Arthur Farstad
From Textus Receptus
Arthur Farstad was a conservative Baptist and a former editor at Thomas Nelson Publishers, he received his two doctorates one at the University of Basel and the other at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Farstad served as General Editor of the New King James Version (1982) and co-editor of The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text. Farstad was a Teacher and Professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, he was also editor of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society.
Farstad began work on a modern English translation that was first named Logos 21. A Bible organization named Absolutely Free sponsored Logos 21 in 1996. Much of this work was later adapted by Holman Publishers, which contracted with Dr. Farstad to make a new, optimal-equivalence Bible translation that became known as the Holman Christian Standard Bible. The first edition was completed in 2003. Farstad agreed to join with the SS Board of the SBC, in their own project, incorporating his work with theirs, and He would become the overseer. Dr. Farstad intended to use the MT, which he had co-edited, as the textual basis for the NT. However, he suddenly died, a short while into the project, and the SS Board decided to use the UBS text, instead.
1 John 5:7
Dr. Arthur Farstad believed the Comma was not part of the original text:
- Dr. Arthur Farstad: The Trinitarian controversy with the Arian heretics, they would have adored this verse if it had been in their text. It would be a clear verse for the Trinity and they never once mentioned it. So if they had had it, you can see…
- Ankerberg: So the first councils back there in the 300s or 400s would have loved this verse.
- Farstad: They would have adored it. And, you know, we believe in the Trinity.
- Ankerberg: But they didn’t quote it.
- Farstad: They didn’t quote it because they didn’t have it. It showed up first in the Latin and then years later it was put in the margin.
(Excerpted from The John Ankerberg Show series entitled: “Which English Translation of the Bible is Best for Christians to Use Today?”)
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Eulogy for Dr. Arthur Leonard Farstad This is the actual eulogy delivered at Dr. Art Farstad's funeral on September 4, 1998 at the Mitchell Ministries Center at Dallas Theological Seminary.
