Thursday, August 29, 2024

Robert A. Sungenis on 78% of New Testament Passages Having Some Textual Variation/Corruption

  

An exhaustive investigation into a standard Protestant Greek text of the New Testament (Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelstiftung, 1979) reveals that of the 7,948 total verses from Matthew to Revelation, 6,176 verses contain textual variants. In other words, 78% of the New Testament verses are to some extent corrupted. The variations range from simple letters which change a word or its tense, to whole sentences which are either missing or significantly different. (Robert A. Sungenis, "Pont/Counterpoint: Protestant Objections and Catholic Answers," in Not By Scripture Alone: A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura, ed. Robert A. Sungenis [2d ed.; State Line, Pa.: Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc., 2013], 228 n. 54)

 

Thus, the arguments that Protestants levy against the survival of oral tradition beyond the first century, we can use the same type of arguments against the survival of Scripture beyond the first century, since, obviously, neither of them are pristine. (Robert A. Sungenis, “A Critique of Keith Mathison’s book: ‘The Shape of Sola Scriptura,’” p. 47)

 

 

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