Greer-Heard: Wallace's 2nd Response
Wallace closed the Friday night session by answering Ehrman's concern about why use essential/cardinal doctrines as criteria: because that was the criteria that Ehrman himself had set up in putting such possibilities front and center in Misquoting Jesus and Orthodox Corruption. It seems to be a criteria Ehrman himself had used in the past.However, moving on to Ehrman's other point, Wallace did think the variants mattered, even in the case of non-essential doctrine affecting variants such as Mark 1.41. Wallace pointed out that he felt it did make a difference, whether Jesus was angry or compassionate, and so the study of the variants remains significant.
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"Why study variants if they don't matter?"
He's kidding, right? Story:
A doctor informed a patient that he had cancer in his vocal cords. Really serious, advanced cancer. This form of cancer would affect his speech. No one would understand what he meant.
The patient got another opinion. The second doctor examined the patient's vocal cords carefully and said, "You have a slight throat infection. It may be irritating, but it is not cancer."
The patient returned to the first doctor and told him what the second doctor said. To which the first doctor said, "Well, why is that fellow practicing medicine in the first place?"
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