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Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications. This is a ministry of striving for eternity.
The question that almost always comes up when dealing with atheists is something dealing with the reliability of the scriptures. And the sad thing is most of these people who make the claims that we can't trust the Bible don't know anything about what's called textual criticism, which is how we examine these edits or variances that occur in some of these copies.
Now, they will get their arguments from someone that is very learned and very astute, Bart Ehrman, but the problem is Bart Ehrman writes for the masses and there he makes conclusions that no scholar would accept.
When he writes the scholarly work, he's pretty good. But the reality is that when we look at the manuscripts, we have 7 ,000 to 8 ,000 copies of the New Testament manuscripts in different portions, several hundred copies since before Nicaea, by the way, which is important because people think the Bible was written in Nicaea in 300.
But the reality is we have copies before that date. Therefore, we have Bibles that were written before the Council of Nicaea. We have so many copies that what we can do is compare them to one another because it isn't a telephone game.
They were written down. And when we compare these things, even Bart Ehrman, who attacks Christianity very much, even he had to say in the first printing of his paperback edition of his book, stated that there is not one single biblical doctrine that is affected by any of the variances and copying errors that we have in these different manuscripts.
So what we do know is the Bible hasn't changed in its meaning. If you want to get more on this, get my book What Do We Believe at whatdowebelievebook .com and read chapter 2 about this.
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