Economic Analogy of Bibles
April 17, 2007
Here is an analogy from Dr. Letis that i found quite interesting…
(from The Ecclesiastical Text… pg. 82)
Like modern economics, while the gold standard may have been abandoned the printing of money continues, all the while being further and further debased.
footnote: The application of this analogy to the problem of modern translations can hardly be missed. If the original autographs are the gold standard, and they are now gone, all that can be left is the free printing of “Bibles” (like paper money), based on whatever standard of values a progressively cynical and secularized culture demands.
April 17, 2007 at 9:07 pm
So what is the gold standard now? The King James Version? If so, what was the gold standard before 1611? The Received Text? What was the gold standard before it was formulated? The Byzantine Manuscripts? Which of the Byzantine families is the gold standard then?
While I respect the Byzantine-priority position, arguments like the one Dr Letis employs are clearly fallacious.
April 17, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Dr. Letis has been one of the most interesting reads from a pro-KJV stance that i have read.
He is not KJV-only, and considers those of that mindset to be a cult.
He is definitely a proponent of the KJV, but not because it’s perfect…rather because it is the ecclesiastical text. Actually he is a proponent of the underlying Greek text (TR), i think he gave an endorsement to the KJV21.
I assume that his gold standard is the canonical text. The autographs were never part of the canonical text. The canonical text was not in existence until after the autographs were no longer around.
Perhaps our gold standard should be something other than the autographs since we don’t have the autographs to compare against. Perhaps it would be better to have something that actually exists as our gold standard?
Any thoughts on what that could be?
Again, Letis would probably argue for the “canonical text” to be the gold standard.