Variant readings in the New Testament!
By:
Shahid Bin Waheed شاهد بن
وحيد
بسم الله
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رب العالمين
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نبينا محمد صل
ا لله عليه
وعلى آله
واصحابه
وازواجه
اجمعين -
امابعد
All the praises and thanks
be to Allaah, Sustainer of the Universe, and blessing and salutation to be the
most distinguish of the Messengers and foremost among the Prophets, our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of
Allaah be on him and on his wives, children and Companions.
One notable quality of the Greek uncial script was its lack of
a separator, between adjacent words as well as sentences, even though
separation between words had been used previously in Hebrew writings, and was
therefore not unknown. This flaw resulted in a divergence of meanings or
rather interpretations for certain verses. Among the most serious example of
this is Manuscript p 75 (Bodmer Papyrus
XIV-XV) ¹, where John 1:18 can be read as either an only one, God, or God, the only begotten.
There is an obvious profound difference in the two choices; the latter implies
the existence of a Trinity, while nothing in the former supports the absurd
notion of Trinity. In fact, the literal translation is ‘a unique God’, though
it is never given as such {P. W. Comfort, Early
Manuscript & Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books 1990, p. 105} We find similar serious problem in John 1:34; John 7:53-8:11 {ibid, p. 107 & 115} One can go on citing the entire New Testament, however, the
main dilemma of Christians is that they cannot present the evidence that what
was the mother tongue of Jesus. We learn through the authorative
Christian sources that are in absolute disagreement with each other, about the mother tongue of Jesus.
What
was the mother tongue of Christ?
Christians have no conclusive evidence about the mother tongue of
Christ, since documentation of his full saying never existed. Thus, the dilemma
of Christians’ ignorance is that their scholars disagree about the tongue
Jesus’ sayings may have been uttered in. The gospels and Christian writers from
early age to present have failed to provide any answer with certainty. Among the guesswork of early scholars in this
regard, there is:
The
above facts are the direct cause that resulted in creation of different text
types in the Christians’ cock-and-bull story AKA New Testament,
to be exact these different text types (poles
apart from each other) are:
Adding insult to injury, Paul had
admitted that Only
Gospel of Christ is TRUE & other Gospels Are FALSE, as we read that Paul admitted in his Epistle (Gal 1: 6-7) to the
Galatians:
|
001:006 |
I
marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel: |
|
001:007 |
Which
is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ. |
The above
statement of Paul is revealing three important facts:
1.
There was a
Gospel of Christ, during the time of the disciples of Jesus.
2.
There was/were
other gospel/s that was/were different and contrary of the Gospel of Christ.
3.
There were some
people who wanted to distort and change the Gospel of Christ.
This, in conclusion the facts cited above from the Christian sources clearly proves the variant readings of New Testament not to mention that all four canonical gospels are full of variant readings, but it also absolutely proves the invalidity of New Testament as the Gospel of Jesus, according to Paul; since New Testament is based in four gospels (1) Gospel according to Mark (2) Gospel according to Matthew (3) Gospel according to Luke (4) Gospel according to John but no Gospel of Jesus and/or Gospel according to Jesus.
Saturday,
February 26, 2005