Majority Text position Exposed and Debunked
Using a Majority text vs minority text summary terms is not a good summary terms for three reasons.
1) The Majority Text position thinks that whatever a majority of manuscripts say is right, but that is not always the case with verses and manuscript copies. For example, God preserved the Law (Genesis to Deuteronomy) in one copy in 2 Chronicles 34:14-16, 18 that was read to and impacted King Josiah in 2 Chronicles 34:18-22 so much that he sent messengers to inquire of God from 2 Chronicles 34:22-28 and that he read the book of the law before and vowed to obey and before the gathered nation of Judah, subsequently obeying the book of the law, in 2 Chronicles 22:29-31 by demolishing the abominations.
Also consider that Acts 8:37 and 1 John 2:23 and 5:7 are quoted by early Christian pastors in 100-400AD, despite being in some mansucripts
The majority text position and term is bad because the majority text denies certain verses not found in a majority of manuscripts.
Thus the majority text position denies that God can and has used even a few manuscript copies or one manuscript copy to preserve his words.
So the majority text term does not factor in the fact that God preserved and preserves ALL of his words forever as per Psalm 12:6-7 and Matthew 24:35.
2) the Majority text has four conflicting texts, the 1982 Hodges and Farstad Text, the 2005 Byzantine Majority Text, 2018 Byzantine (Majority) Greek text, and The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2013.
The majority text puts man as the final authority on what God said as the majority is not always the best or reliable in all cases (look at all evidence on a verse, not just a majority or minority of manuscripts only. Evidence for verse authencity includes ancient translations, early quotations, early references, even partial damaged or halfway ripped manuscripts, early Christian books, and more)
3) finally the majority text does not have all of God's words, because it omits words that are quoted by early Christians and that have some, not majority, manuscript support.
The majority text position deny 1 John 5:7 and other verses's authencity (despite being quoted by many early Greek and Latin speaking Christians and in the Old Latin Bible of the 2nd century AD) 1 John 5:7 is Scripture, no matter how many modern versions deny it.
In sum, the 3 flaws of the majority text term and postion is:
1) It does not factor in both the preservation of God's words and his ability to use one manuscript copy to preserve His Word.
2) The Majority Text term and/or positon puts man, not God, as the final and only authority of deciding which words go into subsquent manuscript copies and Bible in relation to the manuscript lines
3) The Majority Text does not have all of God's words.
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