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To: IMRight
This "hot-off-the-press" hypothesis can't be substantiated because we don't have any of these supposed copies nor do we have any report of them.

That is untrue, there were I believe over 6000 manuscripts of the NT found, complete, partial, and fragments, and most of these were those copies that each Church has made when an epistle was finisned.

1,678 posted on 10/21/2001 3:18:34 PM PDT by JHavard
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To: JHavard
This "hot-off-the-press" hypothesis can't be substantiated because we don't have any of these supposed copies nor do we have any report of them.

That is untrue, there were I believe over 6000 manuscripts of the NT found, complete, partial, and fragments, and most of these were those copies that each Church has made when an epistle was finisned.

I don't think you are responding to me, but it patently false that the manuscript copies are "those copies that each church made when an epistle was finished". We have virtually no copies that can even be traced to a century after the autograph copy. At best we have (other than scraps) perhaps a tenth generation copy of the original (not that I am implying any error in transmision, just denying that we somehow have originals or first generation copies).

In fact, I believe that the closest things we have to an actual complete copy of the NT are the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus(sp?) which date to the fourth century.

1,687 posted on 10/21/2001 4:15:48 PM PDT by IMRight
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Are you serious? .."6000 copies of the N.T.found, complete,partial,and fragments .."
That could mean 5990 fragments, 5 partials, and 5 complete .
Maybe you could clarify it a bit .
God Bless
1,702 posted on 10/21/2001 5:12:46 PM PDT by dadwags
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