Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

New Testament Accuracy

February 28th, 2025
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New Testament is a collection of 27 scrolls (books) by nine writters in 20-50 year time period

Like significant literature of the day, we use surviving manuscripts to reconstruct the orginal 

There are more than 5,800 Greek manuscripts and 20,000 in our languages being full or parts of the Bible

Many were written soon after the orginals AD117-138

Many of the manuscripts were destoryed because of Roman persecution

Even if did have any manuscripts, we could reconstruct the new testament from the early church writtings. All but 11 verses of the new testament was quoted by them

Most other ancient works have fewer than a dozen copies and yet few historians question those works

It might be best that there is only the orginals, having many copies protects the text via copy confirmation - much like bitcoin

No other ancient book is so well authenticated - 99.5% accurate; .5% has no effect on a single doctrine


Key Phrase: Bible: No other ancient book is so well authenticated

Notes from: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Frank Turek.


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