05 September 2013

A Question for Chris Pinto

Anyone familiar with Mr. Pinto is likely aware of the recent controversy involving him, Alan Kurschner, and Dr. James White, so I'm not going to go into it. If you don't know the details, Google is your friend; I'd only recommend you set aside a bunch of time to catch up and consider all sides before making a judgement.

I posted the following on FaceBook, but I wanted to put an excerpt of it here too, in case I actually see a substantive response that I can record.
Mr. Pinto points to the Roman Catholic involvement in the Greek source text used in producing the ESV as one reason to distrust it. From what I've heard, he prefers the Textus Receptus (I haven't looked into it enough to call him TR-only). But the bulk of the TR is based on the work of Erasmus, a Roman Catholic scholar, which actually includes verses in Revelation which were back-translated from the Latin Vulgate, which was a translation commissioned by the Pope and produced by the Roman Catholic Jerome.

So my question is simple:

Why is the TR immune from question, when its connection to the Roman Catholic church is significantly stronger than anything related to the ESV?
Posted by Jason Coyle at 23:50

1 comment:

  1. Steven Avery12 December, 2013 06:28

    Hi,

    Mostly because the RCC turned against the Reformation Bible at the Council of Trent, and put the Erasmus works on the Index of Forbidden Books. (Index librorum prohibitorum.) Before Trent, Rome was open to cleansing the errors in the Latin using the Greek manuscripts, thus they supported the very fine scholarly work the Complutensian Polyglot.

    That is the short answer, it could be expanded by looking at the effect of works like "In Praise of Folly".

    Yours in Jesus,
    Steven Avery

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