The Worst Email Address Typo in History

I’m teaching on the canon of Scripture tonight at Crossings Community Church. I put this together for the class. Hope you get it!

C Michael Patton

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11 replies to "The Worst Email Address Typo in History"

bethyada
2011-02-23

Textual variants presumably?

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Rob
2011-02-23

Yep, I don’t get it 🙁

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Donnie
2011-02-23

Luke,”So what are the books?”. Timothy, “I can’t tell.”. Luke, “You can tell me, I’m a doctor.”. Looks like Paul shouldve spent more time in keyboarding 101.

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Mike
2011-02-23

Gives new meaning to the term scroll.

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cherylu
2011-02-23

And I thought I was bad about making typos!

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bethyada
2011-02-24

I assumed it was related to the fact the letter to the Ephesians does not have “Ephesians” in some variants.

Though I wonder if Michael is saying that it would have been helpful for the Apostle(s), eg. Paul, to give us a list of the canonical books. There is no list, it comes from various considerations of every book/letter. Though the cartoon implies (facetiously) perhaps there was a list but got lost due to a typo.

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bethyada
2011-02-24

(And then Paul was executed so couldn’t check it got to Tim)

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JoanieD
2011-02-24

To those of you who don’t get it….Paul wrote “con” instead of “com” in the address to Timothy, so poor Timothy would never have received the email.

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Danquo
2011-02-24

I figured that, but it’s unclear as the FAIL punchline mentions @ephesusbible.con — as opposed to the original address of @ephesusbiblechurch.con.

Either way, funny.

The question I want to know is, if Paul had email available, was there no video chat that he could use to communicate to the churches? Would have avoided a shipwreck and snakebite!

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Tom
2011-02-26

How could Paul know what books were to be in the NT?

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Lisa
2011-09-01

If God exists, why doesn’t he just e-mail us?

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11 replies to "The Worst Email Address Typo in History"