In my overview of the responses to my book The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture in the Afterword I wrote of the 2nd edition, I began to address some major questions.  In the book I argued that scribes of the New Testament intentionally changed the text in places in order to make it more orthodox in its theology or to circumvent its use by “heretics” who had other views.  That raises a question:  are scribes who change the text to make it say something different actually *authors* instead of mere copyists?  Here’s how I discuss the issue at the beginning of my Afterword.

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