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To: TheDon
Several hundred years of modern textual criticism of the Greek New Testament have demonstrated thousands of variants in the various manuscripts.

But those variants exist in the Alexandrian manuscripts as the differ from the Byzantine manuscripts that underly the KJV which Mormons ascribe to. Incidentally those Alexandrian manuscripts come from the same place as "Reformed Egyptian" --

42 posted on 06/24/2009 6:23:42 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
But those variants exist in the Alexandrian manuscripts as the differ from the Byzantine manuscripts that underly the KJV which Mormons ascribe to.

That's probably why Mormons have as an article of faith:
"We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly"

Is there anyone who believes differently?

44 posted on 06/24/2009 6:33:30 AM PDT by TheDon
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