Thread: Would you delete a copy of the Koran?
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Old 09-23-2010, 10:46 AM   #224
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
WT Sharpe is of course referring to modern scholarship. The ancient scholars who selected the NT canon did not have access to the tools of linguistic analysis that are now available. A person's choice of grammar and vocabulary is as distinctive as a fingerprint.
Yes I know. But, once again, WT Sharpe's statement is a logical fallacy. You cannot prove "virtually unanimity" of anything -- or any other statistical amount, even a majority (which I would highly doubt anyway).

He used the word "virtual" because he could not say "unanimity," as it only takes one citation to refute that (and I've already provided it, by citing Bruce Metzger).

It's a phrasing that made his argument sound strong. But in logical sense it is completely and utterly unsound.

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