Jehovah's Witnesses
I'll say it again...go do some research on Wescott and Hort and see who they REALLY were. BTW, make sure a google a picture of Charles Taze Russell in his funeral garb! That should give you a start clue about what JW' think, believe and do.
And they have a very sly way of trying to get you to THINK they believe Christ is God, but they don't really believe that.
Also, Wescott and Hort had an issue with blood sacrafice for the remission of sin. Do some leg work on that. They didn't like it, so their Greek manuscript was rewritten to "fix" that!
I did a little poking around.
It seems to me that unless one is a Greek scholar himself we are still dependent on what other people tell us about which text to use.
And, while the majority isn't necessarily right about everything in life, I have to wonder what "most" people who know say about the text they came up with.
I'm not so interest in Westcott or Hort's personal "interpretations" of what the thing says or their beliefs.
I would be more concerned with whether they were accurate in the text.
Scholarly in their handling of the thing.
If that makes sense?
Here's a link I found.
This person doesn't seem to like them very much.
But I'm not sure what he means by this.
Maybe you can explain it.
i.e. What is this "evangelical" teaching verses the Catholic "regeneration"?
Westcott and Hort: Fathers of modern Bible versions.
Hort's "Baptism"
Dr. Hort also believed that the Roman Catholic teaching of "baptismal regeneration" was more correct than the "evangelical" teaching.
"...at the same time in language stating that we maintain 'Baptismal Regeneration' as the most important of doctrines ... the pure 'Romish' view seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to, the truth than the Evangelical."106
He also states that, "Baptism assures us that we are children of God, members of Christ and His body, and heirs of the heavenly kingdom."107
In fact, Hort's heretical view of baptism probably cost his own son his eternal soul, as we find Hort assuring his eldest son, Arthur, that his infant baptism was his salvation:
"You were not only born into the world of men. You were also born of Christian parents in a Christian land. While yet an infant you were claimed for God by being made in Baptism an unconscious member of His Church, the great Divine Society which has lived on unceasingly from the Apostles' time till now. You have been surrounded by Christian influences; taught to lift up your eyes to the Father in heaven as your own Father; to feel yourself in a wonderful sense a member or part of Christ, united to Him by strange invisible bonds; to know that you have as your birthright a share in the kingdom of heaven."108
