Recently I was perusing the internet and came across this old discussion from almost 15 years ago. I had just finished my Masters of Theology the final paper of which was on Theology as the most certain science with an emphasis on Bibliology.
My interlocutors are mostly Baptists maybe even Independent Fundamental Baptists. The main interlocutor was and perhaps still is one of the moderators of the board. We ended up going back and forth from the end of September all the way up until Christmas.
It was my first meaningful foray into the epistemological side of the version debate, leaning less on the manuscript evidence in favor of my position and more on the distinctly Christian elements undergirding Christian belief in the Bible. When put that way, the interaction represented in this back-and-forth is in seed form what gave rise to my later PhD work.
Still, it is both fun and instructive (at least to me) to see how the argument was presented and how and in what ways it has matured. It is also, interesting to see how little has changed in the argument and in myself.
https://sharperiron.org/forum/thread-modern-scientific-textual-criticism-bound-or-independent
Blessings.
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