Steven Carr

By the way, has anybody heard a Christian claim that a contradiction in the Bible is only a 'copyist error'?

http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=348 explains why there are copyist errors in the Bible.

'It is important to stress that the degree to which these manuscripts agree far outweighs the degree to which they disagree, and none of the discrepancies concern major theological issues. Nevertheless, both the Old and New Testaments have a range of variant readings scattered throughout. One reason for this is that scribes made errors as they copied the manuscripts across the centuries. The contradiction regarding Jehoiachin’s age is probably this type of error.

For a number of numerical discrepancies in the Old Testament, it is almost certainly this kind of copyist mistake that is responsible.'

Gosh, hasn't this guy read the memo saying that the DSS show the amazing care that people copied the Bible with?

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SC wrote:
Yes, this is goalpost #2. They revert to this when goalpost #1 is shown to be untenable, and move farther after that.

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