The easiest hard objection
“The Bible has been copied and changed so many times we can’t know what it said.” In fact the New Testament is, by a wide margin, the best-attested document of the ancient world — more manuscripts, earlier copies, a smaller gap to the originals than any comparable text.
The facts (free preview)
- ~5,800 Greek manuscripts (~25,000+ in all languages)
- Earliest fragment — P52, c. AD 125, within a generation of the original
- Most variants are trivial; no core doctrine rests on a disputed reading
What’s in the full member PDF
- A numbers table (vs. Homer, Caesar) and the key early manuscripts
- An honest account of the variants — including the two openly-flagged passages
- Why the accurate claim is also the strong one
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