Sinaiticus is a fake, and a plot by Tichendorf, in collusion with the Pope, which along with Vaticanus (also a fake), to "change" true Christian doctrine as found in the Textus Receptus, a reconstruction of the Mss used to translate the KJV, and essentially the same as the Majority text.
I've "read between the lines" here with the help of this web site:
http://av1611.com/kjbp/articles/waite-fourfold1.html
Doesn't this basically fall under the definition of a "conspiracy theory"? Quite a lot of "scholarly" ink has been spilled to prove many such theories, and if believed, would mean the earth is hollow, the space landings on the moon were faked, the holocaust never happened during WW2, and President Obama was a Muslim secret agent "planted" to replace US law with Sharia law.
To that I must add my conviction that
http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/view ... pot#p45077 etcIt is a well known fact ... that the term ["Crackpot"] is derived from the full titled name of a famous inventor, Commander Caractacus Pott, who was primary known for inventing the edible phonograph record. This and similar useless inventions earned him the nickname "Commander Crackpot". However, and this can no doubt be confirmed by an unbiased examination of the newspaper records of his day (2nd decade of the 20th century), he successfully developed a whistling candy treat, which became a local craze in the British Isles to the extent that Commander "Crackpot" became independently wealthy.
All this aside, "Crackpot" made some amazing and wonderful claims about the properties of an old race car, once owned by millionaire racer, Count Louis Zborowski, a chain-driven customized Mercedes with a 23-litre 6-cylinder Maybach aero-engine (the same engine utilized by the Nazis to power their heavy Tiger I tank in WW2), to wit, that it had a crusty personality and amazing abilities such as the ability to fly and cruise like a boat.
He had found the car in ruins in an old barn and bought it dirt cheap. Investing a goodly chunk of his whistle candy fortune into the vehicle's restoration, his mechanical abilities were enough to allow him to replace all the bells & whistles with genuine OEM parts, but his engineering skills fell short of letting him comprehend what they all did, or so he claims. The car allegedly told him by labels that would pop out of certain instruments that he should do this, or that, and called him an "idiot" for not figuring it out himself. In other words, the car was Mr. Pott's way of working out his frustrations over his sexual relationship with his spouse, Mimsie.
Now I must say, that as a rationalist, it is impossible for a roadster of that kind to fly in the air (despite the Maybach aero-engine), or swim like a boat (despite the Volkswagen made "Schwimwagon" that was to come in the late 1930s, an amphibious version of the Wehrmacht's equivalent of the US Willey's "Jeep", sold in the US in the 1960s as the VW "Thing" utility vehicle).These claims, I am afraid, must be taken on faith!
These additional factoids are noted to justify my rationalization that Commander "Crackpot" did indeed exist, flew over the traffic to the chalk cliffs of Dover, sailed to Calais France, found the hidden cache of munitions, ammunition and "Gelignite" explosives, owned by a certain super secret criminal organization of bank robbers and safe crackers. I also believe that the Pott family succeeded in blowing up the cache and earned the ire of the criminals all.
I also believe that the "Crackpots" saved Monsieur Bon-Bon, who graciously awarded the family with the recipe for making his world-famous "Fooj". So I pass on to you what has been received by me, that on the night in which Monsieur Bon-Bon was saved, his wife revealed the secret formula for his "fooj":
I can confess that in response to this formula as divulged by the historical account by Ian Fleming (published 1963), my family did truly make this fooj as described above. We cut it, and after reflecting deeply on our worthiness to taste such a delight, we did eat, and it satisfied our every need.1 pound granulated sugar
1/4 pound finest butter
1 tbsp water
4 tbsp unsweetened chocolate
1 small can of evaporated milk
1 tbps corn syrip
Put all the ingredients into a saucepan. Melt slowly on low gas until mixture thickens slightly and is absolutely smooth. Turn up gas and boil very quickly until it forms into a soft ball when a sample is dropped into cold water. Remove from heat and beat well with a wooden spoon. Pour the whole mixture into a flat, greased pan, mark in squares and leave to set. When cold, DEVOUR!
Yet some claim that Corn Syrup was not known, or known under a different name, in Jolly Ol' England at that time, suggesting that the account is an interpolation. However, I have secured, at great expense, a hardbound copy of said book, to prove it said what it is said to have said. And, for emphasis, I have the heavily carried teeth to prove that it was consumed. The work of experts has found that the corn "syrip" (syrup spelled to sound Frenchy) was not "high fructose" corn syrup, sometimes called "corn sugar" and a relatively recent invention, but plain old corn syrup like you'd use on your pancakes if you did not have maple syrup or molasses close to hand.
Do not confuse Fleming's account of the Potts family exploits, a true piece of historical narrative, with the screen adaptation, which made a mockery of Fleming's true account.
It is safe to say that the Movie of same name was created to make a mockery of the original pure story as given by the God-breathed author Ian Fleming and introduced many heresies into the true historical account. Any inability to find corroborating evidence in newspaper articles of the time are the result of the influence of organized crime, as the safecracker context, including the 'fooj', is conspicuously absent from the movie version.
DCH
Steven Avery wrote:Great questions.rakovsky wrote:How different are sinaicitus verses from other Bible versions?
What is the motive? Fame and cash?
The difference is fairly large, in terms of doctrine. This was hashed out in the 1860s when Porfiry Uspensky accused the text of being heretical, on issues like the virgin birth. That could be another discussion.
However, the signficance is not so much the Sinaiticus oddball variants, which are often rejected, especially singulars. The big signfiicance is how it became a Robin to the Vaticanus Batman in creating the Westcott-Hort recension (which is the foundation of all Critical Text editions since 1881). Without Sinaiticus it is safe to say that the recension would never have been accepted. (For this, you go into the turgid Hortian explanations and the scholarship reactions in the following years.)
Another significance is the abject corruption of the text. The thousands of errors and obvious corruptions, that are generally just ignored and passed over. It is scribally a disaster.
> Fame and cash?
In terms of the vain-glorious Tischendorf, these were clearly key motives.
The question of a hidden hand behind the Critical Text] is another element to be considered. Tischendorf's passport was found right outside the monastery in pristine condition.
The last line was edgy humor. However, there are a lot of strange circumstances, such as when Tischendorf had the ms. in his private hands with two unnamed Germans for months in Cairo in 1859. And the obvious colouring of the part that went to St. Petersburg. Rarely do you ever see such a clear smoking gun, since we have both BEFORE & AFTER of the colouring by lemon-juice available to us today.
Also, looking at what happenned before the ms. suddenly appeared at St. Catherine's is a fascinating project, however a lot of study there has to be conjectural, looking at things like Tischendorf's visits to the papacy, his later comment that he had Vaticanus available at the time, the comment of Hort about "rich materials", stuff like that.
Steven
