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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Like I said before, I find it highly ironic that we would turn such a blind eye to textual criticism since the issue of biblical translation errors is one of our articles of faith. You would think we would fully embrace it.
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I think there are some legitimate jitters about using textual criticism to analyze scriptures in a way that could have doctrinal impact. It would be tragic if the church were to embrace a version of a scripture based on textual criticism that later ended up being incorrect.
Intepretation of scripture is done via revelation, not academic exploration. I don't think the church opposes the latter, though, as YOhio points out. Just refuses to standardize on it.