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53781 erased duplicate ... sorry bout dat.
   erased duplicate ... sorry bout dat.
monkeytrots   6TH POPE   02 Jun 2024
8:30 PM
53780 Re: The Narrative is not the Truth:
   Problematic ... for whom ? For you, definitely. Problematic in f...
monkeytrots   6TH POPE   02 Jun 2024
8:30 PM

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Re: The Narrative is not the Truth:

By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Sun, 02 Jun 24 8:13 PM
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Re: “Many have attempted to change the words, add to, or subtract from God's words over the centuries. Even the scholars involved in the original King James version were not without flaw.”
While I wasn't familiar with the "Textus Receptus," I did a quick search and found:

  Textus Receptus was published by Desiderius Erasmus in his 1516 edition of the Greek New Testament: Novum Instrumentum omne
  Textus Receptus was refined by Robert Estienne [Stephanus] in 1550
  Textus Receptus was further refined by Theodore Beza in 1598
  Textus Receptus was again edited by F.H.A. Scrivener in 1881

Sounds like there was lots of interpretation, translation, copying, editing... all the problems that make the Bible problematic. Not to mention that it came along about one and a half millennia too late. There's still the problem of WHICH Bible version to follow. There are more than nine hundred circulating today. Who knows how many others were thrown out long ago because, as you said, "Serious scholars rejected it, completely"? Rejected. Who are humans to decide such a thing? And who were the flawed humans who rejected Bibles they didn't like? Undoubtedly Catholics, in many cases. Probably others with agendas unknown.

I don't want to step on anyone's faith. For me, though, the Bible is a set of parables and information, but God must be found within oneself, not in any contrivance of man.