. Thiede examined three New Testament fragments (The Magdalen Papyrus
donated to Magdalen College in Oxford, England) that were originally
acquired in Luxor, Egypt in 1901. In 1953 they were dated to about
180-200 A.D. However, Dr. Thiede carefully redated them and placed the
at 66 A.D., making them the ONLY first century New Testament fragments
extant.
However, this was only the beginning. Using a very technical and
accurate epiflourescent confocal laser scanning microscope, he found
that the Matthew 26:22 fragment revealed the Textus Recutus reading! It
head “hekasotos auton,” every one of them, as the King James reads as
opposed to “heis hakastos,” each one [one after another], as the
critical texts read.
This fragment clearly documents the antiquity of the Textus Receptus
text to the time of Peter, Paul, John the Apostle, etc. Increasingly,
the recension theory is being exposed for the lie that it is!