Hi Dick,
You wrote: I'll end with this and you can have the last word. (I learned
that sly technique from Glenn.)
Does that mean my last word was supposed to have been my last last word, or
does it mean my last word is supposed to be my next last word? Maybe I'd
better ask Glen.
I pointed out that Smith's Bible Dictionary tells us regarding Luke's second
Cainan: "It seems certain that his name was introduced into the genealogies
of the Greek Old Testament in order to bring them into harmony with the
genealogy of Christ in St. Luke's Gospel." And I said that, "Overzealous
copyists have done all sorts of things just like that over the years in
misguided attempts to help out God. One similar example that comes to mind
can be found in your King James Bible in 1 John 5:7,8."
You replied: That's why I defer to archaeologists and historians with the
date of
2900 BC for the flood. ... That's a good way to avoid the pitfalls of
"overzealous copyists."
That statement seems to say you believe that the Bibles we now have may
contain major copying errors which may make them entirely unreliable in some
important areas of study. I don't believe that is the case. I believe God has
now brought to light all significant corruptions which crept into some
ancient copies of the scriptures and into some modern Bible translations over
the years. This includes His making us aware of the fact that the second
Cainan which appears in nearly all late manuscript copies of Luke, and nearly
all modern translations of the New Testament, was not a part of Luke's Gospel
at the time Luke wrote it.
I believe that with the Bibles we now have, along with information now in our
possession telling us of the very few significant copying errors which they
likely contain, we are able to utilize the chronological information recorded
in scripture to assign actual historical dates to many of the most important
events recorded in the pages of the Old and New Testaments. I believe this
includes the chronological information that is recorded in the Genesis
genealogies.
Mike
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