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"Yuri Kuchinsky" |
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08 Feb 2004 12:38:50 PM |
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complete article ~ Did Jesus tell a lie? (John 7:8) |
Dear friends,
For those who might be interested, my complete study is now available
here,
http://www.trends.ca/~yuku/bbl/jn7jes.htm
This article is now in 5 parts -- over 10,000 words!
A copy of this webpage now follows.
All the best,
Yuri.
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DID JESUS TELL A LIE?
John 7:8 -- This Verse Reveals the Typical
Assumptions of NT Scholars...
All Modern Translations
of the New Testament
Portray Jesus as a
Deceiver!
a detailed investigation by Yuri Kuchinsky
Sure seems like our modern biblical scholars have
messed up this passage in a big way. Before the 20th
century, there was no problem here at all... And then,
on the thinnest of grounds, our modern textual
wizards have decided that the original Gospel of
John portrayed Jesus as deceiving his brothers! So
the scholars revised the traditional Greek text, and
thereby gave grounds to such a grave accusation
against the founder of Christianity.
And in order to do this, it seems like they had to
cook the books just a bit...
But what is really surprising about this
passage is how little attention it has received
among the mainstream scholars and
commentary writers in the recent decades. It
seems like nobody has really looked into the
textual situation with this passage -- what our
ancient manuscripts of John actually say
here -- for a very long time... So I am trying
to fill this void with the present study
(January 2004).
This is a very long article, so I broke it down into 5
parts.
Part 1 -- Here is the general
introduction to this problem, where
the basic situation is already
described in some detail... The
following parts mostly fill out the
particulars, and provide more
evidence for my conclusion that, in
the original John, Jesus was not
portrayed as a deceiver.
Part 2 -- Now we will be taking a
look at what the ancient Aramaic and
Latin manuscripts of John actually
say in this passage. Sure seems like
their evidence has been
misrepresented at least to some
extent in our mainstream editions of
the Greek NT.
Part 3 -- Some additional
misrepresentation by the UBS
Editorial Committee -- the scholars
whose responsibility it is to
determine how your gospels should
read in Greek. Unfortunately, it looks
like they have misrepresented the
Diatessaronic evidence, as well, for
this passage...
Part 4 -- It also looks like the
Editorial Committee neglected to
mention some very interesting
variants for this passage -- as found
in a number of ancient manuscripts
-- the variants that may well
represent the earliest text of John.
Also, a somewhat related verse John
7:5 is analysed briefly in this part of
my study.
Part 5 -- Finally, here I review a
recent article by Prof. Chrys C.
Caragounis, JESUS, HIS
BROTHERS, AND THE JOURNEY
TO JERUSALEM (JOHN 7:8-10),
that was published in Svensk
Exegetisk Arsbok 63 (1998). This is
the only in-depth textual study of
this passage that has appeared in the
last few decades... Prof. Caragounis
concludes that Jesus was not
portrayed as a deceiver in the original
Gospel of John.
I think this is an extremely revealing study.
The wilful blindness of our mainstream
biblical scholars, their all too evident
prejudices, their unwillingness or inability
to examine the hard textual evidence
objectively -- all this is now laid bare, I
believe... What arrogance had they shown
in rejecting the traditional Majority text of
the gospels -- as represented for us by the
King James Version of the Bible -- and by
replacing it with a newly minted version of
their own!
While, myself, I am a
supporter of the Aramaic
textual tradition of the
gospels, KJV/Byzantine text
obviously stands a lot closer
to the ancient Aramaic
gospels than anything
produced by our modern
"revisers".
So I fully agree with the following
statement by Dr. Wilbur Pickering. The
extremely corrupt and prejudiced textual
scholars of our day cannot be trusted in
revising the Scriptures. The modern
"Critical Text" of the NT -- that they
somehow managed to foist upon the
unsuspecting believers -- is not any sort of
an improvement at all... To the contrary, it
should be considered as an unqualified
disaster.
"The distressing realization is
forced upon us that the
'progress' of the past hundred
years has been precisely in
the wrong direction -- our
modern versions and critical
texts are several times farther
removed from the original
than are the Authorised
Version (KJV) and TR! How
could such a calamity have
come upon us?!" -- Dr. Wilbur
Pickering
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| User: "Matt Giwer" |
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| Title: Re: complete article ~ Did Jesus tell a lie? (John 7:8) |
08 Feb 2004 11:21:56 PM |
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Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
Dear friends,
For those who might be interested, my complete study is now available
here,
http://www.trends.ca/~yuku/bbl/jn7jes.htm
This article is now in 5 parts -- over 10,000 words!
A copy of this webpage now follows.
If it matters that he told a lie then you are talking religion.
--
Just for the record. Not one American is in Iraq to defend
or protect America nor any American. We will lie to them
when and if they come home but they did nothing for the
country or its people.
-- The Iron Webmaster, 3022
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