Further, youre the one that brought up the DSS as a way to validate that Christian thought has remained unchanged.
I should have been more clear here. The DSS validates the accurate transmission of OT through the centuries, which in turn validates a substantial portion of Christian thought as Christianity considers the OT to be divinely inspired. “The DSS doesn’t have anything to do with NT canon” is what I should have said.
Assuming that CNN is the RCC in your analogy, said analogy is highly flawed.
CNN has their own narrative and their own articles, but Fox (Eastern Orthodox Church) had their own writings (Byzantine Greek Texts), and these were never touched by CNN. Fox didn’t restrict access to their writings like CNN did, and eventually some of CNN’s staff caught onto the differences (Erasmus) and others found discrepancies even between CNN’s own material (Luther). They defected (Reformation) and made their own text (TR) based off Fox’s uncorrupted info.
The RCC never had a complete monopoly on all translations of Scripture. Their lies were found out; that’s why denominations other than the RCC exist.
The Nag Hammadi library is not the DSS. The former was found in Egypt in 1945 and the latter near the Dead Sea in 1946. They don’t have any content in common with each other.
Once again, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Even if the DSS contained texts written by gnostics, that is not necessarily an endorsement of those texts or a testimony of their accuracy. The DSS was simply a library of texts that the Essenes had. Most of the texts are just copies of portions of the OT (which match the later Masoretic texts) and small portions of their own writings. That they were stored together does not mean the Essenes weighted them all with the same religious authority, much like how some Christians today read the Apocrypha or biblical commentaries despite not holding to them as inspired scripture.
So even if Gnostic texts were found with the DSS, it still doesn’t prove your point, as it still would not imply that said texts were viewed on the same level scripture, the texts still date before Christianity, and all of this still does not explain the obvious contradictions between Gnosticism and the plain teachings of Scripture.
I should have been more clear here. The DSS validates the accurate transmission of OT through the centuries, which in turn validates a substantial portion of Christian thought as Christianity considers the OT to be divinely inspired. “The DSS doesn’t have anything to do with NT canon” is what I should have said.
Assuming that CNN is the RCC in your analogy, said analogy is highly flawed.
CNN has their own narrative and their own articles, but Fox (Eastern Orthodox Church) had their own writings (Byzantine Greek Texts), and these were never touched by CNN. Fox didn’t restrict access to their writings like CNN did, and eventually some of CNN’s staff caught onto the differences (Erasmus) and others found discrepancies even between CNN’s own material (Luther). They defected (Reformation) and made their own text (TR) based off Fox’s uncorrupted info.
The RCC never had a complete monopoly on all translations of Scripture. Their lies were found out; that’s why denominations other than the RCC exist.
http://www.compassdistributors.ca/topics/textchoi.htm
https://www.gotquestions.org/Textus-Receptus.html
The Nag Hammadi library is not the DSS. The former was found in Egypt in 1945 and the latter near the Dead Sea in 1946. They don’t have any content in common with each other.
Once again, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Even if the DSS contained texts written by gnostics, that is not necessarily an endorsement of those texts or a testimony of their accuracy. The DSS was simply a library of texts that the Essenes had. Most of the texts are just copies of portions of the OT (which match the later Masoretic texts) and small portions of their own writings. That they were stored together does not mean the Essenes weighted them all with the same religious authority, much like how some Christians today read the Apocrypha or biblical commentaries despite not holding to them as inspired scripture.
So even if Gnostic texts were found with the DSS, it still doesn’t prove your point, as it still would not imply that said texts were viewed on the same level scripture, the texts still date before Christianity, and all of this still does not explain the obvious contradictions between Gnosticism and the plain teachings of Scripture.