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I am trying to understand what debate over what is called the Ecclesiastical Text issue is all about.
I hear James White has serious issues with the Ecclesiastical Text.
I am hoping to get some feedback here on the issue. I understand that there are a lot of Christians upset with James White on this issue.
What do you think?

A simple search on Google will give you LOTS of results which you can sift through.

Here is one Lutheran's perspective: The Ecclesiastical Text Versus the Critical Text

I had never heard of the Ecclesiastical Text. Is it just another name for the Majority Text? The resource used by the KJ Bible.

Pilgrim
It isn't that I haven't read up on the matter a bit. It is just that as I try to look at the banter back and forth, it almost goes right over my head.
I noticed that on another thread you said something to the effect of this particular issue has been debated for a long time. But one thing you are sure of is the issue of formal equivalent vs. dynamic equivalent.
Like you, I am not a fan of the dynamic equivalent.

Reading through several sites I did notice several things I think I understand. For example, those who favor the Critical Text, say that a long ending to the book of Mark is is false; despite how popular it has become.
If I am not mistaken James White believes a long ending to Mark is questionable at best. To which at least one critic, says White is contributing to unbelief in the Bible.
Another issue is whether or not God preserves just the original manuscript, or whether that translates into the English. Many who are King James Only advocates, believe that God only preserves the KJV of the Bible. They make it sound like those who disagree are in serious error.
Not everyone who believe in the Majority Text, as opposed to the Critical Text, go as far as KJVOists.
Tom

Would anyone have anything to add to what I said?

Kjv used Textus receptus, as majority text is different text in many ways!

Those of us such myself who argue for the priority of the so called Critical text, would not be saying that the Bible is not inerrant/inspired as KJVO critics claimed, but that the original texts did not follow some of the passages as the TR/Majority text supported them happening, such as Woman caught in adultery, long ending mark, and 3 witnesses in 1 John!