You cannot Trust the Bible because It has been edited | Rapp Report Daily 0094 | Striving for Eternity

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The Claim That the Bible Has Been Edited

Another argument that atheists make all the time, and it comes about in different ways, but basically what they're going to say is that the Bible has been edited, the Bible's been changed, something dealing with the fact that you cannot trust the Bible, that it's not reliable.

Why the Telephone Game Is a Bad Model for Scripture Transmission

And most often what they're going to argue is that the Bible came about like the telephone game. In other words, I tell one person something audibly, they hear it, maybe they mishear a word, they try to repeat a long sentence, they repeat it to someone else who repeats it to someone else, and so on and so on, and by the time you get to the end, it's very different than it started out.

Copying, Variants, and the Reliability of the Bible

Now often when people play the telephone game, they purposely forget things, but even if they're trying not to, the reality is the way we got our Bible is not the telephone game. In fact, the way we got the Bible is someone wrote it down, then someone copied it.

Now that's different than audible, because when they're copying it, they have something they can compare against. And when you have many, many, many copies, you have many, many, many comparisons that could be made.

Do slight variances or changes occur as people are copying? Yes, they do. That happens. The question is, does that mean that the message of the Bible cannot be understood? Does it mean that there's doctrines that we see in the Bible that are wrong?

As many of the atheists try to argue. Well, that's something we're going to look at tomorrow, and it is one of the more important issues that we need to understand. And if you want more detail, I encourage you to get my book, What Do We Believe, at whatdowebelievebook .com, and read chapter two on the reliability of our Bible, because it comes up all the time.

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