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Today's question is, has the Bible been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, or tampered with?

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In this video I'll answer that question from a historical and biblical perspective. Then afterwards, as always,

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I'll share some helpful resources, so stick around until the end. The books of the

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Old Testament were written from approximately 1400 B .C. to 400 B .C. The books of the

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New Testament were written from approximately AD 40 to AD 90, so anywhere between 3 ,400 and 1 ,900 years have passed since a book of the

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Bible was written. In this time, the original manuscripts have been lost. They very likely no longer exist.

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Since the time the books of the Bible were originally written, they have been copied again and again by scribes.

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Copies of copies of copies have been made. In view of this, can we still trust the

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Bible? The Holy Scriptures are God -breathed and therefore inerrant.

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Of course, inerrancy can only be applied to the original manuscripts, not to the copies of the manuscripts.

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As meticulous as the scribes were with the replication of the Scriptures, no one is perfect.

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Throughout the centuries, minor differences arose in the various copies of the Scriptures. The vast majority of these differences are simple spelling variants, akin to American neighbor vs.

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British neighbor spelled with a U. Inverted words—one manuscript says Christ Jesus while another says

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Jesus Christ, or an easily identified missing word. In short, over 99 % of the biblical text is not questioned.

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Of the less than 1 % of the text that is in question, no doctrinal teaching or command is jeopardized.

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In other words, the copies of the Bible we have today are pure. The Bible has not been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, or tampered with.

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Any unbiased document scholar will agree that the Bible has been remarkably well -preserved over the centuries.

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Copies of the Bible dating to the 14th century AD are nearly identical in content to the copies of the 3rd century

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AD. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, scholars were shocked to see how similar they were to other ancient copies of the

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Old Testament, even though the Dead Sea Scrolls were hundreds of years older than anything previously discovered.

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Even many hardened skeptics and critics of the Bible admit that the Bible has been transmitted over the centuries far more accurately than any other ancient document.

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There is absolutely no evidence that the Bible has been revised, edited, or tampered with in any systematic manner.

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The sheer volume of biblical manuscripts make it simple to recognize any attempt to distort

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God's Word. There is no major doctrine of the Bible that is put into doubt as a result of the inconsequential differences among the manuscripts.

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Again, the question, can we trust the Bible? Absolutely! God has preserved

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His Word despite the unintentional failings and intentional attacks of human beings.

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We can have the utmost confidence that the Bible we have today is the same Bible that was originally written.

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