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Originally Posted by Timmy
Right. And since we don't have the originals, there's no way to say, definitively, which of the copies are correct, if any, when there is a discrepancy. If most scholars agree on something, does that mean it's true? There was a time, so they say, when most "scholars" thought the Earth was flat!
Don't get me wrong. I have a lot of respect for Bible scholars and their research, and they probably are correct when there is consensus. But still. There is always going to be some doubt, isn't there? And there are many discrepancies in the texts we have today. But I suppose not many of those have a major impact on important doctrines.
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Actually it was most philosophers and thinkers that thought the world was flat and they did that partially through misunderstanding of what the bible says I think...
However it was not through scientific observation that the did that. There is a scientific method to textual criticisms. The stuff about the comma is not done on a whim. There are valid reasons for it