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JW:
The purpose of this thread is to inventory significant editing in the first gospel, GMark. Apologists commonly argue that editing of the Christian Bible is relatively minor in significance. From the best known Internet Apologist, JP Holding:
Is any matter of the Christian faith affected by any variant reading?
This thread will demonstrate that JP Holding is wrong. Editing of GMark not only affects "doctrine of Christianity" it affects some of the most important doctrines.Is any matter of the Christian faith affected by any variant reading?
This is the most important issue for the average believer, and the good news is this: No doctrine of Christianity is in the least dependent on ANY textual variant.
Significant Variant #1:
My favorite significant variant and one that Christianity traditionally fails to identify is that GMatthew and GLuke are themselves primarily editing of GMark. In my now famous Mark's View Of The Disciples Thread I demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that "Mark's" (author) primary purpose was to discredit "The Disciples" as witnesses to "Mark's" Jesus. "Matthew" and "Luke" (authors) edited "Mark" to rehabilitate "The Disciples" as the witnesses to their Jesus.
I know that some Skeptics think that my saying that GMatthew and GLuke are evidence of significant editing in GMark is technically not correct and they have a point. But in the context of a discussion of significant editing of GMark I think that not pointing out that GMatthew and GLuke are actually mostly an editing of GMark with the nefarious purpose of trying to rehabilitate and convert "Mark's" supposed witnesses of his Jesus into credible witnesses is as misleading as saying that white Jewish officials must have murdered an unarmed Christian in Messiurhi because all white Jews are prejudiced against all Christians armed with the holy spirit.
Joseph
EDITOR, n.
A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.
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